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8:41 pm
March 16, 2011
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Andi B.
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I know this sounds dumb, but my new site mealplanrescue.com is my first wordpress site (previously used blogger). It has a blog on the site, and I don't know how to set it up for rss subscribers. Is there a plug-in that you guys recommend? Also is there a share plug-in that someone recommends?
Thank you!
Andi
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Andi B.
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9:11 pm
March 16, 2011
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Suba @ Wealth Informatics
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Wordpress itself has a feed, for example – http://www.mealplanrescue.com/feed but I would recommend you go to feedburner.com and type in your site. Feedburner will burn the feed and redirect your wordpress feed as well. After that is done, you might want to install a feed redirection plugin like FD Feedburner Plugin to make sure all you can keep track of all the feeds and subscribers.
Here is a step by step guide on setting up feeds – http://www.wpbeginner.com/begi…..wordpress/
For sharing I use sharethis but sociable or sexy bookmarks are popular as well.
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6:21 am
March 17, 2011
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The Single Saver
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This is slightly off topic, but I have a Feed Burner question. When I log on it tells me how many subscribers I have. I would think this number would stay consistent but it seems to move around a lot – one day I may have 31, the next 26, the next 28. Do people really come and go from feeds that much? Also, it tells me how many I have "reached". What exactly does this mean? Usually it is a little less than my subscribers, but sometimes it is MORE which doesn't exactly make sense to me. Can someone explain this more for me? Thanks!
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7:08 am
March 17, 2011
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Sustainable PF
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FD feedburner is great. For the longest time I thought we had 60 subscribers but FD feedburner proved that we had many more!
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10:10 am
March 17, 2011
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Eric – PersonalProfitability.com
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Moderntightwad et al – I used Feedburner Feedsmith plug in for a long time and was happy with it. Now that functionality is built into Thesis so I don't need the plug in.
Single Saver – The analytics for Feedburner have become less and less useful over time and dramatically change every day. Most popular blogs used to show a Feedburner subscriber widget and took it down for that reason. Subscriber count is more of an art than a science, and each reader pings Feedburner in a different way, which makes it hard to count. The only part that doesn't fluctuate is the e-mail subscribers.
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10:56 am
March 19, 2011
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LaTisha @YoungFinances
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Feedburner only counts the times your feed is "fetched". For example, if you have 10 people subscribe to your RSS feed, those are your subscribers, but only 5 go to their readers and check it daily, they will be the only ones included in your "reach" count.
They explain reach as the number of people that actually view or click links in your feed.
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7:53 am
March 21, 2011
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Eric – PersonalProfitability.com
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Feedburner also includes usage statistics if you add their code to your site. That is usually a bit more accurate.
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