This post is not about how to increase the actual number of subscriber, it's more about how to make sure all your subscribers are counted in your statistics. Why do you need to make sure all your subscribers are counted in your stats? Well it's always more fun to write when you got more subscribers and sponsors/advertisers tend to spend more money on blogs with more readers . This little tip requires that you use Feedburner for your feed statistics and that you got Wordpress for your blog.

Even if you everywhere on your blog got your Feedburner counter and a link to your Feedburner feed some of your subscribers will be left out of your statistics. That's possible because some users will subscribe to your feed using the RSS feed button found in the address bar of their web browser:

This can of course be fixed easily with a little plugin that is now a part of Feedburner (this was a plugin created by an Feedburner enthusiast). Don't sak me why but I find it hard to find the plugin on their web site

The installation is really easy:

1. Download the plugin from Feedburners web site (actually from the google.com web site )
2. Upload the plugin to your plugin directory and activate it in your admin area
3. Visit the settings of your blog and fill in the location of your Feedburner feed. If you got your Feedburner feeds under your own domain name like we do it will still work:
   

By just installing this plugin on one of our blogs almost doubled the number of subscribers shown in the Feedburner statistics overnight:

Did the plugin have a similar effect on your Feedburner statistics?

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