Title: Track RSS ?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Track RSS ?

 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/track-rss/)
 * Has anyone come up with a way of either tracking their RSS feed, or asking would-
   be subscribers to register in some way before getting access to the correct url?
   
   I know that with many newsreaders they will auto-discover the feed, but can this
   be altered ? I ask because I just checked my server log, after reading around
   this subject and realising it was way over my head, and I must have about 20 
   feeds going out, but I only know about 3 (friend’s IP’s). For me it’s not a bandwidth
   issue – though it could be for some – and I am wondering just *who* is so interested
   in my ramblings. With the feed being so ‘open access’ are search bots automatically
   snapping these up ? Is there a way to hide the feed and only let somone subscribe
   should they leave their name / email ? Is there another way to find out, other
   than server logs, who is taking the feed ? I’m not expecting a quick hack by 
   the way (though that would be lovely!), I guess it’s more of a discussion thing….

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 *  [Sushubh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sushubh/)
 * (@sushubh)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/track-rss/#post-34801)
 * I would be interested too! if i can control access to this file to the feed readers
   of my choice through robots file or better something to keep a track of access
   points! 😀
 *  [godrox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/godrox/)
 * (@godrox)
 * [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/track-rss/#post-35138)
 * Thought I’d resurrect this thread since I’m interested in this, too.
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/track-rss/#post-35139)
 * You could always run your feed through FeedBurner. More info:
 * [http://www.feedburner.com/](http://www.feedburner.com/)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_FeedBurner](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_FeedBurner)

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/track-rss/#post-35139)
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