One of the problems with RSS feeds is you never know how many people are subscribed to your feed. How To Blog For Fun & Profit has a nice run down of the available options to track RSS traffic. I’m not really interested in any of the available option at this point. I would like to see something I can add to my server to wrap my feed URL in and track results. I hate relying on a third party.
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Stephen VanDyke
January 28th, 2005 at 7:20 pm
1I’m actually a really big fan of FeedBurner and have been using it since it was alpha. Normally I like to keep an iron grip on my content, but in things such as stats, 3rd party is usually more feature laden than open source.
Now I’m just waiting for a realistic implementation of RSS ads so that I can actually get revenue from my RSS in the same way I get it from my site.
John
January 28th, 2005 at 7:39 pm
2Maybe I’ll have to give FeedBurner a try until another solution comes along.
Advertising in syndicated feeds is something I’m keeping a close eye on. I think it’s going to happen, and sooner rather then later. I wouldn’t mind seeing Google ads in feeds.
I think Google will come up with something shortly.