One Tip a Day

Today I implemented a RSS feed on http://giveandtake.co.nz, and try to figure out how to track the number of subscribers.

I was already under the impression that was not an easy thing to do, I got it confirmed.

• Aggregator providers, such as Google Reader, fetch a feed once and then distribute it to the subscribers.
• Others automatically call the feed at a regular interval, even if the user is not necessary reading the new feeds each time.
• A solution is to use a feed gateway such as feedburner (which I just discove is now part of Google). But then the pagerank of the feed benefits to feedburner and not to your own domain…

A more detailed link:
http://www.rss-specifications.com/measuring-tracking-rss.htm

Tags: rss, statistics

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