Comments on: Check How Many Google Subscribers You Have

By: Simona Rich @ Personal Development Coach

Simona Rich @ Personal Development Coach — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:11:11 +0000

I was just searching for the information how to check my google subscribers. Thank you!

By: Stacy

Stacy — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:08:46 +0000

I am trying to figure out how many subscribers I have and I am having a hard time. What am I doing wrong?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:43:05 +0000

Perhaps, I’m missing something. How do I actually check for the number of subscribers?

By: Simon

Simon — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 18:37:25 +0000

That depressing more than anything…or maybe it doesn’t really matter, total feed count is all that really matters, maybe it might suggest something about your readership…interesting anyway!

By: josh

josh — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:23:35 +0000

i think using webmaster tools everything is posibble

By: Karen (Miscellaneous Mum)

Karen (Miscellaneous Mum) — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 06:48:13 +0000

Oh! That was a nice surprise :)

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:07:43 +0000

Thanks for the clarification Rick.

I’d actually love to use MyBrand – but as ProBlogger is on b5media’s feedburner account I’m told that we can’t have it on each of our feeds.

By: Travis Vocino

Travis Vocino — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:59:28 +0000

Considering Google owns Feedburner now, it’s only a matter of time before these services are merged and we start seeming more integration under the overall “Google Webmaster Tools” banner.

By: Chris Butterworth

Chris Butterworth — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:33:15 +0000

Thanks, Kabitzin. Now it makes a lot more sense!

Could the difference between the Feedburner numbers and the Google numbers be due to people who subscribe directly via Google Reader, without using the subscription option of the blog itself?

By: Jacob

Jacob — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:56:18 +0000

It might have something to do with updating it for everyone. This may be a Beta for certain people. OR…You may have just not deleted your cache.

By: Kabitzin

Kabitzin — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:54:58 +0000

Chris:

The subscriber stats are found in Google Webmaster Tools, not in Google Analytics (although I believe the two can be linked). In GWT, go to Statistics on the left-hand menu, and it will expand out; then click on Subscriber Stats.

By: Chris Butterworth

Chris Butterworth — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:06:57 +0000

What am I missing? When I log into GA I see my dashboard, but nothing at all about “subscriber stats”…?

Is there someplace else I should be looking, or something else I need to sign up for?

Thanks.

By: doug m

doug m — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:13:22 +0000

i’m going to have to check this out. thanks for the news darren

By: Kabitzin

Kabitzin — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:31:43 +0000

That is strange that the data doesn’t match between the webmaster tools and Feedburner, considering that Feedburner was bought up by Google. I wonder if the two will begin to get more closely intertwined in the near future.

I’m also glad that they made the webmaster tools page look nicer, because the green was not very attractive =D.

By: adam

adam — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:31:18 +0000

im reading you through google, darren =)

By: silvino

silvino — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:05:37 +0000

nothing to say, i don’t use google’s webmasters tools, but i must disagree with you, A. Taylor.

we should complain a lot!

besides their passion for great tools, that’s what keeps them moving … our feedback (even when complaining) is gold.

By: Rick Klau

Rick Klau — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:28:12 +0000

Darren – The discrepancy is most likely between people subscribed to a feed on the verified domain(s) that Webmaster Tools knows about (i.e., http://www.problogger.net/feed) and any other domains where your feed may be (i.e., feeds.problogger.net/problogger if you use MyBrand, feeds.feedburner.com/problogger, etc.). Since Webmaster Tools matches against the verified domain, it’s getting a subset of your total subscribers – whereas FeedBurner is seeing *all* requests to the feed, regardless of which alias the subscriber used to request it.

And yes, I’m in touch with the Webmaster Tools team. Stay tuned.

–Rick Klau
Google (FeedBurner)

By: A Taylor

A Taylor — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:34:50 +0000

But the Google webmaster tools are really maturing and we cant complain too much as the tools are free:)

By: The How-To Geek

The How-To Geek — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:18:39 +0000

These numbers are how many people subscribed to the feed with your actual domain name in it…

If somebody has subscribed to your feedburner feed, then it’s not included in the webmaster panel because it most likely doesn’t include your domain name.

This is mostly useful for sites that don’t use feedburner, or if you want to check how many people have subscribed to the comment feeds per article or per tag.

By: Ryan B

Ryan B — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:48:41 +0000

Quite interesting, but I am scared of my numbers. haha