I think the only way this will be possible is by using the transparent image method used in e-mail campaigns. I would think about it in the same way that e-mail campaigns are tracked: <br><a href="http://www.google.com/analytics/cu/dt_email_campaigns.html">http://www.google.com/analytics/cu/dt_email_campaigns.html</a><br>
<br><br clear="all">--<br>Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg<br>ZivTech, LLC<br><a href="http://zivtech.com">http://zivtech.com</a><br><a href="mailto:alex@zivtech.com">alex@zivtech.com</a><br>office: (267) 940-7737<br>cell: (215) 866-8956<br>
skype: zivtech<br>aim: zivtech<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 2:27 AM, Bill Fitzgerald <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bill@funnymonkey.com">bill@funnymonkey.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello, Ryan,<div class="im"><br>
<br>
Ryan Cross wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>
<br>
Also - can I ask specifically what types of problems people are experiencing with feedburner? I haven't used it enough to notice any issues and its odd that there doesn't seem to be any strong alternatives in the market.<br>
</blockquote>
<br></div>
On a few different occasions, Feedburner would randomly munge feeds -- everything from feeds not being accessible, to older posts getting mixed into new posts, to updates not showing up for days. Also, feed counts would fluctuate wildly, varying by several hundred "subscribers" in either direction over short (6-12 hours) periods of time.<br>
<br>
The main reason to use feedburner was something I heard back in the day, when non-technical people still had difficulty generating standard xml for podcasts: feedburner did this automatically, and got you decent stats on your audience. But this was back in 2004-2005.<br>
<br>
I think the reason that there isn't a real competitor in the market is that there really isn't much of a market there. There are so many other ways to do what feedburner is attempting to do -- part of why I wanted feedback from the list is to be disabused of that notion :) If there is a tool that provides more useful numbers, I'd love to see it -- but, it seems that for now, using 1-2 different tracking tools, and using them in reference to one another to spot trends (aka, what we've been doing) is probably the way to go.<br>
<br>
Anyone have other suggestions/insights?<br>
<br>
Cheers,<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
<br>
Bill<br>
<br>
-- <br>
<br>
Bill Fitzgerald<br>
<a href="http://funnymonkey.com" target="_blank">http://funnymonkey.com</a><br>
FunnyMonkey -- Click. Connect. Learn.<br>
ph. 503 897 7160<br>
<br>
_______________________________________________<br>
consulting mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:consulting@drupal.org" target="_blank">consulting@drupal.org</a><br>
<a href="http://lists.drupal.org/mailman/listinfo/consulting" target="_blank">http://lists.drupal.org/mailman/listinfo/consulting</a><br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br>