Wow. A few questions:
- I recently added RSS to my blog. The URL works but I don't advertise it with the icon. Should I?
- What do you use to track traffic?
I don't use the icon, but at the end of every article I have the "Follow me via RSS Feed" as a direct link to the RSS. As far as tracking the rss traffic, this graph is generated from my server logs. It is literally cat apache logs | grep my feed url | awk daily traffic | sort.
Note this shows me how many RSS readers have accessed my RSS daily. I can't actually track each person, although I have a report I'm working on for the end of the year.
Do you also have something like <link rel=alternate href=/atom.xml type=application/atom+xml> in your <head> element?
Things like this let me just throw homepages (or blog pages) at feed readers and they can discover all the different feeds available and I can pick one (although you really don't need more than one, generally).
