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Re: Thoughts on blog subscriber counts

digitalframeguy09 — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:28:07 -0000

Broadcast your self!

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Re: Thoughts on blog subscriber counts

Mark Dykeman — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:31:39 -0000

Thanks Adam, I really appreciate the support. :)

Re: Thoughts on blog subscriber counts

Mark Dykeman — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:31:16 -0000

It is what it is. :)

Re: Thoughts on blog subscriber counts

Adam Singer — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:54:17 -0000

Feedburner count is pretty meaningless. It's not how many, it's who is reading your stuff :)

With that said I hope I've helped your numbers get up at least a little, I try to share your stuff when I can Mark - I'm one of your 'raving fans.'

Re: Thoughts on blog subscriber counts

Ian M Rountree — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:49:03 -0000

FeedBurner counts hits on the page that come through RSS. I ran a test on this a few weeks ago - I subscribed to a sandbox blog in five places, and hit the page on different days from these places in different numbers. Firefox live bookmarks, an RSS pull on another site of mine as a control, Google Reader which I almost never load unless it's on purpose - the days I omitted loading Firefox and browsed with Chrome, that hit disappeared. Having intentionally counted my hits, the results were surprising. Inflating numbers works, but it's so damned time consuming, even as a week long test.

Incidentally, to the optimist, this means that 2447 number I see on your chicklet may mean many thousands of people subscribed who simply haven't hit your site today.