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Google has a new feature that lets you see how many subscribers a given site has through Google Reader. This isn’t a measure of all subscribes to a site but just those subscribing through Google’s Reader (and probably personalized homepages on Google). For example, the number below for Technology Evangelist represents around 1/4 of the site’s total subscribers and for The Deets it’s showing around 1/5 of the total subscribers.
I’m sure I’ve missed quite a few. I put this together based on Minnesota sites I read or know about. I have not included subscriber numbers from traditional media sites (with the exception of blogs contained on media sites like Jason DeRusha’s).
Rank Readers Site 1 1410 Powerline 2 926 Pharyngula 3 599 Technology Evangelist 4 210 MNSpeak 5 124 Blogumentary 6 77 Minneapolis Metblogs 7 63 More Cowbell 8 51 Girl Friday 9 50 Roadguy 10 36 Chow & Again 11 36 St Paul Real Estate 12 28 Garrick Van Buren 13 26 Aaron Landry 14 24 Jason's Deblog 15 22 Tech~Surf~Blog 16 21 The Deets 17 21 MNBeer 18 19 Bex Huff 19 18 Big Time Attic 20 16 Doodledee 21 12 Real Estate Snippets 22 9 Afterglide 23 9 PF Hyper 24 6 bencredible 25 6 Twin City Sidewalks
How to Look Up Subscribers
Login to Google Reader (if you’re not already using it, you should be), click the “browse” link on the left, then search for blogs near the bottom of the page. The resulting page lists the subscriber data.
If you find blogs I’ve missed or want to share additional findings, please do so in the comments.
If you would like to make a comment, please fill out the form below.
Bear in mind, I subscribed to my blog 18 times… so you can’t really rely on that information.
153 for OIM.
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DeRusha – that’s okay, I watch the WCCO news like 5 times in a row to bump your nielsen’s, too.
Looks like mediation has 35 subscribers.
Thanks for compiling this, Ed!
Wow. Thanks, Ed. You’re rocking with TE and Deets!
What about Metroblog? (too busy to check right now) Oh and buzz.mn.
http://railspikes.com is a Minnesota-based technology blog with 294 subscribers via Google Reader, which would be #4 on this list.
I cant see how many people are subscribed to my site the way you mentioned. I think I might be missing a step to see the stats?
According to Feedburner, as of a couple minutes ago, it appears that I have 18 subscribers using Google Reader. Then again, I have trouble understanding Feedburners ever changing stats.
I just checked mine and it looks like I’m at 62 for:
http://www.wynia.org/wordpress/feed/
Screenshot.
we’re 132, but I don’t want Sidewalks to get kicked off the list
whats this rss you speak of?
my blogs so one-point-oh it might as well be hosted on geocities.
I have 12 subscribers…that’s pretty cool to know…
Who knew I had 42 subscribers at MNCR?
Much as I might disagree with their politics, you might want to add Captain’s Quarters, Minnesota Democrats Exposed, and SCSU Scholars to the list, as their totals put them squarely in the top 25 as it currently stands.
Ahem.
Here’s a pretty good list of Minnesota blogs.
Someone should compile the numbers based on that list; and by “someone” I mean, “anyone but me.”
wow! I have 1032 subscribers by feed reader and only 36 of them use google reader? Love the list, it has my faves on it.
I was curious how Bloglines numbers compared with Google Reader, so I checked the number of readers for the local blogs in my feeds:
MnSpeak – 186
Metroblogging Minneapolis – 60
Overheard in Minneapolis – 59
Behind the Mortgage – 42
Chow and Again – 35
Weapons of Mass Distraction – 33
Girl Friday – 32
Aaron Landry – 19
Mediation – 13
The Deets – 13
Uptown Mpls Blog – 12
Doodledee – 10
L’Etoile Magazine Blog – 6
Keep in mind this is only Google Reader rankings. There are many blogs not on this list that receive hundreds of readers a day.
When I looked myself up (afterglide), it said I had 21 subscribers. I noticed your link went to my old address (…blogspot.com). I wonder if they keep those as two separate blogs.
Wow. Nothing brings out the comment crowd like posting a list of blogs. This is a great lesson for Technology Evangelist on how to build web traffic and buzz!
Unless I somehow screwed up, I am sitting at ten. I guess I don’t count because I don’t sit at the cool kids table.
Weird. I look up Garrick Van Buren and it says 39, not 28. I look up me it says 47, not 26. The Deets says 38, not 21. Now I’m confused.
Did everyone just add a bunch to their reader today?
Aaron, you’re not going crazy. Google changed how they calculate feed counts today.
For blogs I missed, sorry about that. Some are ridiculous oversights, like OIM. Others are new to me and are now in my reader. Thanks for pointing them out.
And, as “some guy” points out above, this only represents a small fraction of the traffic to any of the above sites since it’s only counting people who happen to subscribe to the site through one popular RSS reader. It’s missing all other RSS options, email subscriptions in some cases, and direct visits to the site.
“Wow. Nothing brings out the comment crowd like posting a list of blogs. This is a great lesson for Technology Evangelist on how to build web traffic and buzz!”
Nothing brings bloggers out of the woodwork like other people talking about them. My ears are burning and my ego is vibrating!
My whopping readership via Google is anemic. :grins:
I’m amazed that I have 7 readers. This is a pretty cool feature to boost my ego.
14 from Google Reader, 10 from Bloglines. A fraction of the people who are still doing it the old way. I would be interested in knowing if the use RSS is becoming more widespread.
Minnesota Lawyer Blog comes in at 13… w00t!
PDD has 40 Google Reader subscribers. I believe that puts us in 10th place. Duluth is Minnesota right?
using Feedburner’s overall RSS stats, More Cowbell has 519 total subscribers.
Starfire – AWE SNAP!
Although I think Jason and I are both guilty of this sometimes too, I agree with Jason that this post seemed to end up being a lot about getting comments and conversation than it was real usable statistics.
But hey, now that we’re talking about it, someone should figure out some more realistic stats. Or is that pointless?
also, unless Feedburner is out of wack, it things that my Google readership is 228:
http://www.morecowbell.net/images/mc-feedburner.gif
I have a list of 1800+ MN based RSS feeds that includes the sites mentioned in the comments here.
Is someone has the talent to script a ranking our of that, let me know.
starfire, I forgot Duluth was in MN after seeing the surfing photos on your site the other day.
This is so confusing. I have one particular entry listed at 1,015 subscribers, but my blog is listed as having 10. And both have the same URL.
Stupid technology.
You should see the waves on the big lake today. The Kayakers are having a ball.
while were talking duluth…Marty Weintraub at Aimclear has 126 by my count putting him around five by google reader statistics.
That’s OK, I have more dial up readers than any of you assholes!
I thought I was the only one who read my blog via Google. Who knew?
I agree with Kyle on this one – when you use the browse search mechanism it seems to find bits and pieces…while a burnt feed packs everything together…one search I did returned 75 users, one returned 29…I wonder if there’s a way to find them using total feeds through feedburner (though i imagine then that everyone would have to use the service…)
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what kind of subscribers? I have 48 through google reader…. but maybe they aren’t in mpls., so they don’t count