Comments on: Are Feedburner RSS Reader Stats Misleading? How to Game Feedburner

By: gholli ilu

gholli ilu — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:04:51 +0000

I have a question about this, what is feedburner all about ?

I can see it on many blogs, but dont know about it..
Do there are any earning oppurtunity with feedburner

By: Sue

Sue — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:13:10 +0000

I don’t know how but suddenly one day Feedblitz added a whole bunch of new subscribers to both my blogs. I laughed about it and thought I’d share this with you. You might want to check your stats and see if any numbers have strangely jumped up.

Funniest part is I don’t even have a link to Feedblitz on found anywhere on my blogs.

By: Richie

Richie — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:32:33 +0000

Well.. in simple words, FeedBurner isn’t a money making machine for you. It’s mainly a RSS feed tool (a website promotion machine). You can use your own ideas and FeedBurner’s services and tools to make money. If you don’t know about RSS, Google is full of nice articles about RSS.

Now, if you need full definition of FeedBurner, here you go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FeedBurner

By: GMS Man

GMS Man — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 08:11:20 +0000

Yea its similar to google reader I suppose, just been around a lot longer.

By: Jeffery Jones

Jeffery Jones — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:52:35 +0000

I don’t pay much attention to how many RSS readers a blog has. Back in the day my friend and I used to game toplists for our Tribes clan. Since then I don’t put much stock in any counter thing.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:00:06 +0000

I wish I could figure out a way to get more legitimate readers. I don’t want to cheat the system but any help would be nice.

By: Timon Weller

Timon Weller — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:10:12 +0000

It’s amazing how many people do take notice of this counter stats though, it builds reader trust most importantly whether they sign up to your RSS or not..

By: Danr

Danr — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:53:41 +0000

It is unfortunate that there are cheaters out there. I had no idea you could by feedburner stats. I do think that have over 100 readers and displaying it adds a certain amount of legitamacy to your blog. People are more inclined to subscribe if other are already doing it.

By: ABC

ABC — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:13:27 +0000

Well I really do not pay much attention to RSS and Blogs…I just can hope that i can count and a way to get more legitimate reader.

By: Andy || Web Developer

Andy || Web Developer — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:22:09 +0000

feed burner helps to generate traffic but there is no use unless you get some nice amount of subscribers.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:37:37 +0000

I think RSS stats are so easily manipulated. I saw some guy from India on DigitalPoint forum selling a service to give the buyer 10 new RSS subscribers per day for one year. Count 3650 fake subscribers over a year and it looks slow grown. I guess what he was doing was signing up 10 new Gmail accts per day and subscribing with Feedblitz for all his clients. I’m sure he had some kind of automated script because when I PM’ed him he said he already had over 300 clients!!

By: Frank Vogel

Frank Vogel — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:45:35 +0000

Andrew has right! I saw the same things!

By: jasmine

jasmine — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:00:06 +0000

Me too! I would rather them to have a better experience through my blog than using unorthodox method to lure them here.

By: Chris "Money" Mansfield

Chris "Money" Mansfield — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:46:45 +0000

You can totally game the Feedburner stats. I thought this was relatively common knowledge. I have a friend who inflates all of his subscription stats and posts the stupid icon on his blog showing X,XXX subscribers when in reality he has only 10% of whatever number is displayed.

By: Jessica "Breastfeeding" Solomon

Jessica "Breastfeeding" Solomon — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:09:22 +0000

I, for one, have no reason to game Feedburner stats. My subscribers are interested in breastfeeding information and that’s what I deliver. No contests for feed subscribers, etc. For me, doing that would be unethical. However, it was interesting to learn how the system is gamed. Thanks for the information, Dave!

By: Web Milionário

Web Milionário — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:27:58 +0000

That was very interesting, now I’m wondering about the numbers of same MMO blogs that I visit. I already knew about the contests, but they could be using the other methods as well.