dasBlog provides an integration point with FeedBurner for syndicating and linking to your blog's RSS feed. Using FeedBurner to syndicate your blog has several advantages over using the local syndication service generated by dasBlog:

  1. As your subscriber count increases your site will not incur thousands of hits each day with blog reader software checking back for updated RSS posts.
  2. When users click to subscribe to your blog they see a standard FeedBurner page which makes it easy to subscribe by selecting from multiple options. This means you don't have to build individual links for BlogLines and other online reader services, and the subscribing experience is consistent regardless of what OS/browser is being used.

First step is to get setup with FeedBurner:

Next step is to configure dasBlog to display the FeedBurner link instead of the syndication service:

  • Open a local copy of the dasBlog \SiteConfig\site.config file in your favorite text editor and enter the feed name in the FeedBurnerName tag. Here's how it looks for this blog: <FeedBurnerName>MikeKnowles3</FeedBurnerName>    
  • Upload the config file to your site, and clear the browser cache and reload your main page.
  • The links to main blog feed will now use the FeedBurner link. Links to categories (tags) will still use the local syndication service links.
  • Within a theme, the FeedBurner link will be inserted every time you use the macro: <%feedLink%>  
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