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SEO 2.0 has 100 RSS subscribers! After roughly ten weeks of blogging. At least 100. AFAIK. 91 at Google and 9 and Bloglines. So if you subscribe using any other service (I use Netvibes for instance) say “yeah!”
Come on! Somebody say yeah! Yippie, yippie yeah! The people on the right say hooo! The people on the left say hey!!! Did you know that I also was a rapper once when I was young and wild? Unlike now where I spend all day in front of the screen?
So I assume that I got at least 120 or so. How can you count them? Don’t scream at me Feedburner! I hate Feedburner. They basically steal your content and send all your data to the Google mothership. Besides they look ugly and sometimes I click on your Feedburner feed or find it in the Google SERPS. I puke each time.
Is there another method to determine the number of RSS subscribers? Without programming please, I’m so
busylazy!
Anyways as I hail my subscribers I will reward them. So who is the RSS subscriber #100? Tamtaramtam! It’s Derek J Edmond aka dedmond29 of Cape Cod SEO!
What strikes me most is that in his public Bloglines subscriptions I am among the best of best of the best of the SEO industry and blogosphere. There is just one dark horse I did not know before, but a really good one. I stumbled it the minute I read it.
So Derek, as you are my subscriber number 100 you can choose one of these rewards:
- Small banner for free advertising of your SEO company at SEO 2.0 (It should be the size of the Dreamhosting ad at the right) for at least 3 months.
- One guest post at SEO 2.0 with a topic of your choice.
- One latest issue of Search Marketing Standard (I got 5 of them as a contributor this time).
So choose or refuse, but you’re my subscriber honoris causa.
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Congrats on getting 100+ RSS subscribers.
I’ve met Derek Edmond (as he works in the Boston area too).
By the way, as for counting RSS subscribers (without using FeedBurner), this takes some doing. We had to develop this capability for the web analytics feature of our software and ended up being non-trivial.
It basically comes down to coming up with how many “unique” visitors are hitting your RSS feed URL within a given time period. A unique visitor is usually based on things like the IP address and user agent.
You have to use a google product, but analytics might be less evil, have a look:
http://www.gospelrhys.co.uk/2007/09/how-to-track-new-rss-subscribers-google-analytics-in-3-easy-steps.html
Thank you Dharmesh for your explanation. Indeed I am flattered by the fact of having such great bloggers like you in my audience!
Thank you Simon. As far as I understand this solution only counts the new subscribers though. So I won’t know how many subscribed in the time span before implementing it.
So I am thinking maybe this is a good example of why publicly sharing both your knowledge and your interests can be a good idea - no?
Thanks very much for the notice and let’s connect very soon!
I am pretty sure that method I linked to (not that I have tried) gives you activity stats. That’s all feedburner is. It shows how many times your feed has been accessed each day. Although I suspect the analytics method may only show if it is viewed rather than accessed, so maybe it will show the value a little low. Seems like a tricky one, but I I love sharing all my personal details with google, so I just use fb.
Derek: See and be seen :-)
OK Simon, thanks anyways.