To Feed or Not to Feed
I have been using Feedburner to re-publish by RSS feeds with a feature called SmartFeeds. SmartFeed allows me to not worry about feed formating and a lot of extra bells and whistles to make feed reading for my readers easier. Some of these bells and whistles include: email this, digg this, comments and others. Since, I publish full feeds (Yes people. No summaries for me) I hoped that feed reader junkies will be happy with these features.
Then, I checked out my Feedburner statistics. Lot and behold! Only an average of 20 people read my feed over Feedburner! And about 100 people read my feeds over the old wordpress feed link! Yikes! Anybody have ideas on how to remedy this? Should I create a re-write rule that redirects /feed/ to an external site? Is that even a good idea?
December 20th, 2006 at 2:01 pm
[…] Then, I checked out my Feedburner statistics. Lot and behold! Only an average of 20 people read my feed over Feedburner! And about 100 people read my feeds over the old wordpress feed link! Yikes! Anybody have ideas on how to remedy this? Should I create a re-write rule that redirects /feed/ to an external site? Is that even a good idea? […]
December 21st, 2006 at 9:27 am
I’m curious as to how you found out that 100 people are subscribed to your WP feed
December 21st, 2006 at 4:38 pm
simple. my hosting provider paminta.com provides me with access to some web statistical reporting tool. this tools allows me to see the average number of hits on my http://hip2b2.yutivo.org/feed/ page. so i guess that there are about that many feed pullers daily.