Activate FeedBurner PRO and MyBrand for Free

After acquired FeedBurner, Google decided to make the FeedBurner’s previously paid services, TotalStats(FeedBurner Stats Pro) and Mybrand, to be FREE for all users. Here are the step-by-step tutorials to activate both services.

FeedBurner Stats PRO — allows you to have advance stats about your site feed, such as number of people who have viewed or clicked individual content items in your feed, as well as site visitors stats.

Follow these steps to activate FeedBurner Stats PRO for your feeds:

1. Sign in your FeedBurner account
2. Select the FeedBurner feed you want to activate for Feedburner Stats PRO
3. Under Analyze tab, click FeedBurner Stats PRO link under Services

   

4. At FeedBurner Stats PRO page, tick the “Item views PRO” checkbox to activate the PRO services.

   

5. Click the “Save” button to confirm and activate the FeedBurner Stats PRO services.
6. Done. You will see a little PRO icon near the feed on your FeedBurner “My Feeds” list.

MyBrand — allows you to use own domain name for FeedBurner feed. Example: feeds.yourdomain.com, instead of feeds.feedburner.com. Using MyBrand does not affect your feed stats. It only make your feed address consistent to your website address. Er.. a branding.

Follow these steps to activate MyBrand:

1. Sign in your FeedBurner account and click the “My Account” link in the upper left-corner.

   

2. At My Account page, click the “MyBrand PRO” link under Services

   

3. This is the hard part. Create a CNAME entry in the DNS records for each domain name you want to use. Then, fill in the domain name(s) to use.

   Note: you need to know to configure CNAME for your domain name’s DNS records. You can refer to the Google Apps for Administrators to create CNAME record on popular hosting services, or ask your domain/web hosting provider’s help.

4. Click “Activate” button to save and activate it. It will take up to 24 hours for the CNAME to take effect.

My two cents

As the invited blogger in FeedBurner Ad Network, I have been giving free PRO services for months.

I highly recommend every FeedBurner user activate the FeedBurner Stats PRO. You can really see the different of feed stats after activation, a lot of information about your feed and feed readers.

For MyBrand, I do not activate it. It is not necessary for my blogs because the site feeds are auto redirected to FeedBurner by FeedSmith plugin. No need to mess with DNS records.

By the way, I wish FeedBurner will add anti-leech feature to protect our feeds from feed scrapers.

Have you activated the PRO services? How is it?

P.S. Week after free FeedBurner services, FeedBurner announced the FeedBurner Integration for Blogspot Blogs. Detail instructions is on Quick Start for Blogger.