New Feature: Use Feedburner to track your feed

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September 1, 2009

We made it really easy to use Feedburner to get analytics about who's reading your feed. Just burn your Posterous RSS feed and add the new Feedburner feed address to your site and you're off.

Grab the address from Feedburner:

Then add it to your site settings:

The next time you go to your site the feed icon will link to your Feedburner feed! You can find more setup instruction in our help section.

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Posted by brett gibson

Comments (50)

Sep 01, 2009

(``-_-´´) BUGabundo said...

WIN :)

Sep 01, 2009

Mario said...

Nice!!

Sep 01, 2009

Wesley de Souza said...

Wow, I was thinking about this integration hours ago! Posterous with consumer mind reading... haha

Sep 01, 2009

John said...

Awesome feature, thank you Posterous

Sep 01, 2009

Carsten Knobloch said...

love it

Sep 01, 2009

Thomas Arie said...

Niceeee!

Sep 01, 2009

Pedro Thomaz said...

NICEEEEE :D

Sep 01, 2009

Michael Castellon said...

Still waiting on theming and customization :)

Sep 01, 2009

Phil Hollows said...

How about opening this up to all third party RSS stats services, like feedblitz (www.feedblitz.com/rssfaq.asp)? Blogger, another Google service, allows you to choose any third party service - not just FeedBurner.

Sep 01, 2009

Alexey Gornostaev said...

Very easy to setup and very useful. Thanks!

Sep 01, 2009

Tim Kowalewski said...

It's a good addition, but I'm also still waiting on theming and customization :)

Sep 01, 2009

Игорь Денисов (Igor Denisov) said...

Great, thank you!

Sep 01, 2009

AppsFire Team said...

AWESOME!

Sep 01, 2009

Maskil said...

Thanks, you couldn’t have made this any easier!

Sep 01, 2009

Andy Brudtkuhl said...

Love it! However I agree with Fred - would love to be able to use feedblitz as well

Sep 01, 2009

AppsFire Team said...

one question though, does it work also when you have already customized your posterous with your own url? like with our blog blog.appsfire.com?

Sep 01, 2009

Andrew Ledwith said...

Feedburner integration was the number one thing I wanted to see Posterous add. You're awesome!

Sep 01, 2009

brett gibson said...

@AppsFire Yes, it should work fine with using Posterous on a custom domain.

Sep 01, 2009

sascha assbach said...

:) thank you

Sep 01, 2009

AppsFire Team said...

@brett Thanks! btw we need a threading system in comments!

Sep 01, 2009

Alexey Gornostaev said...

Now if we could see the number of rss subscribers in the manage section or user profile on posterous. Do not know if it is possible.

Sep 01, 2009

Kahlil Lechelt said...

Killer!!

Sep 01, 2009

Cloud said...

Great, I had been waiting for this! Custom domains, feeds and analytics are making it easier to switch to Posterous. I hate to sound like a broken record, but some CSS control would certainly seal the deal :)

Sep 01, 2009

Andreas Wålm said...

Gold!!

Sep 01, 2009

Susan Beebe said...

Yay!! Cool idea :)

Sep 01, 2009

Mario said...

theming and customization p p p p pleaseeeee :)

Sep 01, 2009

Daniel Schildt said...

Just moved to my Posterous blog Feedburner stats to test how it works. Integration looks easy, hopefully it also works well.

Sep 01, 2009

Judd said...

Thanks, Brett. That was easy integration with feedburner

Sep 01, 2009

Michael Lynton said...

it's one thing after another with you guys. rock on!
themes...?
maybe option for disqus comments? that would be slick.

Sep 01, 2009

Chentegt said...

hey guys! I have a question not related to this topic, but about posterous.

Can I autopost my tweets to posterous? Is there any way? If not, are you gonna add it in the future?
Thanks a lot!

Sep 01, 2009

Scott Watermasysk said...

Are there any plans to add support for feedburner's MyBrand feature?

Sep 01, 2009

Denton Gentry said...

This is great, but doesn't allow us to use the FeedBurner MyBrand service (i.e. have the RSS feed be http://feeds.mydomain.com/xyz/rss)

Sep 01, 2009

Mahendra Palsule said...

I integrated Feedburner, and THEN moved my Posterous to my own subdomain. Will the feedburner feed still work or do I need to set it up again?

Sep 01, 2009

Patrick Ostertag said...

It's cool. I add my posterous feed to feedburner. You're welcome http://feeds.feedburner.com/X0x04patPosterous

Sep 02, 2009

(``-_-´´) BUGabundo said...

Denton sure it does. See http://feeds.BUGabundo.net/bugabundo-posterous

Sep 02, 2009

René Fischer said...

Is there any chance to use this with Feedburner MyBrand (http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mybrand) activated? I want to enter my own Feedburner link (http://feed.renefischer.ws/streamingminds) but Posterous doesn't accept that URI :-(

Sep 02, 2009

Simon Barber said...

+1 for the MyBrand service. Would really like to be able to customise the whole url, not just the last part. Thanks so much for your continued improvements.

Sep 02, 2009

Svartling said...

So now Posterous is PubSubHubbub enabled via Feedburner! Cool. One thing though, could you automatically do so all that already subscribed to the original feed will be converted to feedburner subscribers? Blogger is doing that, so maybe you can do the same?

Sep 02, 2009

Steve Cornelius said...

Very nice. Thanks!

Sep 02, 2009

Eric Johnson said...

Thanks for this, guys - awesome!

Sep 02, 2009

Josh Gard said...

I've been waiting for this feature since switching to Posterous from Tumblr. This was the easiest setup of Feedburner I've done, and it works perfectly. Thanks for this!

Sep 02, 2009

brett gibson said...

Thanks everyone for the FeedBurner MyBrand suggestions. We'll have to look into that. It looks like you can still use the feed (because MyBrand feeds have a feeds.feedburner.com equivalent), though I realize it's not the same.

Sep 07, 2009

Joel Gascoigne said...

Absolutely awesome! You guys are doing a fantastic job with Posterous, keep it up. I aspire to create a startup as fast moving as yours :)

Sep 09, 2009

Nathan W. Bingham said...

Thanks for Posterous. I've just made the move and I'm loving it.

Is there a possibility that Feedburner stats + Posterous subscribers could be displayed on our Profile pages? I know if people turn on the FeedCount setting in the Publicize section of Feedburner, that it's then a simple call to get the latest subscriber number.

Sep 10, 2009

René Fischer said...

@Nathan: Very good idea. Would be great to have this feature :-)

Sep 17, 2009

Johann Burkard said...

Super cool, need to enable this for http://media.io

Sep 18, 2009

rain lewis said...

Thank you for this new feature. This is very helpful to us users.

Sep 18, 2009

Keegan Mullaney said...

What about FeedBurner links that don't start with the feeds.feedburner.com i.e. what FeedBurner calls MyBrand?

Sep 23, 2009

Tiago Celestino said...

very good!

Jan 25, 2010

Raphael Fontes said...

Mine is not working. :( Feedburner says filesize over 512k, and I have no clue how to fix this. Used to work perfectly with my Squarespace account. Anyone?

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