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I debunked this months ago here on Hacker News: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4215474

Here's more info: http://support.google.com/feedburner/answer/79590?hl=en

The short version is that FeedBurner has a free feature called MyBrand which serves your feeds from a CNAME of your own ___domain. Then if you choose to leave FeedBurner, you still have full control of your feeds and permalinks. I set it up on my own ___domain years ago as feeds.mattcutts.com, for example.

I think this free feature of FeedBurner is one that everyone should use so that you keep feeds under your own control and served off your own ___domain.




Hi Matt, first thanks for getting the time to read my post, and replay. The problem I still see is that even if you have your ___domain the link is messed up. From your blog.

http://feeds.mattcutts.com/~r/mattcutts/uJBW/~3/8IurStR5fXw/

Goes to

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pubcon-2012-slides/

So if I bookmark the former, and FB dissapear you will have to create a full list of 301 redirects in your server so my links still work. Yes you have the control, but that is a lot of work.

Why not make FB links like this?

http://feeds.mattcutts.com/blog/pubcon-2012-slides/

In that case all you have to do is a 301 of feeds to www.

Hope my point is clear.

Edit: never mind. Someone found this http://www.wangarific.com/how-to-get-rid-of-feedproxy-links-...

That way you really have all the control back.


If I recall correctly, as an independent company Feedburner charged a modest fee for CNAME feeds.

Once Google acquired Feedburner, Google made the feature free.

I'm pretty sure the consumer got a nice win here.




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