FeedBurner - What Used To Be Paid Is Now Free
FreeBurner for Everyone
Now that Google owns FeedBurner, they’re on a quest to expand like mad and take over the RSS world. What is the best way of doing that? How about offering what used to be a paid FeedBurner service for free? Well, that’s exactly what they did.
Beginning today, two of FeedBurner’s previously for-pay services, TotalStats and MyBrand, will be free. Not in the sense of soaring high above the clouds or recently sprung from the hoosegow, but free like you’ll no longer gladly be billed on Tuesday for a burned feed today.
FeedBurner Stats PRO
FeedBurner Stats PRO give you access to the number of people who have viewed or clicked individual content items in your feed and “Reach,” which estimates the daily number of subscribers who interacted with your feed content. You can turn this on by signing in to your account, navigating to the Analyze tab and heading to the FeedBurner Stats PRO section. Click the “Item Views” checkbox to activate these PRO features.
MyBrand
MyBrand allows you to private label your feed URL. For example, rather than using feeds.feedburner.com/MyFeedName, a MyBrand feed address would be MyDomainName.com/MyFeedName.
To get started with MyBrand, sign into FeedBurner, click the “My Account” link in the upper left-hand corner, and then click “MyBrand”. Nota Bene: You must be comfortable playing around with DNS entries and own the rights to the domain whose DNS entries you’ll be playing around with in order to successfully activate MyBrand.
Current PRO customers will not be charged for the last month or any future months. Once you activate either features you will receive a “PRO” badge next to your feed.
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Now that is a good news. Thank you for sharing this.
Reply to this comment27.8% of blogs that I subscribe to have posted about this today. Good news certainly spreads fast!
Reply to this commentIndeed, i just wonder if they knew before Google even decided what to do with that future. Just kidding
Reply to this commentI bet they had their drafs done and ready to publish
Reply to this commentBut wouldn’t you say that bad news spreads faster?
Great news for MyBrand and TotalStats supporters, definitely.
Reply to this commentDefinitely is good news, I love Google lol
Reply to this commentwell, sounds good
Reply to this commentEvery time I start to think Google is getting too big and powerful, they win me over with free goodies like this
Reply to this commentGoogle has making money from free products down to a science.
Reply to this commentYes, and I expect to be fb prostats integrated with analytics sooner or later; and associated with the google user as well.
Reply to this commentGreat! (Google is trying to take over the world. :evil:)
Reply to this commentGreat news !
Reply to this commentI think they are WAY beyond trying…
Reply to this commenttake over the world? far from it
Reply to this commentYou think so? They seem to be doing a pretty good job to me. Watch out Microsoft.
Reply to this commentI just wrote a post about this!
http://slyvisions.com/files/free-FeedBurnerPro.html
I’m really looking forward to MyBrand. I just emailed FeedBurner about activating mine and it should be available for me soon.
Reply to this commentwell, congrats
i’ve not put feedburner on my site yet, but i think it’s time to do so.
hopefully, you’d see it on my site on your next visit…
Reply to this commentBy using their MyBrand feature, will we have to change the feed URL manually on associated programs?
Reply to this commentthat’s a good question; I’d suppose that both adresses still work, but I don’t know for sure yet.
Reply to this commentYeah, this is a question I’m trying to figure out as well. With all the blogs and plugins I run on each of them that have something to do with the RSS feed, that would be a bit of a pain in the arse to go around changing.
Reply to this commentThat is so cool that Google would do this, I am kinda surprised they just didn’t let it be. Now it makes me think what else are they going to do to help improve feedburner for the users.
Reply to this commentit’s good that google took fb over
hopefully, many better free services will be available soon
Reply to this commentGreat news! Thanks John 4 info.
Reply to this commentReady to sign up feed burner, Thanks
Reply to this commenti will sign up too
Reply to this commentThat’s awesome
Reply to this commentThanks for the update. I don’t have any subscribers yet, but when I do this info will come in handy.
Reply to this commentThis story is spreading like wildfire on the internet. Lets hope other big sites start offering free stuff!
Michael
Reply to this commentThis is great news! Google = love
Reply to this commenti don’t the john would agree with you on the equation
Reply to this commentSweet! One good thing about Google owning Feedburner.
Reply to this commentthere will be more to come, hopefully
Reply to this commenti already seen the news at TechCrunch.
Reply to this commentSweetness! I love playing around with feedburner, but I never tried any of the paid services.
Reply to this commentSame here; I was always fascinated by feedburner. Was just not too happy about paying for their services.
Reply to this commentJohn,
As usual… Thanks. I have just started with feedburner and i did not this.
Reply to this commentGreat!!
Reply to this commenthey thanks for lettin me know
Reply to this commentHey, right as I was fixing to pull the trigger and pony up for the Pro service. Thanks Google!
Reply to this commentGreat news! I sent an email to be a MyBrand user
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Reply to this commentThis is sweeet! Way to go Google! I am now a pro user!
Happy 4th everyone!
PJ
Reply to this commenthttp://www.pilotjohn.com
Free is good.
Reply to this commentthanx a lot for the great review john , Google’s feedburner is really good news …the brank google rocks …
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Reply to this commentjohn wouldn’t too happy hearing it, certainly not when google is banning his roaring train….
Reply to this commentI assume if we switch to mybrand the existing feedburner.com link will work as well right?
Reply to this commentThis is a great piece of information John. This is the type of stuff that keeps me reading your blog everyday.
Reply to this commentExactly - Great Content - Great Blog
Reply to this commentYeah, I second that. I read a lot of blogs, but I always go back to JC to get more info.
Reply to this commentyay! found out earlier today (yesterday) and added those features to my feed
Reply to this commentThanks for the info! I wouldn’t have found out about it anyways. Do you by any chance know if they are planning to integrate feedburner into their Blogger service?
Reply to this commentThanks for the good news!
Reply to this commentThat sure is a good news.
Reply to this commentOne more New thing about google.Pretty evil
Awesome! Google rules! If only they would buy out Microsoft and make Vista upgrades free… lol.
Reply to this commentWho needs Vista anyways?
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Reply to this commentHaha it can happen, right?
Reply to this commentGood news and good way how to get even more users.
Reply to this commentHm.. good news but maybe there’s somethin about it…
Reply to this commentBecause Big G will have some agenda…
Probably they’re out to distract us with all these perks. Before we know it, we’ve built some kind of Google dependence.
Reply to this commentjohn has reached another milestone with over 6000 feed subscribers!
well done
Reply to this commentAwesome
Always like more free stuff, and feedburner is already a great service anyway.
Reply to this commentGoogle has plenty to go around. Doesnt surprise me they are offering this at no cost now.
Reply to this commentIn the grand scheme of things, I believe that nothing is ever really “free.” For now, I’d take free feedburner services though; would just have to worry about cosmic laws later on.
Reply to this commentGood News….and great to noe this
Reply to this commentGreat news !
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