Okay, so maybe I’ve been a little slow on the uptake of this news item, but I’m beginning to wonder if there will soon be anything left that Google doesn’t own…
I discovered this recently when I logged into my Feedburner account to check my RSS feed subscriptions and received a message asking if I wanted to migrate my feeds over to the new Google Feedburner. Thinking that it was going to be an inevitable eventuality anyway, I figured I might as well get the task done and forget about it.
Well, it appears there is a price for being the early bird (although apparently you only have a month to get this done before you feeds stop working so perhaps it was for the best anyway)…
1. I’ve just discovered that Google Feedburner doesn’t track site visitors like my old Feedburner account does. Will they correct this in future? I’m not sure. I haven’t really googled the topic. Although, since Google already has Google Analytics which gives a pretty comprehensive coverage of visitor tracking, I’m not sure if they’ll bother. Dang, that means I’ve got to configure my blog sites for Google Analytics. The good news is that there is a pretty simple step-by-step explanation on how to do it by Bryght.
2. I’m getting all those messages I used to get with Feedburner when I first signed up for an account regarding problems with my feed. I honestly don’t have enough technical knowledge to understand why or what’s really going on but the problem seems to fix itself fairly quickly without any intervention required by me. I hope that means I can ignore it until it eventually goes away completely…
3. I really don’t know if there is any correlation to this but it seems that after I migrated my feeds from Feedburner to Google Feedburner, my RSS readership dropped. Was it because of the migration? Or did I really lose that many readers, I don’t know. I read a blog post about it that says it can take up to a week for your true RSS readership to be reflected. Additionally, the algorithms which they use to calculate the number of RSS readers you have is different between Google FB and Feedburner.
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