stats on RSS subscribers?

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  dafka99 · Member · Jan 6, 2010 at 1:29 am

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  Is there a way I can see stats on the numbers of RSS subscribers to my blog?
  Thanks!

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

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 6, 2010 at 11:41 am

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  Depends. We need the URL of your blog, as outlined in this thread at the top of the forums:
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/7-things-to-know-before-posting-in-wordpresscom-forums?replies=1

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  dafka99 · Member · Jan 7, 2010 at 12:58 am

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  Hi raincoaster–
  Thanks for replying. My blog URL is http://diyscholar.wordpress.com.
  — dafka

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  timethief · Member · Jan 7, 2010 at 1:00 am

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  Are you talking about feedburner email updates? If so those stats are found in your Google Webmasters account.

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  dafka99 · Member · Jan 8, 2010 at 1:39 am

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  My template has a widget that creates this RSS feed: http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/feed/
  I don’t think this is a feedburner rss feed. I just wonder if I can see how many people subscribe to the feed.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 8, 2010 at 1:45 am

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  It should be on your stats page in the bottom left-hand corner. That combines feed and email subscriptions

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  dafka99 · Member · Jan 12, 2010 at 6:47 pm

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  Thanks for the suggestion. Maybe mine is broken. It says I have 7 email subscriptions but no RSS. But the google stats page says I have 153 RSS subscribers through Google. So I have to think the total RSS subsribers should be more.

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  saratripadvisor · Member · Jan 12, 2010 at 7:58 pm

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  I am having the same issue as dajka99. My blog is at tripadvisor.wordpress.com. Via google reader, it says that my blog has a decent number of subscribers, but the stat listed on my Blog Stats page says 0 (because we don’t have any subscribes via .

  Like dafka99, I believe the template I used has an RSS widget built in and I used that.

  Any ideas? Do I need to use something like Feedburner in order to see total RSS subscribers?

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  dafka99 · Member · Jan 14, 2010 at 1:21 am

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  Here’s a response from Anthony at tech support:

  Hi,
  Although we do not provide a listing of RSS subscribers, you can see how many syndicated views (views from an RSS feed) you have per post –

  Find Your RSS Feed

  Best,
  Anthony
  Automattic | WordPress.com

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  annebingham · Member · Feb 17, 2010 at 7:40 pm

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  But iwhy/i doesn’t WP track RSS subscribers? {hopes I got the code right!}
  Is it impossible?
  Is it technologically too complex?
  Is it too expensive to implement?
  Is it just low on the priority list?
  Did the person who was working on it get another job?

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  annebingham · Member · Feb 17, 2010 at 7:42 pm

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  Urg. Sorry. {blushes} Misunderstood the whole backtick thing, obviously.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 17, 2010 at 9:01 pm

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  @annebingham
  Volunteers answering forum question ie. your fellow bloggers have no role to play in corporate decision making or being apologists for the decision makers. It seems to me that you ought to be contacting Staff directly. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/