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1. iowagirleats
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   I am having the strangest problem - I am subscribed to both of my website's feeds in Google Reader:

   rss2: iowagirleats.com/feed
   FB: feeds.feedburner.com/iowagirleats

   Why I'm able to subscribe to both is beyond me - I though gettting feedburner wouldn't allow anyone to sign up for my rss2 feeder - but that's another issue that I can't figure out.

   Anyways - sometimes when I publish a post, my feedburner feed updates right away, but my rss2 feed sometimes takes hours or even days to update. Do you have any idea why this would be?? If you type in iowagirleats.com/feed it will re-direct to the feedburner feed, so you'd have to subscribe to it in Google reader to replicate the problem.

   Help!

2. Otto42
   Moderator
   Posted 2 months ago #

   Your "iowagirleats.com/feed" link just redirects to the feedburner one. So they're the same feed. Subscribing to both of them in a reader is pointless.

   Google Reader gets redirected too, like anything else. It's not special. The only reason it would be different is that it doesn't check the feeds at the same time. Simple as that, really.

3. iowagirleats
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   It's not pointless though, because people are able to subscribe to both and the rss2 feed is literally taking hours to update after the feedburner one does. I don't understand how this could be so, if the feedburner feed is "fed" off of the original rss2 feed?

4. Otto42
   Moderator
   Posted 2 months ago #

   Google Reader doesn't magically know when to pull your feed. It doesn't get your updates instantly. It pulls the feed on some regular schedule. Let's say it's like every 12 hours.

   Now, you have two different URLs. You update them both at the same time. However, the schedule on which Google pulls those two different URLs is not the same. It's off by a few hours. So Google pulls one, and those people using that one see the new content. Then Google pulls the other (even though it's the same) and people using that one see the new content.

   In other words, just because the content is new doesn't mean Google has looked at it recently. It's not displaying your content in the reader directly from your site. It caches the content, checking back for new content every so often.

   Note: Turning on "PingShot" in FeedBurner will help this out and make it slightly faster, as FeedBurner uses PubSubHubbub as a notification service, allowing clients like Google Reader to see changes quicker.

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