Title: do subscribers get updated when …
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# do subscribers get updated when …

 *  [nabs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nabs/)
 * (@nabs)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/do-subscribers-get-updated-when/)
 * i post a message on my blog do subscirbers to my blog get notified? is this an
   option ?
    thakn you

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 *  [Dgold](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgold/)
 * (@dgold)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/do-subscribers-get-updated-when/#post-345601)
 * Sort of! If your readers use RSS and subscribe to your RSS feed, they are automatically
   updated (they’ll see new posts in their RSS reader, or Firefox toolbar).
 * There is a plugin you can use, where people can subscribe for updates by email.
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/do-subscribers-get-updated-when/#post-345608)
 * As Dgold mentioned, ideally folks will subscribe to your RSS feeds to learn about
   new posts.
 * If you have some folks who don’t quite “get” that whole RSS thingy, you might
   look at [http://www.feedblitz.com/](http://www.feedblitz.com/) as well.
 *  [Dgold](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgold/)
 * (@dgold)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/do-subscribers-get-updated-when/#post-345739)
 * I think we’ve ALL got some readers who probably don’t “get” RSS yet (Okay, I 
   don’t really get it either, I use it a little such as live-bookmarks in Firefox
   and “web clips” in Gmail, which is under Settings > Web Clips, try putting your
   own RSS feed there if you use Gmail). What % are using a newsreader app separately,
   other than Google Homepage and that sort of thing?
 * RSS is not that widespread in USA yet, though it is getting more common.
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/do-subscribers-get-updated-when/#post-345745)
 * 🙂 True, adopting it is a bit slow, but folks really are getting the hang of 
   it. I use FeedBurner to make acquiring stats a bit easier. I also use Google 
   Analytics for web stats and can get a “total visitors” number (kinda) with both
   together.
 * Combining those, I see that 25% of my visitors are via the RSS feeds. Now, I 
   don’t (yet) have a way to figure out how many of those “become” part of the 75%
   web visitors. But soon…
 * So, of those 25%, here’s how they “consume” feeds:
 * Google Desktop – 40% (this always surprises me!)
    Live Journal – 6% BlogLines–
   6% BlogBridge – 6% “Other Readers” – 29% (I think these include Firefox, IE7,
   and more traditional ones) Java based reader – 6% Unknown – 6%
 * And I have 2 on FeedBlitz getting the emails. 😉

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