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Google Reader [announced][3] this morning that it is now providing subscriber counts for feed publishers. The counts make it easy to see who is reading your feeds through Google Reader or the Google Personalized Homepage. In a blog post of the the subject, the Google Reader team says that in future more RSS-enabled Google features will also be reporting stats.
Additionally there is now a [Google Reader Publishers Guide][2] which has some tips and suggestions for optimizing your feeds and reaching a wider audience. There are also [cut-n-paste buttons][4] to provide your readers with an "add to Google Reader" link. The FAQs section also explains how to read the stats through RSS tracking services like FeedBurner.
If you use FeedBurner to track your readers, you'll now be able to see how many are using Google Reader and Google Personalized Homepage to view your feed. According to an [announcement of the FeedBurner Blog][1], the new Google numbers will be available starting tomorrow, February 17th.
If you don't use FeedBurner you can dig through your server logs and see how many Google Reader subscribers you have by looking for HTTP header requests from Google.
What would be really nice is to see these stats rolled into Analytics or Webmaster Tools, but for the time being this is a step in the right direction and it's good to see that Google Reader is listening to user feedback.
[1]: http://blogs.feedburner.com/feedburner/archives/2007/02/the_google_effect.php "Google Now Reporting Subscribers"
[2]: http://www.google.com/help/reader/publishers.html "Google Reader: Tips for Publishers"
[3]: http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2007/02/one-subscriber-two-subscribers-three.html "One subscriber, two subscribers, three..."
[4]: http://www.google.com/webmasters/add.html "Add to Google button"
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