DISQUS

Colin Devroe: Feedburner on, Feedburner off

  • Michael J. Pratt · 1 year ago
    So Chris - excellent points that now have me pondering. A couple of questions though: How do you know it's down beyond constantly trying to subscribe to your own feed. I check Feedburner's site a few times a week and it always has stats, etc so nothing "appears" messed up. Are there other alternatives to keep tabs on your subs?

    Thanks,

    Mike

    PS Glad to see @garyvee do a nice shout out
  • Colin Devroe · 1 year ago
    Mike: Name is Colin, not Chris. But I'll let it slide. ;) The one thing I can say is that I suggest subscribing to your own feed as one way. The other way would be to subscribe to OTHER sites that use Feedburner too, just to check up now and then.

    I am not sure if Feedburner has any other way to figure this out though. They need a status blog.
  • djsteen · 1 year ago
    Enlightening post, Colin!

    I've used Feedburner since day one of my podcast, and I don't think there's been any issues with people trying to download my shows via the feed (in iTunes, etc).

    How do you track subscribers without Feedburner? I have Wordpress Stats installed on my blog, but that only has information about clicks, links, and views.
  • josue salazar · 1 year ago
    If you weren't using FeedBurner before and just started to, the numbers will be low, it'll track your subscribers when they ping your feedburner feed but that will take time, even if they were already subscribed and you are masking feebuner it can't just "know" how many are subscribed..

    in other words probably very few of your subscribers pinged the feed on sunday night/monday..