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Feedburner Follow up
By JLP | July 6, 2006
A couple of readers asked about how to get the stats I talked about in this post. So, I’ll try to explain how I got them.
When you sign in to your Feedburner account, you should see something similar to this:
Then, you simply click on the account you want to look at, which will take you to another screen that looks like this (I had to trim it down to get it to fit):
Then, click on the “Item Use” icon, which will take you to a screen that looks like this (click on the graphic to make it bigger):
Now, keep in mind that this will only be accurate IF you run ALL YOUR FEEDS through Feedburner, which is what I do. To find out more about pointing all your feeds to Feedburner, check out Feedburner’s forums.
Topics: Blogging | 11 Comments »
July 6th, 2006 at 1:58 pm
You’re the man! Having 983 readers sure makes me jealous!
Investorial.com is currently flirting with crossing the 3-digit barrier. When will it happen, who knows? But maybe one day it can be as popular as your blog!
July 6th, 2006 at 2:05 pm
Investorial,
Thanks. It took a long time to get that many readers!
July 6th, 2006 at 2:47 pm
When I did this, it asked me to cough up $5 a month to subscribe to their advanced services.
July 6th, 2006 at 3:02 pm
Nick,
That’s strange. I’m not paying anything for their service.
$60 per year seems a bit steep to me.
July 6th, 2006 at 3:45 pm
The difference is Standard Stats versus Total Stats. Anyone with a Feedburner account should see this with Standard Stats. I do.
July 6th, 2006 at 4:04 pm
I’m definitely following the steps JLP outlines, but my Aggregate Item Use page is grayed out and covered up with a box that says:
“Hall pass and secret handshake required from this point on.
Upgrade to TotalStats now and, like, totally join the cool club. Starts at $5/month.”
The interwebs don’t love me today.
July 6th, 2006 at 4:13 pm
Nick,
This doesn’t make sense to me because I get this information and I’m not a subscriber. However, I did gripe about some changes in the past and I wonder if they set me up a different account. I don’t know. I would email them and ask them what’s up.
July 7th, 2006 at 8:20 pm
I’ve always been able to see item use for Experiments in Finance (which has nothing very revealing to report about popular items…maybe ‘cuz my visitors don’t seem to come from feeds), but not for my other blog, which I set up with feedburner only a two months ago. I get that secret handshake/upgrade message for that one. Could it be they set a cutoff date at some point after which blogs wouldn’t automatically get the service with standard stats?
July 8th, 2006 at 2:29 am
Oh! Shoot. Good stuff! Thanks JLP.
July 8th, 2006 at 1:10 pm
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July 12th, 2006 at 11:40 pm
I think I have it figured out. Go to your Feedburner account. Go to Analyze. Select StandardStats on the side. Make sure “feed item link clicks” is selected. I think that’s the option. Mine wasn’t checked…