Colin Devroe - Latest Comments in Feedburner on, Feedburner off

Re: Feedburner on, Feedburner off

josue salazar — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:08:35 -0000

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..

Re: Feedburner on, Feedburner off

Derek Steen — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:34:06 -0000

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.

Re: Feedburner on, Feedburner off

Colin Devroe — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:43:52 -0000

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.

Re: Feedburner on, Feedburner off

Michael J. Pratt — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:38:13 -0000

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