Feedburner - Increases blog traffic?
Dec 52006
During the last two weeks of November I was getting approximately 650 unique visits per day. This weekend I implemented Feedburner on the Phoenixrealm blog and have since averaged over 1000 uniques per day, plus RSS subscriptions have now also doubled. I can only credit this extra traffic to Feedburner.
Feedburner also has plenty of options to optimise and publisise your RSS feed, and gives interesting stats on subscriber readers and aggregators amongst other things.
Although I need to give this more time to bed in, the initial signs are all good 
Joost also has an interesting utility to graph your Feedburner circulation data.
Popularity: 35%
Does feedburner provide these stats or is your blog overall getting more pageviews?
-It is likely that feedburner could be counting the number of times your site is downloaded from RSS reader clients. (You may not have had the capability to count these before) I commonly browse from the RSS feed.
Or it could be that you deserve the increase in traffic.
Let me know if the feedburner thing ends up being true in the long term though.
After taking over the responsibility for Phoenixrealm from David I am sure the blog took a big hit in the number of daily visitors. At the end of the day David is a professional blogger/media guy who writes interesting things for lots of people. This is a first attempt at blogging for me, and my content and style may have disappointed some. After people had finished hitting the unsubscribe button
the logs (below) show a fairly constant 400 visitors for the last couple of weeks of November.
AWstats:
13 Nov 2006 46 284 1426 2.80 MB
14 Nov 2006 235 608 3137 8.37 MB
15 Nov 2006 443 1108 9964 29.61 MB
16 Nov 2006 402 1018 8609 26.20 MB
17 Nov 2006 481 1089 9590 29.59 MB
20 Nov 2006 416 929 9445 28.65 MB
21 Nov 2006 425 880 8622 26.92 MB
22 Nov 2006 424 855 8337 26.52 MB
23 Nov 2006 428 810 7414 23.95 MB
24 Nov 2006 402 947 7938 25.41 MB
27 Nov 2006 464 1054 8690 28.19 MB
28 Nov 2006 456 1214 9118 29.37 MB
29 Nov 2006 676 2672 9623 64.33 MB
30 Nov 2006 987 5579 12985 138.18 MB
01 Dec 2006 994 4632 12472 128.89 MB
04 Dec 2006 1096 5677 19638 165.61 MB
05 Dec 2006 1041 6441 17184 148.67 MB
At the end of November I let Feedburner manage the RSS feed, and this is the only thing I put down to the steady rise in traffic since then.
I will keep monitoring and update if anything interesting happens.
On another note, I put in some Adsense ads earlier today and have thus far made the princely sum of $0.89c - So no giving up the day job just yet
Gary, if you’d like; I can give you a huge free trial to GoStats. Just create a free account and then send me an email when you have (with the details) I will active an extended free trial period for you. You will be able to better compare the traffic stats with what awstats give you since GoStats has some great features which awstats doesn’t/can’t provide.
Richard, thanks for the kind offer. I will signup straight away, it will be interesting to see how GoStats compares. Many thanks.
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Not really understading how exactly FeedBurner helped you. Do you have any ideas behind how it helped you?