MyBlogLog Tracking Update

A while back I blogged about how to track MyBlogLog profile views. It was a simple trick looking for hits to the associated RSS feed on your site coming from a set of Yahoo!-owned IP addresses. Now there is a minor update.

Until very recently (today even!), the user agent header of those RSS requests was blank. This was annoying me because it's a bot that's not identifying itself properly. I even emailed MyBlogLog support about the issue. As of this morning, I'm seeing a new user agent:

This is much better and I hope they keep it. I'll be watching this closely, and if it looks like it's a permanent change, I'll update the tip to reflect this.