Re: MSNBOT??
"Bill Kearney" <[email protected]>
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--- In [email protected], "scorpiusb2000" <scorpiusb2000@y...> > I need a bit of info here. I have currently gotten 14562 hits from a > number of RSS news aggregators. Can any one here give me a general > idea as to how many people are reading my articles? Example: msnbot > has picked up my RSS feed 2997 time. What is MSN doing with the info? Make sure you look at the logs to see what type of HTTP transaction took place. 200 events vs 304 make a big difference. If the content of the feed itself isn't changing (and it's a static file) then consecutive requests from the same source "should" generally result in 304 responses. If it's a dynamic script-driven feed then unless the script handles things right it'll almost always be a 200 response. It's generally "better" bandwidth management-wise to use static files. That is unless the site needs things only a dynamic feed would provide. Most sites don't thus static and it's ability to let the HTTP server handle the 200/304 response are usually more conservative in both CPU and network bandwidth. As for what a feed consumer "does" with the info, that's not something RSS is designed to report (and rightly so). Sites that desire additional consumption "feedback" should work to structure themselves to take advantage of the return links for their logging analysis. As in, partial content feeds with feed-specific links as a way to invite readers to return to the web site and use it's analysis tools to determine how the content was regarded by the audience. -Bill Kearney Syndic8.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-dev/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/