Thanks, Jay, good point on the flexibility of a feedburner feed. So, are there any stat-hounds in the house?
Jim ihatetodance.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Jay dedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 1) What are the must-have stats? wordpress.com gives page views but > > not unique visitor counts and it does not give clickthoughs on its feed. > > im not the best one to answer. > but if you look at Federated Media...they seem to charge by page views: > http://www.federatedmedia.net/authors/index > > Your video stats would probably be the click throughs. > > > 2) Should I stick with the wordpress.com feed or install feedburner? > > wordpress is slowly bringing back feed stats. They currently let me > > see how many hits on a particular post come from its feed and they'll > > eventually let me know the total number of feed subscribers. But > > wordpress is rolling out new features slowly. Feedburner will give me > > clickthroughs. Are there other compelling reasons to go with > > feedburner? I realize I may want to use feedburner to capture email > > subscribers. > > feedburner is nice because if you ever decide to change your feed in > the future, you can switch it out...and viewers wont know the > difference. > this is a nice feature of Feedburner. > > > 3) Do I want to install a stat counter and, if so, which one should I > > install? The only stat counters that wordpress.com supports are > > sitemeter, statcounter, shiny stats and activemeter. I lean towards > > sitemeter—anyone having issues with sitemeter? > > dont know this one. > > > 4) If I switch to a self-hosted blog with wordpress.org, will that > > cause a problem? What do I need to know about transitioning my stats? > > im not sure i understand your question. > whatever stat counter you use should work on whatever blog you use. > to me, stats are often fuzzy and whatever you choose to present to the world. > Im sure there are some stat hounds on this list who can school us both. > > jay > > > -- > http://jaydedman.com > 917 371 6790 >