Feeding the Feed
On Monday I posted about the number of subscribers I had to my feed. At that point, I had three wonderful people who had signed up to receive my blog on their blog readers. By today, that number has sky rocketed to 9, which means I am only one subscriber away from hitting the big 1 0.
I want to thank those six wonderful people who took the risk this week to sign up. I realise that I am still trying to find my voice and that my blog is very much a work in progress. Therefore, it means a lot that people are willing to join me on my journey and suffer through my experimentations.
To get a better idea of what type of posts people enjoy the most, I have created a poll which is under my profile on the right hand side of the screen.
Please vote and let me know which topics most appeal to you. As always, I encourage comments, so if you have any suggestions, please write and let me know. I want you all to be brutally honest about what you like and don’t like about this blog.
Edit: The number of subscribers has just dropped to seven. I guess that means I am now 3 away from the big 1 0.
If you have liked what you have read, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
November 24th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
Hang in there, it takes a while! The subscriber numbers do tend to fluctuate, so it’s hard to pinpoint a “real” number. I find they usually dip over the weekend - there must be a lot of people that read their feeds at work.
November 24th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
So does Feedburner track the number of people who have downloaded your feed that day or does it track the number of people who have put your feed into their reader?
I have so much to learn about blogging.
November 25th, 2007 at 4:58 pm
Hi Riayn
wOOt over 20! It’s kind of complicated - Darren has probably done the best job of explaining:
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/08/16/why-does-my-feedburner-subscriber-count-fluctuate/
Say someone subscribes in Bloglines, but doesn’t actually fire up their reader for a day, then as I understand it, they are not counted as a subscriber until they next fire it up - feedburner doesn’t register them because they haven’t asked for the feed that day.
November 25th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
Thank you so much for the link. Darren did a fantastic job in explaining the fluctuating feedburner numbers.
The reason my feed numbers have risen so sharply is that I put my feed on Live Journal, which is where I used to blog and a lot of my friends from there have signed up. They much prefer being able to read my blog from their LJ friends list than coming and visiting my blog.