Using Feedburner’s Tools With Your Domain (Freedburner MyBrand)

by Paul Colligan on June 11, 2008

Just a quick tip.

We all love Feedburner and can’t get enough of what they have to offer but … I never like putting too much power into the hands of one other company.

Awhile ago Feedburner instituted a program called “MyBrand” that would let you use their service with your domain. Perfect win/win and it kept everyone honest. Was well worth the price too.

Well, since Google purchased Feedburner, the MyBrand feature has been free.

Most don’t use it – because I’m going to guess that they don’t know how to set it up.

This video should solve that.

(click the Full Screen icon on the embedded video to get high-quality full screen video of this)

So, yes http://feeds.feedburner.com/ThePaulColliganBlog is the same thing as http://feeds.podcastpartnership.net/ThePaulColliganBlog

BTW, if you’re not the embedded video type and need to click through, feel free to view the video at YouTube, MySpace, Metacafe, DailyMotion, Blip.tv, Veoh, Crackle, Stupid Videos, Sclipo, Howcast or 5min.

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  • Frank C. Tannehill
    Feedburner just followed the trend set by Google. We've all heard that soon we will be able to use Gmail or Gtalk with our own domain name. I won't be surprised if other services will do the same thing as Google and Feedburner.
  • Matthew,

    Good eye.

    Sadly it's just the simple fact that the first few thousands of subscribers came in before this option was possible so I never worried about moving accordingly.

    Probably should at some point.

    But on new projects, I always do.

    Paul
  • Matthew
    Paul, what I don't understand is, Why aren't you practicing this yourself? Your feed still gets directed through the feedburner URL.
  • Dave, the plugins will still send people to

    feeds.feedburner.com/whateverpodcastyouwant

    If anything happens to feedburner, you are so far up a creek, it isn't even funny

    but with this you can start pointing to

    feeds.yourdomain.com/whateverpodcastyouwant

    now, worst case scenario - you don't lose your audience

    just making sure all the "t's" are crossed in this one.

    paul
  • Paul,
    You know you're the man, but to me I always wonder what the difference is between my brand amd the feedsmith plugin?

    If my website is www.myswebsites.com/feed I can install feedsmith plugin for worpdress, which redirects everything to feedburner so I can count subscriptions. If feedburner goes bye-bye, I turn off the plugin, and my subscribers are none the wiser.

    Your way is feeds.yourwebsites.com
    My way is www.yourwebsites.com/feed

    Am I missing something? I'd much rather play with a plugin than play with a cname at hostgator. (not as easy as it is at godaddy.com)
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