email referrals

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  lior20 · Member · Feb 17, 2007 at 6:08 pm

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  Hi

  I was wondering if anyone has any idea regarding this. In my blog I offer email subscription service via Feedburner. According to them, I have one subscriber. But in my blog stats, in the referral column, I see that people reach my blog via email accounts, like gmail and other accounts that DO NOT respond to my sole subscriber (up to now). So how can that be? do I have subscribers that aren’t listed at feedburner? That’s the only way, to my thinking, that someone can get to my blog via an email account. I know I should’ve posted that question over at Feedburner, but I wanted to know what WordPress bloggers have to say first.

  Thanks.

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  cornell · Member · Feb 17, 2007 at 6:13 pm

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  I discovered this afternoon that gmail has the ability to add a direct RSS feed. Although you’re offering a feedburner feed, it’s possible that they’ve picked up the direct feed.

  I don’t know about the other accounts, but it’s one possibility.

  HTH

  Collin

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  trent · Member · Feb 17, 2007 at 6:14 pm

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  There was a topic about Feedburner only showing stats for people that have their feeds in ‘their feedburner format’ and don’t count normal subscribers. Not sure if this is even quite what you are seeing, but drmike and tt had some discussion on that topic.

  Hope that helps.

  Trent

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  drmike · Member · Feb 17, 2007 at 6:19 pm

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  There are also services that monitor websites and send an email when a site is updated. That may be what those folks are using as well.

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  lior20 · Member · Feb 17, 2007 at 6:31 pm

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  thanks all. In the meantime I decided to try using statcounter to better track the statistics (although I must say I find the wordpress blog stats very satisfying). I’m especially interested in unique visitors stats, subscriptions, and location of incoming browsers.
  And basically, it may sound a bit “green”, but some of your answers amazed me. It seems like when you open a blog is sort of takes a life of its own around the web :-)