> how would i be able to tell how many people have signed up for the > channel or added it to their readers...
There's no way to get a *true* count of unique subscribers... between all the republishers and intermediate aggregators out there, there's gonna be a lotta approximation going on. If you're determined though, you could try something like this: (1) On your subscription page, append a new UUID to the feed's URI on each request. (2) On your feed-generation page, add some code to sniff user-agents. If it spots Bloglines or another big, web-based aggregator and the URI contains a UUID, send a 301 redirect to a version of the feed URI without the UUID. This will give you a couple results. First, individual aggregator users will have their subscriptions uniquely tagged and trackable within your web analytics package of choice. Second, the sniffing code will keep Bloglines and Company from bombarding you with excess requests. -- Roger Benningfield JournURL http://admin.support.journurl.com/ that sort of thing. Is it like > just coding a counter on an onclick? but that's just a click. on the > setup or help page, i showed them the channel url... what if they just > copy and pasted it to their reader without clicking on it.. that's one > less "hit" > > suggestions? > thanks ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:229261 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
