WordPress: Are You Seeing All Your RSS Stats?

While looking at my visitor information on Google Analytics, I realized that the number of visitors was way up, but in contrast to Feedburner numbers it didn’t appear that the number of subscribers was increasing at the same rate.

What I realized is that visitors were still subscribing, but were not necessarily using the RSS Subscription which redirects to the Feedburner source.

On many browsers, including Firefox allow you to click the RSS subscription icon in the toolbar to subscribe.  I’ve found that occasionally that subscription was going the inherent RSS feed of my WordPress blog, but not always to Feedburner.

I found a WordPress Plugin, called FD Feedburner Plugin, that simply redirects the inherent WP RSS feed to your Feedburner account.  It’s very simply to install and configure.

The end result was waking up this morning to seeing a 41% in my overall subscribers when I checked my Feedburner account!

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