Where can I find out how many RSS subscribers I have?

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  oddkitchen · Member · Aug 19, 2009 at 4:27 am

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  I have an RSS feed on my blog, and I’d like to see how many people are subscribers. Is this not possible, or is there something really obvious I am overlooking?

  Thank you!

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  raincoaster · Member · Aug 19, 2009 at 4:30 am

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  WordPress.com no longer gives that information out, I don’t know why. If you use a Feedburner feed instead of the one WordPress builds in, you can get stats for that one.

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  oddkitchen · Member · Aug 19, 2009 at 4:43 am

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  Thanks, raincoaster, I had the feeling WP didn’t offer that feature, or else it’d be clearly listed.

  Can you tell me if I have to discard my current subscribers when I move to FeedBurner, or if I can transfer them there?

  Thanks…

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  raincoaster · Member · Aug 19, 2009 at 5:14 am

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  You don’t have to give them up, but it’s difficult to coax them to change over. Just add the Feedburner feed to your blog and put the link in a text widget and hopefully the new people who sign up will sign up to that. If you’ve got your WP feed in a text or RSS widget, take it out. And if your theme has the button built-in, you might want to switch to a different theme.

  Signing up for a FB feed will not interfere with your existing WP feed in any way; that always plain works. But if you want stats, you definitely want to encourage people to use the Feedburner one, so do a blog post about switching over, and include the Feedburner feed link right in it.

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  oddkitchen · Member · Aug 19, 2009 at 7:03 am

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  I see. Thanks for the advice; this has been very helpful!