This is my attempt to deal with my various feeds. Feedburner does a good job giving me stats of who has been here etc. but it is missing a portion of you. Feedburner today shows 51, which is awesome, that is my all time high, but I know for a fact that it is missing at least 23 people on Bloglines. I’ve got all the feeds on my blog pointing to feedburner now, but I still have an issue with autodiscovery, mainly because I haven’t taken the time to deal with it. Since that is the case, many of you have subscribed to feeds that Feedburner is not tracking.
If you don’t mind, please subscribe to this feed and drop whatever feed you are subscribed to. That will help tremendously, just to bring everything together.
In the end, it really doesn’t matter, it’s probably just my obssession with numbers coming out. I get decent stats from my host too, probably better than Feedburner well, not better, just more detailed. Feedburner is easier to get to, in my mind, at least, so that’s why I like it.
Anyway, I know it’s my own fault for leaving those feeds out there for AutoDiscovery.
Stay tuned, there is more good stuff coming up. I have received some e-mails with questions on a few different things, which I have already responded back to, but they are good topics to address out here as well. I love getting email because that can push me to think about things and address things that I might not do on my own. So keep ‘em coming!
The reality is, that even the best web statistics tracker on your web host (or web server) cannot definitively track every visitor and every visit and every page view, b/c of caching that can happen at the visitor’s browser, or on servers in between where your website is and where the local or regional ISP is. Plus a myriad of other factors. So there you go, use your statistics as a general guage on trends, and not fret over how people are subscribing to what feeds.
If you want to force the issue, change your .htaccess so that any pings to the old (undesired) feed URLs will automatically get redirected to the feedburner feed. How’s that?
Good point! I know, in the end, it doesn’t matter. I am able to gauge trends and I need to be satisfied with that. I might look at .htaccess, I wasn’t aware of that.
Thanks!