FeedBurner Drops FriendFeed As Blog Subscribers
Posted by: dragonblogger // Category: bloggingI was reading over on Famous Bloggers first thing this morning about how Feedburner no longer shows FriendFeed subscribers in the Subscriber count for a blog’s RSS Subscribers. DragonBlogger.com had 131 subscribers before the change and 131 subscribers after the change. For some reason I have 3 blogs listed with Feedburner and my Feedburner subscribers all only showed up under my personal blog JustinGermino.com. This made my personal blog which gets 1/15th the traffic as DragonBlogger.com and yet it had almost 600 subscribers.
Personally I am glad that this change was made and hope it stays permanent, I had written a post about bloggers Falsifying RSS Subscribers by setting up fake emails or paying people in the Entrecard marketplace to sign up under their blog RSS subscribers via email in bunches to make their feed statistics appear higher to advertisers and readers. FriendFeed was just another way to fluff up your RSS subscribers and make your blog appear to be more popular than it is among readers. Anyone can join FriendFeed and befriend hundreds of other users, even if 10% follow and friend you back you could easily take a new blog from 0 RSS readers to hundreds in less than a week with this tactic.
So at least this statistic is now a little closer to being accurate, but it still doesn’t take into account the fake email subscribers and robot accounts that still can be used to falsify RSS feed subscriptions. This is why Alexa Rank, RealRank and Google Analytics are much more accurate in showing your blogs popularity and reach among readers than using Feedburner. Anything you can “tweak” or falsify to inflate is something that can’t be trusted as a good indicator of blog traffic.
-Dragon Blogger
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December 27th, 2009 at 11:12 am
People just need to work harder to get more aweber subscribers and feedburner subscribers. Greg Ellison
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December 27th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
I’ve often wonder why people have to falsify things such as their RSS stats. They’re only kidding themselves. I don’t even bother showing my subscriber stats. I want people to read my blog because they enjoy it, not because of some perceived value is gained by displaying stats and such.
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December 28th, 2009 at 2:46 am
Mine were missing from the count yesterday but have returned after checking just now.
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December 28th, 2009 at 3:49 am
Hi dragonblogger,
I received the following tweet yesterday from @FeedBurner As many have noticed there appears to be a reporting issue with FriendFeed subscribers. The cause is currently under investigation.
This morning it looks like the counts are returning to their former status. Take a look at yours and let me know.
Thanks.
@Ileane
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December 28th, 2009 at 4:18 am
Has it been resolved yet?
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December 28th, 2009 at 8:11 am
Looks like it was resolved, and FriendFeed subscribers added back in.
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December 28th, 2009 at 8:20 am
good that friendfeed is dropped, atleast now the numbers will be a little more accurate…
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December 28th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
Good to hear my friend nd I couldn’t agree more. I was stunned in the first place at so many “legit” bloggers going gaga over the whole friendfeed boosting number thing.
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January 3rd, 2010 at 3:07 pm
I knew at the end that the problem was just a “Clutch”, and now it’s back to work again!
I have removed Feedburner from FriendFeed but it’s still showing the big numbers, I don’t know when it drop them from FeedBurner!
read Hesham´s article about Have any one Joined John Mayer and Matt Cutts on Digital Cleanse?
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