It took just a little less than a week for Google to return the FriendFeed friends count back into the Feedburner subscribers for a blog RSS feed. This change was noticed this morning after checking my blog sites. I don’t know whether it was an initial glitch or a deliberate removal previously, but clearly many people were divided and the subscriber count restored.
I still stand by the fact that FriendFeed is completely inaccurate being reflected as blog RSS subscribers, people who follow your account on FriendFeed are no more blog RSS readers than Twitter followers or Facebook friends. Maybe some of them are, but majority do not visit your blog and therefore should not reflect in the RSS subscriber chicklet. It artificially inflates the RSS subscriber on your blog, and people who socialize on FriendFeed can make their blogs appear to have more readers than they actually do. Notice DragonBlogger.com still has 131 readers before and after the change, this is because for some reason out of the 8 blogs I have listed on Feedburner all of my FriendFeed subscribers went to my personal blog JustinGermino.com (for reasons I don’t know).
So what do you think? Are you glad your RSS stats are backup to higher numbers, or do you think that Google should have left FriendFeed off of the subscriber count?
-Dragon Blogger
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December 28th, 2009 at 10:45 am
Hi friend,
Happy to see the feed count number back:D…. Whatever the feed count number all we need is regular visitor to our blog.. This can be done by writing great content
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December 28th, 2009 at 11:08 am
This is why I haven’t included the Feedburner chicklet on my blog… it always fluctuates for one reason or the other. This time it was obvious it was the missing FriendFeed “subscribers” but in the past, it has fluctuated for no identifiable reason. Even without the FriendFeed subscribers, I hated finding that one day the chicklet showed accurate numbers, but the next it would show something dismal in the teens, which was embarrassing. So I just choose, either way, to keep it off my site and just let people see the strength of my site via the comments.
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December 28th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
I don’t blame you, I used to not have one but I hear that it Advertisers do look at it in making decision whether to advertise, so I added it back.
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December 29th, 2009 at 2:12 am
Actually feedburner help me a lot, all depend your guy thinking. for me I love it very much.
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December 29th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Friendfeed is awesome because it really does make things so easy for non techies like me but I just wished their stats would be more accurate. My feed numbers are always up and down and I see that on other people’s blogs too! Why is there so much change all the time?
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December 30th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
I say leave it off. Faking is for failures, period.
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