Comments on: How To Track New RSS Subscribers Google Analytics in 3 Easy Steps

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[...] with a meta refresh and then tracking those clicks in Google Analytics. More on that can be found here but in my case, I decided I’d be content decided to use Feedburner to do my RSS tracking, so [...]

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[...] How To Track New RSS Subscribers Google Analytics in 3 Easy Steps | The Gospel According To Rhys [...]

By: c

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:44:29 +0000

what if the feed is subscribed to through an RSS link/shortcut in the browser address bar of a page ..
how would you get it, for instance, to count suscribtions from there .. or could this also go to the subscribe.htm page ?

By: Adrienne Schoenfeld

Adrienne Schoenfeld — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:46:59 +0000

Thanks so much for the tips. I’m going to give it a try. If I can figure it out..and I should be able to (after your easy step by step) then anyone can.

All the best!

Great Tutorial piece!

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Increase Feed Subscribers using Detailed Traffic Statistics — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:05:19 +0000

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By: ScarKord

ScarKord — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:06:59 +0000

Great article. Thanks!

By: Garry Tan

Garry Tan — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:06:32 +0000

Note that this solution breaks google reader and some feed readers for autodiscovery. Many feed readers, if relied on to follow your link rel tag to find the RSS feed, will choke on the meta refresh page and show no articles.

This is still a great way to track clicks for promos, etc. however!

By: ryan Fitz Gibbon

ryan Fitz Gibbon — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:38:49 +0000

how can you achieve something like this using blogger/blogspot?

By: Blekinge Guy

Blekinge Guy — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:51:38 +0000

Congratulations Rhys!

Thanks for a great tutorial . I will link to it from one of my sites.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:26:03 +0000

What about if you have multiple RSS feeds on the same website? Google Analytics only seems to allow you to set up 4 goals, which is pretty restrictive. Any thoughts on this?