How many people use the RSS feed on my blog?

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  tryingtobegreener · Member · Aug 12, 2008 at 8:24 pm

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  I understand from another post that you are unable to know how many people use the RSS feed on your blog. It also said it’s “possible if you re-route your subscribers via a Feedburner.com feed”

  Does anyone know exactly how to do this? I have a Feedburner account but took it off my blog in the sidebar. Now I’m thinking I should put it back on but I’d like to have it so if someone chooses the RSS it goes to Feedburner so I can see the numbers.

  I’m very new at this so if you know what I should do, please spell it out step by step. It would be greatly appreciated!

  Thank you!

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  tryingtobegreener · Member · Aug 12, 2008 at 8:26 pm

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  oops, almost forgot! My blog is:

  http://tryingtobegreener.wordpress.com

  Thanks!

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  raincoaster · Member · Aug 12, 2008 at 8:47 pm

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  Use a theme that does NOT have a built-in feed button. If you use the Meta widget, take it out of your sidebar.

  Add the RSS widget in your sidebar, putting in the URL of your Feedburner feed.

  That’s it!

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  tryingtobegreener · Member · Aug 12, 2008 at 9:11 pm

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  Raincoaster,
  oops – it’s feedblitz that I have. I put in the RSS box into my sidebar and put in the code for Feedblitz in the url box within the RSS sidebar option. When I checked my blog, though, it just showed code and “unknown”.

  What should I do? Please help if you can. Thank you!

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  raincoaster · Member · Aug 12, 2008 at 10:22 pm

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  I wouldn’t use Feedblitz if I were you. It’s Feedburner that gives you stats, isn’t it?

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  raincoaster · Member · Aug 12, 2008 at 10:28 pm

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  What is the exact URL you are putting in the RSS widget?

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  tryingtobegreener · Member · Aug 12, 2008 at 11:04 pm

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  Raincoaster,
  I signed up for Feedburner and used this code in the RSS option in widgets:

  http://feeds.feedburner.com/wordpress/AakA

  I took it off, though, because when I then checked my blog it listed posts from my blog in that area. Please help if you can.

  Thanks!!!!

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  raincoaster · Member · Aug 12, 2008 at 11:35 pm

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  Yes, it will do that. That’s how the RSS widget works. If you want it to show only the most recent, you just reduce the number of post titles it displays when you edit it.

  If you don’t want it to show titles of your posts, then you need to use a text widget, following the instructions in the FAQ and link the image to your Feedburner feed.

  Put your feed in your sidebar

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  tryingtobegreener · Member · Aug 13, 2008 at 12:58 am

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  Raincoaster,
  Please excuse me for still not getting this right. I went to the link you gave, copied the code but put in my blog name in the area, and then put this in a text box in widgets. You can see at my blog that it just has the title I gave it and nothing else. How do I fix this? I’d like to have the RSS image and then when it is clicked it goes to Feedburner. If you could, please spell it out step by step.

  I really appreciate the time you’ve given me so far!!!

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  tryingtobegreener · Member · Aug 13, 2008 at 1:49 am

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  I think I got it to work – thank you!!!!

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