How do we know if people are subscribed to our blog?

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  mollymosack · Member · Apr 12, 2007 at 7:40 am

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  Sorry if this has been answered already. I looked and couldn’t find any topics on this. Where do we access this info?

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 12, 2007 at 8:17 am

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  We don’t have that info. As far as I know, the only way to know who feed subscribers are is to direct ALL your feed readers through Feedburner. engtech has covered using Feedburner on his blog, so I’d suggest you read up there.

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  drmike · Member · Apr 12, 2007 at 6:29 pm

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  You would get a rough count at your Feed Stats page though. Dashboard -> Feed Stats.

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  mollymosack · Member · Apr 12, 2007 at 10:45 pm

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  Thanks!

  drmike – that’s just people who read our feed, but aren’t necessarily subscribed, right?

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  timethief · Member · Apr 12, 2007 at 10:49 pm

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  Yes I do believe that is the case and I’ll leave it to drmike to confirm.

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  drmike · Member · Apr 12, 2007 at 10:59 pm

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  Those are people who are pulling your feed. Most folks don’t pull feeds just for the heck of it.

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  mollymosack · Member · Apr 13, 2007 at 12:34 am

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  What does it mean to pull a feed?

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  timethief · Member · Apr 13, 2007 at 2:27 am

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  Anyone who has a feedreader account and who chooses to can access your feed and read your posts and/or comments through the rss feeds to your blog. There is no way of telling who they are however why would they pull your feed if they weren’t subscribers?

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 13, 2007 at 2:36 am

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  Can’t Feedburner tell you the IPs of people pulling your feed? I thought that was the original question, “WHO is reading our feeds?”

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  timethief · Member · Apr 13, 2007 at 2:38 am

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  I suppose if she uses Feedburner that is true but I use Bloglines and Feedblitz. Then there are also those who draw the feed from the wordpress.com blog surfer as well and we don’t have any way that I know of to tell us WHO they are or how many there are of them, do we?

  What we do know is if you have feed reader stats then people are drawing on your feed. And I don’t think they would be doing that unless they were subscribers.

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  andreecakes · Member · Jun 1, 2007 at 5:00 am

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  I would like to know a similar thing:

  How many people are subscribed to my blog!?

  When I click on Dashboard, I don’t have “Feed Stats” as an option…

  Is this a WP version issue?

  Am I simply looking in the wrong place?

  I installed WP on my own domain so it’s http://www.domainname.com (rather than blogname.wordpress.com etc)

  Any help would be much appreciated..

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  ozrisk · Member · Jun 1, 2007 at 5:11 am

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  andreecakes,
  I suggest you try the forums at wordpress.org. Here at wordpress.com we are running a different software and cannot help.

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  drmike · Member · Jun 1, 2007 at 12:14 pm

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  Please note it’s always a good idea to read a sticky post labeled “Please Read Me First Before Posting” as it usually contains important information. :)