Many of you would like to know the number of RSS subscribers certain websites have for various reasons such as:
Many sites hide their Feedburner counter (Chicklet) until they reach a high number of subscribers.
The technique I’m going to show you will only work for sites that have enabled FeedCount in Feedburner:goog
So, how do you find the magic number? Simple. Copy and Paste the URL below into your browser replacing “IDName” with the Feed name:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/IDName
For example, The Feed for Web Designer Online is http://feeds.feedburner.com/WebDesignerOnline so if I wasn’t displaying the number of subscribers, you can simply go to:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/WebDesignerOnline
To find out!
Ahmed Bhula
I'm an SEO Specialist working for Just Search, one of the largest SEO Firms in the UK. I also run Web Designer Online.
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Informative Article. Do you recommend any plug-ins or widgets for Wordpress or Magento to display your RSS counter?
For displaying the counter, I would recommend hard coding it into your theme. The most important point is to make sure all your RSS subscribers use the Feedburner URL otherwise they wont be counted in the number. A good plugin to redirect all your feed addresses to FeedBurner automatically is “FeedBurner FeedSmith”
Like your site by the way!