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Problem when redirecting original feed to Feedburner

When I started redirecting user from my generated Atom feed to Feedburner feed I noticed that the Google Webmaster started showing error for the submitted sitemap. Later I found the Google Support Link addressing the issue @
 http://support.google.com/feedburner/bin/answer.py?hl=en& ;answer=97090&topic=13188&ctx=topic

You can submit your feeds to Google webmaster as a sitemap for better indexing by Google and keeping them informed of your feed. Once you use Feedburner then you promote your feedburner feed URL, but if your user knows about the original feed then you need to redirect your user to the feedburner feed only as told before.

The problem is that the Googlebot too will be redirected to your Feedburner feed resulting in an error in your sitemap report. Personally I generate the Sitemap with latest Links and so I deleted my atom feed from the submitted sitemap without much problem. You cannot use feedburner feed as sitemap (mentioned in the above link). The only option is to give Google Webmaster the correct feed url which does not redirect. This could only be done if you have an  alternative hidden feed file as mentioned in Redirect Users from original atom feed to feedburner feed. Hope this helps someone.