Using Feedburner
Sat, 24 February, 2007 – 11:53 am
I don't get Feedburner at times. I first set my feeds up to go via feedburner to get better statistics reporting on which of my feeds were being read. The downside with using feeds from your own site is that it can skew your stats, as a feedreader will hit the feed file every half hour / hour / couple of hours etc. and this can show as a visitor or several visitors even though the person hasn't physically come to your site! So I figured that setting up Feedburner would help a little, plus give me more of an idea of how many actually subscribed to my site feeds.
However Feedburner doesn't report how many are subscribed but rather how many people are reading. For example on Thursday my count jumped to 20 on the frontend feed (my blog compilation), yet feedburner now reports it was zero yesterday. As you can see, it's quite confusing figures! Perhaps it only increases when I post as between posts there's nothing to report to the feedreaders. However looking on other people's sites, their feedburner stats seem to continually have a consistent figure, whether they've posted or not. Maybe I just don't look elsewhere often enough!
2 Responses to “Using Feedburner”
Seems like I broke Feedburner
Despite following their instructions on setting up a 301 redirect from my old feed to the Feedburner feed, then removing the old feed file, this actually works if you don't remove the old feed file but rename it and update FB with the new file, as FB still needs the file!!
So putting a 301 on the file FB is trying to read strangely caused a few errors!!
And I deleted the front end CSS in another blonde moment and only just noticed
Time for a frontend redesign methinks.
By Sarah on Feb 27, 2007
Seems like I did the same on the internal feedburner feed too. Ah well, that's fixed too now.
By Sarah on Mar 5, 2007