Over on one of my other blogs, I finally set-up Feedburner. It wasn’t too difficult, but it gave me a nice surprise today!

I set up the feed yesterday so I’ve been checking back every so often to this annoying message about taking the bubble wrap off. Basically, it takes Google 24 hours to compose the initial statistics and release them.

And when I viewed the stats I was surprised to see that there are several subscribers to the RSS feed, even though that blog hardly gets any traffic at all.

I’ve got another blog with tons more traffic, so tonight I’ll be setting up Feedburner on that and then watching on Friday to see what the stats say there.

It is interesting though to use. For those who don’t blog and don’t use Feedburner, it basically gives counts of how many subscribers you have, which pages they have accessed and a few other factors, such as the browsers they are using.

But the fact that people are subscribing to the feed and using it to read posts is really great. It make me feel that somewhere out there are people wanting to read my blogs!

There are other reasons for wanting to apply Feedburner. Basically, there’s a theory out there that traffic brings Search Engine Optimisation success. Maybe more about that over the next month.

For now though, I’m just watching Feedburner!