The feed is on fire
Someone told me about FeedBurner today, and it sounded like a useful thing to use for tracking purposes, so I went ahead and routed my blog’s RSS feed through that. If you subscribe to my RSS feed, it would be appreciated if you’d switch to this new feed, so instead of assuming my readership numbers are astonishingly low, I can be empirically confident they are astonishingly low. If you don’t subscribe to my RSS feed, why not take this opportunity to do so? It’s win-win!
The old URL will still work, but it’s old. The new one is new. Isn’t that exciting? I’m excited.
Tags: blogosphere 2.0, feed burglar, internet, traffic
September 28th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
Does FeedBurner do anything clever to work out how many people are subscribing via things like Google Reader? As I understand it, Google only request the RSS feed from one place and then cache it on their servers (updating it every so often) so you could have a million subscribers and only see one unique visitor.
(You can see how many people are subscribing via Google Reader by displaying the feed in Google Reader and clicking the Show Details link on the right. That’s handy, although it bugs me that it just says “Subscribers” as if that’s all of them when AFAIK it’s just the ones using Google Reader and there could be lots using other readers.)
September 29th, 2008 at 9:47 am
done
September 29th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Leo:
Honestly, I have no idea. I tend to be a few steps behind on all the Web 2.0 stuff. I appreciate the heads up, though; I wasn’t aware that’s how Google Reader worked.