FeedBurner is undoubtedly one of the better RSS feed service. Its got some nice features that make your feed power packed. However, remembering the new Feed address provided by FeedBurner is not very easy for the visitors. feedproxy.google.com/yourfeed is a bit tedious to recall.
Wont it be better if you could have something like feeds.yourblog.com
I’ll now tell you how you can achieve the above said address by changing a setting in your feedburner account.
Sign-In to Feedburner, head to My Account and then to My Brand.
Create a CNAME entry in the DNS records for each domain name.
If you want to host your feeds at the feeds subdomain (this is the most common choice, like feeds.domain.com), your CNAME entry should be:
feeds CNAME xyz.feedproxy.ghs.google.com.
Enter your feed-specific domain names. Example: feeds.mydomain.com
Make sure feed subscribers are subscribing to your burned feeds through your MyBrand domains. Doing so makes sure your personal domain (and brand!) stays front-and-center.
In the end, DO redirect traffic for any original feeds to your MyBrand domain(s) and feed addresses if those feeds are already publicized. If not, don’t worry about it google will do it automatically.
Note : It can take up to 24 hours for a new CNAME entry to take effect.
Related posts:
- View your RSS feeds as a ticker scrolling across your desktop
- How to add a fixed-auto-scroll RSS Feed icon to your blog
- What is RSS Feed
- 5 Best RSS Feed Reader Applications for Android
- 5 Best RSS Feed Reader Apps for iPhone
- Use GMAIL with yourname@you.com
- Search for Domain Names, Company Names And Online IDs Easily Using NameCheckList
- Google Sets $5 Signup Fee for Chrome developers
{ 3 comments… read them below or add one }
Hey nice info
but subscribers dint need to remember your’s or ny1′s feed address its google reader who takes care of oll these..
so y we have to change it
Ur rite mate, but nowadays no1 bothers to remember or look at the name of website and u except them to appreciate or remember ur feed address..ahh
nyways its nice but not useful…
Let’s say your mobile phone number is very bad. It has no sequence, all arbitrary numbers.
Would you like to buy such a number when you go to select a prepaid connection although all your friends have your contact saved in their address book they dont need to remember your number but still you like to have a good number. Dont you?
Its similar here too! What’s more appealing? http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CallingAllGeeks OR http://feeds.callingallgeeks.org ?