Using Feedburner’s Tools With Your Domain (Freedburner MyBrand)
Posted on 3:12 pm by Paul ColliganJust 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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2 Comments »
June 17, 2008
Dave Jackson said:
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)
June 17, 2008
Paul Colligan said:
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