Google Reader now reports feed usage, and it is being suggested by a many of the numbers mean, but he is missing out on some vital clues that are extremely revealing.
First up, for those counting stats such as
Javascript Bookmark
This again uses the autodiscovery URL in the header of your blog, but for some reason, maybe my own oversight or mistake my autodiscovery URL is andybeard.eu/feed - notice this URL doesn't have a trailing slash.
RSS Feed Subscription - Evaluation
This is where we gain a unique perspective on Feed Subscription
- 580 people are subscribed to http://andybeard.eu/feed/ - those people used a subscription button to subscribe to my feed.
- 196 people are subscribed to http://feeds.feedburner.com/Exploring-Niche-Websites - those are either very long-time subscribers from my time on blogspot, or they used RSS Autodiscovery to subscribe using Google Reader
- 146 people are subscribed to http://andybeard.eu/feed - those people most likely used a javascript based subscription button in Firefox to subscribe to my feed.
Now if you are very smart, you could use this method to split test subscription methods, and rely on Feedburner for your aggregate data.
This isn't an attempt to get on a back-slapping
In this post I am trying to highlight some unique information that no one has ever revealed before, and could be extremely useful.
This isn't the same as
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