Working at Home on the Internet

A Milestone for Working at Home on the Internet

101

That’s the number of Subscribers to my RSS Feed. It may not seem like much to some of you, but I really would like to Thank Each and Every One of You Personally for helping me reach this Milestone, but that would be impossible.

So, instead I thought we might take a look at what Feed Readers you use in order to access my feed. Stats from FeedBurner.

As you can see, Bloglines seems to be the first choice of quite a few people, followed by Thunderbird in the Feed reader Category. But the largest is “Other” Feed readers.

So, see if you can find your choice in the list below.

Bloglines Bloglines is a web-based aggregator that makes it easy to keep up with your favorite blogs and newsfeeds. With Bloglines, you can subscribe to the RSS feeds of your favorite blogs, and Bloglines will monitor updates to those sites.	23
Thunderbird Thunderbird is Mozilla’s next generation e-mail client. Thunderbird makes emailing safer, faster, and easier than ever before with the industry’s best implementations of features such as intelligent spam filters, a built-in spell checker, extension support, and much more.	14
Windows RSS Platform This represents a subscription from the Microsoft Windows RSS platform. The actual client can vary, but your feed is being regularly checked and read.	8
FeedDemon FeedDemon enables you to quickly read and gather information from hundreds of web sites without having to visit them. Don’t waste any more time checking your favorite web sites for updates. Instead, use FeedDemon and make them come to you. Written by Nick Bradbury, creator of TopStyle and HomeSite, FeedDemon makes RSS/Atom feeds as easy to access as your email.	7
My Yahoo A web-based newsreader that allows you to select and manage RSS headlines within a My Yahoo! account.	6
NewsGator Online NewsGator online is a free web-based aggregator with a clean user interface that makes it easy to arrange and track your favorite news feeds. Newsgator supports all the major feed formats and has a number of additional features for ranking feeds, getting recommendations, and permanently saving specific feed items.	6
GreatNews GreatNews is a downloadable RSS desktop client for Windows. GreatNews is optimized for “full page reading” so that you can scan through a number of articles quickly without having to navigate between feed items.	4
Netvibes Netvibes allows you to create a personalized home page incorporating different kinds of weather, sports, news, product content and RSS/Atom feeds	4
NewsFire Another very elegant RSS reader for Macintosh users. NewsFire has quickly grown in popularity with its first few releases. Suppports both RSS and Atom as of version 0.2.	4
A Java-based feed reader There are a number of feed readers, some quite sophisticated, some hacked together, that only identify themselves as having been built in Java and provide no further information about their identity. Thus, this particular “category” of feed reader is a catch all for one or more readers that are only partially identifying themselves when accessing your feed. If you know people are accessing your feed through a client that you don’t otherwise see in this list of clients and aggregators, it’s quite likely that the client is either sending no identifier or using this catch-all java identifier.	3
Firefox Live Bookmarks Live Bookmarks is a new technology in Firefox that lets you view RSS news and blog headlines in the bookmarks toolbar or bookmarks menu. With one glance, quickly see the latest headlines from your favorite sites. Go directly to the articles that interest you — saving you time.	3
Rojo Rojo (pronounced like Mojo with an R) is a web-based service dedicated to helping Internet users efficiently manage online content and information flow. Due to a bug with the way Rojo is reporting subscribers for some feeds, we’re temporarily disabling the Rojo count in subscriber numbers. Rojo is aware of the issue and is working on it. Once the fix is in place and the numbers are accurate, we will resume including Rojo’s subscriber count here.	3
Vienna Vienna is a freeware, open source RSS/Atom newsreader for the Mac OS X operating system	2
Zhuaxia Zhuaxia is a socialized RSS reader for Chinese web users	2
BlogBridge BlogBridge is a desktop feed reader for Windows, Linux and Mac. BlogBridge provides a full suite of feed reading tools including feed search, discovery and categorizing capabilities that are unique to BlogBridge	1
BlogCarnivalRedirector/1.0	1
FeedReader FeedReader is a freeware Windows application that reads and displays RSS feeds. It supports the RSS formats 0.9, 0.91, 1.0 and various extensions such as Dublin Core. FeedReader does not support Atom.	1
Google Feedfetcher From the Google description: Feedfetcher is how Google grabs RSS or Atom feeds when users choose to add them to their Google homepage. Feedfetcher collects and periodically refreshes these user-initiated feeds, but does not index them in Blog Search or Google’s other search services. Google does not currently report the number of subscribers to your feed when it requests the feed, so the number of subscribers you have on Google home or Google Feed reader may be underrepresented by an unknown amount.	1
NetNewsWire NetNewsWire is an easy-to-use RSS Web news reader for Mac OS X. Its familiar three-paned interface - similar to Apple Mail and Outlook Express - can fetch and display news from thousands of different websites and weblogs, making it quick and easy to keep up with the latest news.	1
SharpReader SharpReader is a popular feed reader for Windows that handles all RSS versions and Atom. SharpReader has a number of powerful features like support for HTTP Authentication, making it possible to subscribe to authenticated feeds, drag-and-drop feed subscription, and keyboard navigation between content items.	1
YellowJacket/0.9 (Social Site Monitor HiveSpy.Com) AntFarm/1.000.1 HiveSpy.Com/1	1

And I can’t leave out those of you who Subscribe through E-mail, Firefox and Internet Explorer. Even though you are not included in the stats above, you Are included when I say Thank You All.

If you haven’t yet subscribed to the RSS Feed, now is your chance to be 102, 103, 104…

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Thanks to You All for your Support!

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February 3rd, 2007 at 03:05pm | Posted by Joe | Attitude, Community, FeedBurner, RSS, Stastics | 2 reader remarks | Print This Post

Thanks Steve Johnson

for Fixing IE7 Access to My Home Page

 I owe a debt of gratitude to Steve Johnson of The Fast Lane. If you can read this and you are using IE7, it is due to the efforts Steve put in yesterday in helping (he did all the work) to resolve the errors I was getting on my own, and it seems everyone elses, Internet Explorer after upgrading to WordPress 2.1.

Even though I had followed the instructions to the installation to the letter, I still encountered some serious problems.

The first and most important problem was an Error that anyone using IE7 received when trying to access the main page. It seemed that the whole page would load and then an error stating that IE couldn’t access the page. Individual pages and single posts had no problems and loaded normally.

Steve found that there is some kind of conflict between the StatCounter javascript and one or more other applications. Once the script for SC was removed, the page would load normally for IE users.

So, at this point I can’t count how many of you are visiting the Main page, but if you go directly to any article individually, I will know you were here.

 Other problems I have encountered so far:

The Forum is on hold do to the incompatibility with the Plug-in and WP 2.1

The Unchecker for Categories doesn’t work (actually, there Is No Default category anymore as far as I can tell).

Here’s a Big One, when you try to use Save and Continue using IE7, it is returning the same error I was having yesterday, “cannot access page…”.

I have yet to figure out how to put a Double Space between certain paragraphs, I used to be able to hit return twice and that was it, now, no matter what I do, I end up with a Single space.

There are a lot of smaller things I have encountered and some I haven’t found yet, so…

Is anyone besides me having as many problems with this Upgrade? What problems are you having?

Update: I found that it wasn’t the StatCounter itself that was causing the problem. It was the Combination of StatCounter and CrazyEgg within the same field that was causing the Error.

StatCounter has been re-installed alone in the index.php and CrazyEgg has been moved to the Footer. Both seem to be working according to design specifications at this point.

Update II: WordPress 2.1 Sucks… I can now access the Main page by bringing it up outside of WP. In other words, if I use the address bar, or a link to the Main page to access it . If I try to “view site” through WP I STILL get that stupid Error. I don’t think WP likes StatCounter or IE7 or both. That’s where it keeps Fucking Up…

Yes I am Pissed… I NEED SC and be able to View the Page And have Readers be able to Read the Page… I refuse to accept that WP and IE7 can’t get along. 80% of my readers use Internet Explorer in one version or another.

Sorry for the language, but this is upsetting me more than you would expect.

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Having Problems Accessing My Own Page

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Technorati Tags: Steve Johnson, The Fast Lane, WordPress 2.1, StatCounter, IE7, Plugins

January 27th, 2007 at 01:49pm | Posted by Joe | Community, Plug-ins, Stastics, WordPress | 6 reader remarks | Print This Post

I Need a Great Stats Package

 

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think I’m getting the Whole Picture. And you may not be either.

In looking at my FeedBurner Stats, as of today, it shows I have 71 subscribers to Working at Home on the Internet. Of course the are all feedburner.com/myblog, but in looking further into the statistics, I noticed this…

Web Browsers

Name	Hits
Firefox Although Firefox can be used as an RSS reader with its “Live Bookmarks” capability, these hits represent users clicking on your feed using the Firefox browser and do not contribute to your circulation numbers.	59

I realize FeedBurner only tracks what is subscribed to through their service. But, what are they picking up in the Web Browser stats? Is it people who are subscribers through Firefox on straight RSS feeds without the FeedBurner extensions? Are they FeedBurner links? (if so, why are they not included in overall stats?)

I subscribe to some Blogs using the straight RSS myself not using the FB link. Am I missing something from others who subscribe that way? How about Other RSS Services?

Add to that, the confusion of using StatCounter for Page Statistics. When I show a couple of hundred hits for the day, I’m not sure if that reflects those who are using RSS readers. Or does it?  Because there are often a lot of hits from Google reader or Bloglines, not to mention E-mail subscribers. Quite often there are hits from “No Referring Link”.

Does that mean that these visitors are being counted twice when I add FB and SC Stats? Or are they counting the people who view the page through their RSS reader (FeedBurner or not?) and click on the page itself? Are they somehow picking up on people who view through their reader and not actually clicking on the page?

I am so confused with so many Statistics Services.

What I am looking for is a Statistics Package that can give me accurate statistics on RSS Subscribers, no matter what service they are using. Pages visited, unique and return visitors for the Blog URL. Search Engine results, where they came from and what they were looking for. Where they go when the click away from the Blog. All of the information that is  available on using most of the standard services in tandem, but accessible in One Place.

Have any of you heard of such a package that will include everything an Online Business needs to keep track of the Total Traffic on a Blog or Website? If not, someone should write one, they would probably be able to make a good deal of money with such a thing. (Oh, and making it a plug-in for WP would be nice)

For a really good answer to my question, read DavidC’s comment in reader remarks. He explains the reality of Stats Packages.

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My Choice for a Total Stats Package

January 9th, 2007 at 06:06am | Posted by Joe | FeedBurner, RSS, Stastics, Suggestions | 13 reader remarks | Print This Post