Comments on: Automattic’s free WordPress.org stats

By: Matthew Pennell

Matthew Pennell — Tue, 08 May 2007 09:22:14 +0000

You can use Analytics to track outgoing links as well as traffic stats - it can also track stuff like JavaScript events as well.

By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Mon, 07 May 2007 12:25:14 +0000

“… what do you view as the main advantages of using FeedBurner?”

FeedBurner is all about promoting your content in as many different ways as possible.

It’s about getting your content out there, in the wild.

There’s also stats’ tracking, for both your feeds and your regular web visitors, although the numbers tend to drift a little.

“I guess it’s best to setup FeedBurner in the very early days of a blog to ensure everyone’s using the correct feed URL?”

Better late than never!

The good thing is, if people are already subscribed, you’ll ‘migrate’ them across to FeedBurner, since you’ll be using your regular feed address as the basis for your feed stats’ in FeedBurner.

Just get a free account, have a play around and let me know how you get on.

If you get stuck, you know where to find me.

BTW: I’ve added another link into this comment (just click my name again,) which gives you some info on partial and full-fat feeds.

Hope that helps?

By: Vero

Vero — Mon, 07 May 2007 12:05:09 +0000

Thanks Wayne, I’ll definitely have a look at Clicky as well.

I know this might sound a bit dense but what do you view as the main advantages of using FeedBurner? I’ve yet to use it, and never did much analysis of my RSS feeds.

I guess it’s best to setup FeedBurner in the very early days of a blog to ensure everyone’s using the correct feed URL?

By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Mon, 07 May 2007 11:59:32 +0000

You might want to have a look at Clicky, which I reviewed recently.

You can also tie in Clicky with your FeedBurner account, too…