XML, Atom and Feedburner.....

OK, I admit, I didn’t care much about RSS feeds and such when using wordpress.
I didn’t surf other blogs much, so I didn’t need it.

Now I use it and it gets pretty addictive. I’m annoyed when I can’t adopt a feed or a comment feed (wordpress is pretty bad at that it seems).

What I don’t get now is that my Stats on this blog tell me for example that yesterday my feed got read 175 times by XML / Atom.
Nice.
But that feedburner Stats thingy tells me that I have one reader.
I just installed it two days ago.
Does it catch up on the people that already have adopted my feed or not?

Just curious and trying to understand this all (and make sense out of the Stats )

Btw. you can adopt my posts now via email as well

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Comment from: msSmunro
2008-01-06 @ 06:47:35

It will only tell you about readers who have signed up for your feed through Feedburner. Thats why I removed the default B2evolution ones and just use the feedburner feed on my blog, means I can track how many have subscribed to me.

When I saw you'd added a feedburner feed for your blog I updated your feed in my reader one so that 1 subscription showing is probably me? (though the numbers seem to go up and down a bit so I dont know how exact it is).

I too am thoroughly enjoy subscribing to blogs, is great.
Comment from: NicoleB
2008-01-06 @ 07:01:50

I've moved the default option back further down the blog, because it seems with the feedburner you can't subscribe to a comment feed.
And I love comment feeds
Comment from: msSmunro
2008-01-06 @ 07:11:55

You just need to create another feedburner feed for your comments. You can also have a "Subscribe to Email" link which is popular.
Comment from: David Webb
2008-01-06 @ 07:33:07

To track all the existing subscribers, you'll have to add a redirect from your old feed to the feedburner one, like blogger lets you do. This could break existing feed subscriptions, so maybe you could just do a post telling people to please subscribe at the new feedburner location?

I use feedburner on my blogs and find it invaluable, along with google analytics, for website monitoring.

Cheers,

David
Comment from: NicoleB
2008-01-06 @ 07:39:26

Thanks for the hint, Sally, doooh, I just added the feedburner for comments

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Good idea, David and thanks for the reminder for google analytics
I keep forgetting to try to put the code on my page....
Comment from: msSmunro
2008-01-06 @ 08:47:20

They look good...but you should probably make a note that one is for posts and the other for comments
Comment from: NicoleB
2008-01-06 @ 08:50:58

Oups - I was dreaming it did say that...
Comment from: NicoleB
2008-01-06 @ 11:56:39

Btw., if you subscribed, I subscribed that should make two already.
So, the count is off.
It also says I had noone visiting my site and on the other counter it has something like 30 odd in the last 30 hours.
Oh well
I'm patient
Comment from: msSmunro
2008-01-06 @ 13:50:23

Id like to find some info on how reliable the subscriber numbers are with feedburner. There will be something written about it somewhere.
Ive taken no notice of feedburners traffic stats, mine always said 0 too.

What are you using that is showing you XML hits?

I signed up with Google Analytics the other day and loving it (great to have stats which I know doesnt include my own clicks) but I cant find anywhere on it that shows XML hits.
Comment from: NicoleB
2008-01-06 @ 17:47:11

That's pretty odd, no, I mean, if those stats don't work, how's the rest supposed to work?
Uh..... :S

The XML hits? You find those in the Stats on your blog...
At least it says so, which makes me wonder in the first place, because they are so high.

Haven't used GA for a while, oh well.
I don't think they have the XML hits on there.
My host only has Robots and he has an aprox. amount of people that bookmarked (faved) my Site, but no feed readers (I think...)