Possibly Ways to Track RSS Readerships

Brian Peddle of SavedByZero.org discusses possible ways to track readers of Rich Site Summary (RSS) feeds. It certainly won’t beat an e-mail subscriber list and e-mail open/clickthrough tracking as ways to know who reads your content.

One Reply to “Possibly Ways to Track RSS Readerships”

With the method I discuss you can track how many times your feed was read. If you want to track clickthroughs you can simple alter your links to include a tracking code.

Example: If you link to this blog posting.

https://digitaldeliverance.com/MT/archives/000257.html

in your rss feed you could do

https://digitaldeliverance.com/MT/archives/000257.html?rssFeed=true

or any querystring.

As for knowing the actual user, you are right you cannot beat email tracking.

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