Taking Back the Feeds!
- Posted by Badi Jones on November 7th, 2007 - Comment on this Post »
As of today, SEOlogs feed is now available at feeds.seologs.com/seologscom instead of feeds.feedburner.com/seologscom. This is thanks to FeedBurner’s MyBrand Service, which lets you use your own domain name to host your RSS feed instead of using the feedburner domain.
MyBrand was initially a pay service ($3-$14/month depending on the number of feeds), but now, it’s now totally free.
The MyBrand section was sort of hard to find. It’s located in the My Account link at the top of the page when you log in.
Setup is really easy, and only involves adding a new CNAME entry to your DNS setup. It’s basically like making a subdomain of your domain, and forwarding it to feeds.feedburner.com. For those of you who are domain gurus, this will be a cinch, but others may need to get tech support involved.
As I mentioned in The Danger of Giving up Control of your Feed, I think FeedBurner is a great service, but I also think it’s really important to have full control of your own content.
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November 8th, 2007 at 7:38 am
Thanks for the news. I had seen it, but I didn’t want to spend money on a feed. But now it is free and it’s time to use that.
November 8th, 2007 at 8:50 am
Yes. It took me a little while to realize it was free too. Free. Thanks to Google.