number of subscriptions?

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  summerbatte · Member · Aug 26, 2009 at 9:37 pm

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  How can I find out how many people have signed up for email notification of my blog? The “subscriptions” area in my dashboard seems to only apply to MY subscriptions, not people who have subscribed to me…
  Or maybe it’s just that nobody likes me!

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

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  raincoaster · Member · Aug 26, 2009 at 9:45 pm

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  We can’t help without a link to your blog, starting with http. That’s the case for pretty much ALL technical questions.

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  summerbatte · Member · Aug 26, 2009 at 9:59 pm

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  Sorry, I thought I included it in the form. Here:

  http://summermb.wordpress.com/

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  raincoaster · Member · Aug 26, 2009 at 10:10 pm

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  Thanks. It does not look as if you’ve enabled email subscriptions, actually. They are NOT standard on a WordPress.com blog. You have to go to Feedburner, register there, burn a feed, and then write a text widget with a link to the Feedburner feed and put that in your sidebar.

  So, technically, the number of email subscribers you currently have is zero. You can always change that:

  Email Subscriptions

  Now, “subscriptions” typically does not refer to email subscriptions; they’re just an afterthought. “Subscriptions” means RSS subscribers. This is an intro to RSS:

  And as for the total number of subscribers, WordPress.com used to provide that, but don’t anymore for whatever reason.

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  regisskeehan · Member · Sep 29, 2009 at 9:19 pm

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  I am a rank beginner at blogging. My blog is called “Housing 101.” it is at http://regisskeehan.wordpress.com I did my 1st blog 14 days ago. Now I am trying to put the capability on my blog for people to subscribe to my blog so that when I publish something, they get a notification by e-mail. I did the feedburner thing and I think I did it over and over again. Now I got 5 feedburner links, but none of them work. I tried to trouble shoot it, One analytic test said my feed was viable, but some program told my it couldn’t find my feed URL. I am pretty much lost.

  Oh, I did do the first few (3) subscriptions to my self and my wife at other e-mail addresses to test how it worked. And feed burner sent e-mails out, which we confirmed back. and Feed burner left the message that we would get notification when there was a post. I sent 2 posts today, but no e-mail notifications.

  Seems like feedburner can’t find my blog feed, but I don’t know why or how to tell it where to find it.

  Regis Skeehan

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 30, 2009 at 12:26 am

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  Feedburner only sends out notifications once ever 24 hours and depending on when the posts were published in relation to that time it might be 23 hours and 59 minutes before the notifications get sent out.