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#1 2007-01-03 17:24:06
- hilary
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Rss feed: number of readers?
Hi guys!
How can I check how many people have subscribed to my rss feed please?
Hilary
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Re: Rss feed: number of readers?
You can sign up for a free Feedburner account – basically a stats application for your feed.
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#3 2007-01-04 10:03:37
- hilary
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Re: Rss feed: number of readers?
Hi Jm!
Thanks for the reply!
I took a look at that, and I see that it ‘takes over’ the feed, and it will have a new url afterwards aswell? Im not too sure I want to hand it over to someone else who can put advertising on it at all!!!
I was hoping there was a link or a plugin in textpattern that would show me how many readers I have.. does that exist at all? Or is there any other stats application that doesnt take over the feed?
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Though I haven’t used it, maybe Mint or Google Analytics can record feed subscriptions?
Regarding Feedburner – it doesn’t place ads on your feed (example). You can redirect your TXP feeds easily too. So if a user goes to site.com/rss, they’ll be automatically redirected to http://feeds.feedburner.com/sitename. Feedburner widgets generate those “0.1 Subscribers!” buttons on blogs (think they call them chicklets or something).
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#5 2007-01-04 11:39:49
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Re: Rss feed: number of readers?
Mmm, I checked in google analytics yesterday and didnt find anything..
Feedburner is sounding like the only way.. I must get over my fear :)
Thanks a mill for your help!
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#6 2007-01-04 12:12:23
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Re: Rss feed: number of readers?
Ok, I took the plunge!
Its still ‘checking the bubble wrap’, but I should have stats soon :)
Im glad I did that now, I dont know much about feeds yet, its about time I figured the whole thing out!!
Thanks again!
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Re: Rss feed: number of readers?
it records hits to /rss /atom… yes
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Nice! I’m going to go reinstall it (haven’t used it in a long time).
Last edited by jm (2007-01-04 20:25:56)
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colak wrote:
it records hits to /rss /atom… yes
AWStats does this as well.
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#12 2007-01-05 09:23:53
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Re: Rss feed: number of readers?
Nice, Im going to try slimstats instead, the page they give you on feedburner looks awful, I love the look of the textpattern one…
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#13 2007-01-05 09:31:56
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Re: Rss feed: number of readers?
Ah.. it just records hits.. :(
Well I have awstats already, but I really wanted to know the subscriber number more accurately… its weird, there seems to be no other solution to this besides feedburner, which is a serious comprimise to hand your feed over to them, Im quite surprised there isnt a simpler way of checking your number of readers!!!
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hey i like feedburner a lot. it gives you a lot of convenient options for syndicating your feed. so can anyone help me? i axxed the code in the default page that put the RSS icon in the address bar(i guess you call that a rss 2.0 feed?). well i’d like that icon to re-appear but this time take the user to my feedburner page, and better yet when someone puts my domain name into a rss reader, the feedburner is the one that gets recognized. thanks
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<link href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/my_feed_name" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" />Offline