{"id":6124,"date":"2019-09-22T02:28:28","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T02:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/on-line-interactivity.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/22\/index-5-3\/"},"modified":"2019-09-22T02:28:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T02:28:28","slug":"index-5-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/on-line-interactivity.com\/blog\/index-5-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Index 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><body>&#13;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">&#13;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/on-line-interactivity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/abbtop.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"120\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<table width=\"800\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\" height=\"627\">\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" height=\"11\" width=\"790\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t  &#13;<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><![CDATA[<!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-5712520513640847\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 728;\ngoogle_ad_height = 90;\ngoogle_ad_format = \"728x90_as\";\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text\";\ngoogle_ad_channel =\"\";\ngoogle_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\ngoogle_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\";\ngoogle_color_link = \"0000FF\";\ngoogle_color_url = \"008000\";\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\n\/\/-->]]><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\"><![CDATA[\n        ]]><\/script><\/td>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n    <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"279\" valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#C2D5FC\" bordercolor=\"#CCCCCC\" height=\"602\" align=\"left\" bordercolorlight=\"#FF6600\" bordercolordark=\"#FF6600\">&#13;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" bordercolor=\"#111111\" width=\"100%\" id=\"AutoNumber1\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"100%\"><b>&#13;<br \/>\n          <font color=\"#FB7014\" face=\"Tahoma\" size=\"2\">Read Articles:<\/font><\/b><\/td>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n        <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"Tahoma\" size=\"2\"><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<a href=\"how-to-get-your-blogs-site-feed-listed-in-yahoo.html\">How To Get Your BLOGS Site Feed Listed In Yahoo&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n      More Article Pages&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"index.html\">1<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"index-2.html\">2<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"index-3.html\">3<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"index-4.html\">4<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"index-5.html\">5<\/a><br \/><\/font><\/b>&#13;\n      <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<td width=\"501\" valign=\"top\" height=\"602\" align=\"left\">&#13;<br \/>\n      <font color=\"#FF6600\" size=\"5\"><b class=\"titler\">Tracking and Measuring &#13;<br \/>\n      RSS Feeds<\/b><\/font><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n      \u00a0by: <font color=\"#FF6600\"><b class=\"author\">S. Housley<\/b> <\/font>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Measuring and tracking RSS while a fairly simple concept, is really &#13;<br \/>\n      anything but. Unlike websites, RSS have the added caveat of potential &#13;<br \/>\n      syndication, making accurate tracking a challenge to anyone but the &#13;<br \/>\n      extremely tech savvy. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>It is not unrealistic for marketers to want to know how many &#13;<br \/>\n      subscribers they have, which items in their feeds attract the most &#13;<br \/>\n      interest, or how many click-throughs are generated as a result of an RSS &#13;<br \/>\n      feed. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of 3rd party providers who focus on tracking the &#13;<br \/>\n      consumption of RSS feeds. Some solutions are rudimentary but likely &#13;<br \/>\n      sufficient for a small business testing the waters with RSS. Other RSS &#13;<br \/>\n      tracking solutions are more complex and while they can come close to being &#13;<br \/>\n      accurate, with syndication there is no solution that tracks with 100% &#13;<br \/>\n      accuracy. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Techniques Used to track RSS Consumption <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Small businesses can view web logs to provide information on how many &#13;<br \/>\n      times a specific file (RSS feed) is requested. The logs and information is &#13;<br \/>\n      rudimentary but will give a basic sense of a feeds success. Many 3rd party &#13;<br \/>\n      tracking options have additional tracking information available. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Hosting <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The most common method to track the number of feed accesses or &#13;<br \/>\n      individuals accessing a feed is to use a 3rd party feed host. Companies &#13;<br \/>\n      like FeedBurner essentially track feeds based on accesses. The downside to &#13;<br \/>\n      using a 3rd party like Feedburner, is that the url is a FeedBurner url and &#13;<br \/>\n      any PageRank or popularity associated with the url will benefit the feed &#13;<br \/>\n      host rather than the feed creator. Additionally, no distinction is made &#13;<br \/>\n      between unique views or syndicate feeds. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>FeedBurner provides a free no frills service to host RSS feeds and they &#13;<br \/>\n      have been proactive in circumventing user concerns. Recently implementing &#13;<br \/>\n      a service that eases users concerns about migrating from FeedBurner. There &#13;<br \/>\n      is a 3 step process for users interested in migrating from FeedBurner&#8217;s &#13;<br \/>\n      free service, implementing a permanent redirect, and url forwarding. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Details can be found at:&#13;<br \/>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burningdoorc.om\/feedburner\/archives\/001251.html\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#13;<br \/>\n      http:\/\/www.burningdoorc.om\/feedburner\/archives\/001251.html<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Some publishers, who were concerned about lock-in or wanted to retain &#13;<br \/>\n      control of the domain and feed urls often resist a hosting service. The &#13;<br \/>\n      new program FeedBurner Partner Pro is not free, but allows for users to &#13;<br \/>\n      point to their own domain, retaining complete control of their feeds &#13;<br \/>\n      without sacrificing statistical tracking. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The downside to using a service like FeedBurner is that some filtering &#13;<br \/>\n      applications used on corporate proxy servers block feeds residing on &#13;<br \/>\n      FeedBurner or other free hosts. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Redirects <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Companies like SyndicateIQ have more complex tracking solutions that &#13;<br \/>\n      generate unique urls for each subscriber. The tracking benefits to such a &#13;<br \/>\n      customized solution is obvious. Individual user habits can be monitored &#13;<br \/>\n      and any users abusing their access and inappropriately syndicating a feeds &#13;<br \/>\n      content can have their feed turned off. The downside of course is that the &#13;<br \/>\n      success of RSS is in a large part due to the anonymity. Users don&#8217;t want &#13;<br \/>\n      their personal habits tracked. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Considering the venture capital interest in these 3rd party hosting &#13;<br \/>\n      services. It is important to note that their value is in the data that &#13;<br \/>\n      they collect. As with any 3rd party service, it goes without saying that &#13;<br \/>\n      publishers should read the privacy policy carefully, be aware of who owns &#13;<br \/>\n      the rights to the collected information, and how that information might be &#13;<br \/>\n      used. It goes without saying that the value in many of the free services &#13;<br \/>\n      currently available lies in their aggregate data. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Uniquely Named Transparent Images <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Uniquely named transparent 1&#215;1 graphics can be added to the description &#13;<br \/>\n      field of an RSS feed. Users can use standard web logs to see the number of &#13;<br \/>\n      times the image is viewed and determine the number of times the feed was &#13;<br \/>\n      accessed. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Companies Specializing in Tracking and RSS Metrics <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Pheedo &#8211; Pheedo creates tools that enable individuals, organizations &#13;<br \/>\n      and corporations to promote, analyze, and optimize their weblogs and &#13;<br \/>\n      content. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pheedo.com\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.pheedo.com<\/a>&#13;\n      <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>SyndicateIQ &#8211; SyndicateIQ&#8217;s position in the content distribution chain &#13;<br \/>\n      provides clients a set of analytics. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.syndicateiq.com\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#13;<br \/>\n      http:\/\/www.syndicateiq.com\/<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>FeedBurner &#8211; FeedBurner offers a full range of services to help you &#13;<br \/>\n      build awareness, track circulation, and implement revenue-generating &#13;<br \/>\n      programs in your feed(s). <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedburner.com\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#13;<br \/>\n      http:\/\/www.feedburner.com<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Each individual using RSS needs to make a decision of the extent and &#13;<br \/>\n      importance of the analytics they require. 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