A New Metrics Options - FeedBurner
Posted on January 5, 2007
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FeedBurner announced their new StandardStats service yesterday. This one could be the holy grail: Both Feed stats and Site stats. One-stop shopping.
I’ve just signed up, so nothing of use to share yet. In fact, I cut some corners on the installation of the necessary javascript so I’m curious to see if I borked it all or saved myself 5 minutes.
See, if you are currently using their FeedFlare service at your site, the javascript you installed for that is also used for StandardStats. I use FeedFlare for my feed, but not for my site, thus I needed to install the tracking script.
Now, the directions for installing it can be a bit confusing. Essentially you need to add it in the WordPress Loop so that the “flares” show up right by your posts. Since I have no flares, I decided to just add the javascript to my theme’s header.php right below the opening <body> tag. I’ll see how well that works out once numbers start showing up in my reports.
Stay tuned…
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Let me know how it works in the header.
It won’t show up in a feed that way will it?
I’m not in love with where it is in my blog, I want it at the bottom of the post, not the top, but when I put it at the bottom I like where it winds up even less. I got tired of fooling with it last night so I’ll play with it some more, but the instructions it gives for setting it up are very good, but wind up with it being in a very ugly place, right under the title before the post. Blech.
It’s working great for me.
The flare thing has two options — one for feed, one for site. I only have feed option turned on. I don’t currently want any flares on my site directly.
You probably want to look at having it right below the_content() in most cases. To track stats and show the flares, it’ll need to go on every page that shows posts. So, at a minimum index.php. If you have a single.php, archive.php, category or categoryx.php be sure to edit those too!