Wondering if you found a solution to the problem you mentioned in this article: “My major issue with starting up w/ feedburner is not being able to track my existing subscribers considering they’re already subscribed to “leechon.com/feed””?

I’m seeing the same issue.

Thanks,
cnt

Why a low click through rate?

The focus of this website isn’t necessarily to get click troughs. This website’s focus is less on getting people to the website and more on getting the content of the website to the people (traffic vs syndication). In a way the content of this website is focused as an FYI type of setup. It’s there to inform and inspire. Not so much focus on engagement.

What are some factors that show less feed subscribers for Muslim Matters and MR?

It could be that the feedburner setup was after the website was already established. The way the syndication happens is: [website content] >> [host rss] >> [feedburner] >> [readers]

All those people who subscribed to the host rss before feedburner are prob not being tracked.

Also another factor that could come into play is that the amount of content that is being syndicated. Personally, I don’t like subscribing to sites where the full content isn’t FULLY syndicated. It’s just an annoyance having to click away from my RSS reader. This is the case w/ MR and Muslim Matters. There are MANY more like myself in this regard.

Possible cause for so many RSS subscribers

Most of my search engine results are due to the review I did on the Canon Camera (FS100) and the media conglomerates article that sister Shirien wrote early on. People see an article these, get interested and click subscribe. It’s a large pool of people who are interested in that sort of stuff.

Feedburner

My major issue with starting up w/ feedburner is not being able to track my existing subscribers considering they’re already subscribed to “leechon.com/feed” — feedburner does have an option called MyBrand Pro which I’m in the process of experimenting with.

If all goes well with the MyBrand Pro feedburner setup, I’ll lay out more of that here.

Just give feedburner a try. They are used by all the top bloggers and it’s extremely reliable. It gives you daily statistics. It also tells you what RSS syndicator they use (Google, Outlook, Firefox Live Bookmarks, etc.).

It’s better to get accurate statistics instead of superficial ones.

Feed subscriptions are basically the amount of people and websites that have subscribed to this website’s RSS feed.

Alexa ranking as to do with how many incoming links from reputable websites the website in discussion has. Alexa ranking is directly related to search engine optimization and ranking — which is a reflection of the website’s traffic stats. RSS feeds has to do with syndication of content and is in fact a representation of people who DONT come to the website, but get the content delivered directly to them.

For those who are waiting for the ship to come in, and keep waiting – my response to them is that the world doesn’t revolve around them. Ships and trains are continuously moving according to their own schedule. What they need to do is seek out the vehicle who’s destination-path will get them closer to where they ultimately want to and jump onto it – even if its moving at 60 MPH.

The ship, train and car they jump onto probably wont be a one-stop deal. The path to any destination will require many course corrections along the way. The idea is to keep progressing in the general direction as fast as the opportunities around us that Allah-swt allows.

Alexa Web rankings for leechon.com } Rank: 454,135
Alexa Web rankings for muslimmatters.org | Rank: 146,749

In fact if you look at my blog ranking here, you’ll see that I also have a rank ahead of leechon.com. I rank at 348,190. I only have under 500 rss subscribers.