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Stephanie Howell

reading, organizing, shopping, momming too close to the sun. Home is wherever the Army sends us.

google reader question

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Quick question today…do you subscribe to my blog using google reader?? It looks like my readers all suddenly disappeared and I have no idea how it happened. I'm thinking maybe it has something to do with my .com vs my typepad??

Any way, I wanted to ask y'all if any of you are reading this through Reader. Or if maybe you USED to read through reader but then your feed disappeared?

HELP!! 🙂 any advice/ideas would be greatly appreciated.

xoxo

s

Comments

  2. I read via google reader and I can’t see anything that has changed. When I clicked on the link to comment, it brought me to your .com. Hope that helps!

  6. I happily read you through Google reader and no problems when you switched to .com. Keep those kiddo pics coming!!

  12. I read through reader, always have. Just updated my link when you moved to the .com. I think you might have lost some viewers just to the fact that more people are using blog readers than ever before. People are catching on, and that just means they still love you, just differently.
    Here’s a chuckle: I just tried to rub off some spots from my screen, over in the sidebar. Ahem, they’re part of your background. oy.

  26. I use internet explorer. I have never heard of google reader, but I am not the internet expert that’s for sure!

  27. just want to add that I think there is a difference depending on if the person subscribed via RSS feed, or via becoming a follower.
    not sure what that difference would be, or which I did since it’s been so long though

  30. I read through Reader, too, clicking over whenever I need to comment… don’t worry about me; I’m not going anywhere! I enjoy your blog too much!!!

  32. I read your blog through Google Reader and have done so the entire time I’ve been reading it…not sure exactly how long that has been but I know you only had 2 daughters when I started reading, so it’s been at least a little while!

  36. I read through google reader and I’ve never noticed anything changing. Your blog is on the top of my list so I would definitely notice if it wasn’t there. 🙂

  50. Google Reader user here – no problems with your feed. Clicked through to comment, and no problem with that either. Of course if your feed has disappeared from some other sort of reader or something, I suppose you might not hear from those people, since they may not be seeing your post?

  51. I read through Google Reader and eagerly await each of your posts. If it disappeared I would find you!!!

  72. Hi Stephanie –
    Google reader was updated about 2 weeks ago. Is that about the time you noticed the change? Maybe the reader metrics are not getting back to you?
    I subscribed a long time ago – and the URL is the same. (So if someone wanted to subscribe to you in Google Reader today this is what they should enter: https://www.stephaniehowell.com/my_weblog/)

  80. I follow you through Reader too, but I alwayw have (well since bloglines said they would shut down anyways)
    Love to read you and see the girls grow 🙂

  82. Rats . . I’m more technolgically ignorant than I realized. No idea what google reader even is!! But I love your blog, have been following it for several months now and have not experienced any problems. Keep up the inspriational work!!!

  84. I read primarily through Reader (but occasionally click a link from your Twitter feed or Facebook — just depends where I’m “hanging out” online.)

  85. Google Reader but thinking about using Feedly because of the digi show recommendation last week. I wondered if people started using Feedly because of the recommendation to read their google reader posts and maybe that doesn’t show up.

  86. I read your blog through Google Reader, once in a while I’ll link off of FB. No issues that I’m aware of. 🙂

  90. I read through Reader. soooooooo easy! I do wonder how that affects a person’s “stats” though. And I certainly never see sidebar advertising, which in the past played a big role in the ways blogs operate.
    jen

  92. Neither You are listed as a place to go for inspiration on my blog and every time you up date I get notified on my blog and I follow vis there.
    I can see now you have changed from typepad to .com & I have not updated yet I have been transferred to this post automatically.

  102. Hey Steph, I just read this post on Google Reader, so no problems through there. Do you have a lot of people who get linked to your blog through Facebook instead of google reader? I know when google changed to the new format, some feeds got lost in the shuffle.

  105. Google Reader reader here and have usually had no problems reading your blog.
    But – I do have to say that ever since a couple weeks ago, when Google updated Reader, I’ve had problems going directly to the pages when reading blogs through my iPhone. When I read this blog post through my iPhone, for example, I clicked over to try to comment, and it came up with a page of machine code. I had to manually type in your .com address to actually see your page.
    I’m now on my PC commenting, and of course that’s not an issue. Good luck figuring it all out – we’re still here, and I for one love your blog!

  107. I have been reading through Google Reader for some time now and haven’t had any issues with it. Perhaps since more people are using blog readers, there is less traffic and fewer comments? (I should comment more, since yours is always the first blog I read!)

  109. I subscribe to you through Google reader and received this post as usual! Hope you can figure things out soon

  118. I subscribe through feedburner although I usually don’t wait for the e-mail. You are my morning cup of coffee so to speak. I will tell you that my e-mails for your updates (along with a bunch of other blogs I read) stopped coming for a few weeks. Now they seem to be back on track. Thought it was me but now,maybe not!

  120. I use google reader also, no problems! I love reading about your family, so sweet and lovely and reminds me so much of my own, although we’re not in the military anymore. Keep up the love and all the crazy parts about parenting will be added to the list of “What was I (or she) thinking?!” And then your grandkids will have a good laugh about it.! 🙂

  123. Just one more google reader reader 🙂 love your blog and no changes in the tech or me either. Thanks for your fab blog

  126. There was a UI change recently — not sure if that’s the reason you’re not seeing things where you used to expect to see them? I see that you have 1914 subscribers through Google Reader.

  134. I’ve been using mobile rss on my iPad. That way I can keep up with the blog reading while also chasing my toddler. It’s more, er, mobile. I think this is using the google reader, though.

  143. I just recently switched over (subscribed) to receive your feed via email – which is coming through just fine. The “bookmark” for your site on my favorites points to the typepad address and I just tried it and it worked just fine too.
    I love your blog and it’s one of the (VERY) few I’ve subscribed to.
    And isn’t it fun trying to figure out (and stay on top of) all this techno-stuff?! (not)
    xo

  144. I subscribe through e-mail since I’m more connected to email than Google Reader. But just know that we’re here!

  153. I have your site on my favorites ( at the top of the long list!). When it pops up it reads typepad. I don’t use google reader, that I know about anyway. Love your family and you.

  154. Hi! I read you through Google reader, but I still get emails in my gmail saying that you have a new post…so I might be one of the ones that is still listed as a subscriber.

  155. Me too! Google reader and it’s showing up fine;) Sure am glad too cuz your one my fav that I check 1st when I log on!!

  160. Yep. Clicked over from Google Reader where I’m getting your updates just fine.
    Like Shannon, my guess is that maybe your numbers somehow went away when Reader updated its look and interface. Hopefully, that’s a bug they’ll fix. (The changes, overall, are NOT very positive, if you ask me.) Your posts are coming in fine for me, though.

  163. yep google reader. I just don’t comment as much anymore because its in google reader. Still working here!!! (:

  167. I read your blog via GReader too and find no problem here, but in some cases yes we no longer have followers/following on GReader and neither can’t read their posts. Sad no? 🙁

  168. I don’t know if someone posted this already, 167 comments is too many to check…but I know that my feedburner number drops back to zero about once a month then pops back up again to where it was again the next day…not sure why it does it…perhaps its a glitch in the matrix between typepad and google? Tatum xx

  172. I have a Google account but I don’t know about Google reader. I merely have a list of blogs and I just stop by every day. Sorry to hear about this problem. I mean who needs more problems?

  173. I read via Google Reader and I’ve got it still set up with your typepad url. I thought I would need to change it to the .com, but it was fine. Hope this helps! 🙂

  174. No problems. I have noticed today though that in IE i cannot see any pictures via Reader, but everything is fine in the Chrome browser.

  178. I have you in my Google reader, but I also have you bookmarked in my computer’s favorites. I get to the blog from both.

  182. i read in google reader as well. the only time i click through to see your blog is when i want to make a comment.
    have a happy thanksgiving!
    xo
    k