Many of the big online Kahunas like Smashingmagazine and Mashable are displaying how many subscribers their RSS feed are having.
Displaying the number of feed subscribers can be a good idea from a marketing perspective since many subscribers to some users equals that the site has big credibility.
Feedburner is one of the most popular RSS tools, and Feedburner also offers offers a widget that can be used to display the number of subscribers to your RSS feed. However since the Feedburner widgets uses javascript to fetch feed statistics from Feedburner, these widgets can potentially slow down your site.
In this post you’ll learn how to use the Feedburner API and PHP to fetch feed subscription data, and display these data on your site or blog in a efficient way
A RSS feed is a great way of distributing your content to new and existing users. RSS feeds are a fine alternative to email newsletters, since users can read the feeds when they want, and modern feed readers givers the users great overview over many feed sources.
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