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Google began making changes to FeedBurner today by making TotalStats and MyBrand free, this is great news and I’ve requested the MyBrand RSS domain control change.

What I’m interested on seeing is if the next step is to integrate Google Analytics with FeedBurner Stats. I posted back in February about how FeedBurner will add RSS conversion tracking in the future so hopefully this will be released shortly as it would be an excellent feature for marketers. Tracking RSS subscriptions as conversions using pay-per-click is currently very difficult to estimate but this could become much simpler if Google Analytics is combined with FeedBurner Stats, especially seeing that the Google AdWords/Analytics integration has improved greatly since the recent update. This feature would also be a nice addition for Google too seeing that it’s something Yahoo Search Marketing or Microsoft adCenter couldn’t offer so easily.

I wrote a post on the FeedBurner forums yesterday asking how to track RSS subscriptions as conversions.

The reply from Dick Costolo confirmed that:
This is on our roadmap but not yet possible. We have four or five more things we want to add to site stats to make it “whole” and then we will begin to bridge this blind spot between site visits, subscriptions, and conversions from site visitors to subscribers and the crossover therein.

This probably takes us a couple/few more months as this also implies that we need to stop having two separate stats dashboards and create a common content-centric view of stats in which you see your subscription conversions and crossover traffic (eg, “28% of commenters are subscribers”). We are very excited about this, but as always, the good stuff takes time to build :)”

This sounds like an excellent feature and one which I would definitely be keen on using to track the type of traffic and keyword phrases which convert into RSS subscriptions.