[consulting] Tracking readership via RSS

[Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg]

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:
http://www.google.com/analytics/cu/dt_email_campaigns.html


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On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 2:27 AM, Bill Fitzgerald <bill at funnymonkey.com>wrote:

> Hello, Ryan,
>
> Ryan Cross wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Anyone have other suggestions/insights?
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Bill
>
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