Would you like to know how may people are visiting your site via RSS feeds?
If you are using FeedBurner to syndicate the RSS feeds of your blog, you can now easily track all the incoming traffic from feed clicks through Google Analytics.
Just open your FeedBurner dashboard, click the title of your RSS feed and choose "Configure Stats" under the Analyze Tab. Tick the options that say "Item views", "Item click" and "Track clicks as a traffic source in Google Analytics" and save.
In addition to click counts, you’ll also know the exact source from where that click may originated.
This is useful data because, for instance, it will help you understand if people who subscribe to your feed inside Google Reader are more engaged than your "My Yahoo!" subscribers (or vice-versa).
Traffic from clicks inside your RSS feed will be included under "All Traffic Sources" and "Campaigns." in your Google Analytics reports. Select "Ad Content" from the segment drop down in the traffic source data table and it will show you the incoming traffic from your RSS feed segmented by specific feed readers or email clients.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/track-rss-feed-clicks-with-google-analytics/10985/
Tags: Archives, feedburner, google analytics, rss, Internet
Reader Comments
A useful post BUT I have had this set up this way for a while but the stats are NOT available in Google Analytics.
Any ideas?
Written by Mike on 11.13.09
Thans for this Article, It is very intresting and with pro knowledge for all webmasters, and It will definetely included in feedburner.com in the help or fac section, I did all the things as per the details mentioned in this article and I am very thankfull for this…
Written by Shaikh Izaj Ahmed on 11.14.09
Are there any alternative available for webmasters not using feedburner for RSS feeds? If so please share… Thanks
Written by ranveer on 11.14.09
Thanks for the useful tips…
But as Mike says, my setting are also like this when I checked, except “Item views”.
Written by Nimal on 11.14.09
Dear Amit,
From google webmastertool in crawl error section i am getting massage “Restricted by robots.txt 61 ”
will this effects my post in serach engine ranking or results.
Can i have to do any thing to minimise the restricted URL?
Please help.
I have taken action as you said in this article.
Thanks for the information you share.
Written by prasanna on 11.14.09