How do I see who has subscribed

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  kerrywills · Member · Nov 4, 2009 at 1:53 am

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  Ok I am new to this but was curious as to how I can see how many people are subscribed to my blog. I clicked around but didnt see it on any stats. Thanks in advance

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  raincoaster · Member · Nov 4, 2009 at 1:57 am

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  WordPress.com doesn’t give general feed stats (they do give them for individual posts, if you click on the graph next to the post title on your stats page). For this reason, many people choose to hide their RSS icon and use a text widget to display their Feedburner feed instead, because Feedburner gives better feed stats.

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  kerrywills · Member · Nov 4, 2009 at 2:00 am

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  Sorry you lost me – how do I get Feedburner and will that show me number of subscribers?

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  raincoaster · Member · Nov 4, 2009 at 2:37 am

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  Go to http://feedburner.com and sign up there.

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/email-subscriptions/

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  kerrywills · Member · Nov 4, 2009 at 9:53 am

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  Thank you

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  wordwatchtowers · Member · Nov 4, 2009 at 2:29 pm

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  Hi raincoaster – thanks for this – I just followed the instructions and have (hopefully) correctly installed a feedburner thingy on my blog. Should I now get rid of the ‘RSS Links’ thingy? Thanks ever so. x

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  electricia1 · Member · Nov 4, 2009 at 3:11 pm

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  I got the impression Feedburner was for email subs and the RSS feed was for subscribers who view via Google reader, my Yahoo, or other. Is this true?

  When I log into Google Webmaster tools (which one can do after submitting a sitemap to Google) it tells me the number of subscribers who view my blog on Google reader

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  electricia1 · Member · Nov 4, 2009 at 3:15 pm

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  Forgot to add that I have Feedburner email sub on my sidebar, after learning about it in these forums. But since I use “mistylook” theme, the RSS icon seems to be part of the design. I’m not sure if I have the option to hide it.

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  kerrywills · Member · Nov 4, 2009 at 5:12 pm

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  I now have Feedburner up and running and I know several people have signed up but when I go tot he site it says I have 0 subscribers. Any idea what I am doing wrong?

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  kristineleuze · Member · Nov 4, 2009 at 5:18 pm

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  kerrywills- As far as I know, Feedburner will show you the stats for those that subscribe to you from here on out, it doesn’t work in reverse since people have to click on the button for google to collect the data.

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  kerrywills · Member · Nov 4, 2009 at 6:00 pm

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  Since I added the link people have signed up but the stat still says 0. I suspect that either (1) it takes time to calculate or (2) it will calculate once I post my next blog