Webmaster alert: Check your Feedburner feed blog-links!

A number of you out there have websites and blogs, so this is something you may want to test if you are using Feedburner for your blog's RSS feed. Google has recently (last few hours perhaps) began appending Google Analytics type of tags to blog-post links in Feedburner-created RSS feeds. When one of your readers clicks on your blog-posts to visit your website, your web-servers/blog-servers may not be configured to accept these as valid urls and your readers may get an empty page instead of the actual page.

The easiest way to check if you have a problem is to go to an RSS reader (eg Google Reader) and click on the blog-links of your own blog-posts. If they do not load correctly on the newly opened browser window, then you probably need to take action. I'm sure if you check on webmaster forums or the google-support forums others will be having the same issue.

If we notice any websites with this issue, we'll try to send emails to their owners/webmasters.

Here is an example, using Google Reader and the RSS of this crazy blog:

Actual blog url
http://www.1001noisycameras.com/2009/11/exciting-new-camera-from-leica-coming-at-photokina.html

Url "decorated" by Google's services via Feedburner through RSS news readers
http://www.1001noisycameras.com/2009/11/exciting-new-camera-from-leica-coming-at-photokina.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+1001NoisyCameras+(1001+Noisy+Cameras)&utm_content=Google+Reader