Best way to track RSS subscribers? (not feedburner)

Discussion in 'XML & RSS' started by gruegoo, Feb 13, 2007.

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    Hi,

    What do you guys use? Right now I have no way to track my subscribers at all. I'm hesitant to use feedburner because I would no longer fully control my feeds and subscribers (i.e. if they move or go out of business then I lose everyone). Any ideas?

    Thanks in advance!
     
    gruegoo, Feb 13, 2007 IP
  2. T0PS3O

    T0PS3O Feel Good PLC

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    It's still a HTTP request so any decent log analyzer should be able to establish how many uniques download your feed. That will be less than the number of actual subscribers but more interesting anyway.
     
    T0PS3O, Feb 13, 2007 IP
  3. gruegoo

    gruegoo Well-Known Member

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    Thanks for the quick response!

    Is there any way to get a number though? I'd like to post it on my site, as I've read that people respond well to it. For example, more people might subscribe to a feed if they see 2000 others are subscribed to it.
     
    gruegoo, Feb 13, 2007 IP