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31stJanuary

RSS Subscribers - Opps

I always go through back links to this blog and read the posts that are linking to this site. If I can, I try to comment on every page that comments about me in a post to show I'm thankful. (If I have not commented on a post you wrote about me, let me know and I will!)

The other day I was going through and found a post by 365tofreedom.com. He mentioned that my RSS icon was going to the wordpress RSS and not through feedburner so my stats were not being counted.

Jonathan, if you’re reading this, you might want to make the RSS links on your blog point to your FeedBurner URL. If someone clicks on the RSS icon in your address bar or the big RSS image under “RSS Subscribe” they’re not being included in your FeedBurner count. I’d be willing to bet you have a lot more than 122 subscribers (as of today).

I had not even noticed that I made this mistake... Thanks!

So, that being said, if you're subscribed to the direct RSS, if you would not mind, take the time to subscribe through the feedburner RSS. That way I can get a bit more accurate number of readers and such.

And if you have not yet subscribed, now is a perfect time!

Thanks! I'm going to get back to my birthday now!

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Dave says 31st January @ 2:03

Yeah, looks like I was subscribed to the wordpress feed. I’ve switched over to feedburner now.

Just a little tip:
If you ever plan on building links to your feed. Like you would if you submitted it to a blog directory that gave the option of a direct link to your feed. Or even if you just want to keep your link equity for your blog, instead of passing it off to feedburner. Then you may want to keep the feed set up as http://www.jonathanvolk.com/feed/ and 302 redirect all traffic to feedburner.

By doing that you can keep the link equity for your blog rather than giving it to feedburner and feedburner will still be able to keep track of your subscribers.

I think there is even a plugin for that. You can probably find it over at feedburner.

Allright dude, Happy B-Day!

Later

Jonathan Volk says 31st January @ 8:17

Wow Thanks for the tip Dave! I appreciate it.

And thanks! I’m already having a great Bday!

Matt Larson says 31st January @ 8:18

Hi Jonathan,

Did you try feedsmith? That may solve your dilemma http://blogs.feedburner.com/feedburner/archives/2007/05/feedburner_adopts_twoyearold_r.php

by redirecting all requests for a wordpress feed through feedburner. Hope I read that right & it helps.

Dave says 31st January @ 17:40

Hey Jonathan,

The plugin Matt mentioned is the one I was thinking of. It should perform a 302 redirect, that way the link juice will not be transfered to feedburner.

Jonathan Volk says 31st January @ 18:02

Sweet! Thanks guys. I installed the plugin now. :)

~Jonathan

Pedro Maia says 31st January @ 21:43

Well, I hadn’t subscribed it yet, so, as you said, perfect timing. =D

Thomas Sinfield says 1st February @ 7:44

Thats not something you really want to happen. Good thing it got noticed. Anyway I hope you had a great birthday!

Dave says 2nd February @ 3:15

Hey Jonathan,

Now that the plugin is installed you should change all the links back to http://www.jonathanvolk.com/feed/ and use that rather than the feedburner url.

This will do two things for you.

1. As I mentioned before, if you ever build any links to your feed then the link juice will go to your site rather than feedburner. Even with the url being redirected you still keep the link juice because it is a 302 redirect and those don’t pass on link popularity.

2. By getting people to sign up to the /feed/ url rather than feedburner you will avoid having to go to the trouble of asking everyone to switch if you ever decide to quit using feedburner (maybe one day there will be a better service). All you would have to do is remove the redirect or redirect it somewhere else.

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