You’re faking it and we can tell, Bloated RSS Feed numbers


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So you are looking at other sites and you notice their RSS Subscribers are in thousands and yours are in the hundreds, and you feel bad.  How did that ugly little site get so many RSS subscriptions you say?  Well its easy, they faked it.  Many people believe readers will only subscribe to blogs they think are popular, thus the fake numbers on really insecure blogs.  Of course you too can do this, but if other fellow bloggers have found ways of finding out how many subscriptions you have whats the point?  One way is to view the trends in Google Reader, Google will tell you how many people are subscribed via Google Reader which a good number of readers will be using.  Another way is to compare the sites Alexa rankings, Technorati link backs, and Pagerank with your own chances are from these stats alone you can tell if they are faking it.  Another way as reported by friedbeef is to Sign up for Netvibes and install the SK Feedburner Stats plugin which will show you feedburners numbers.

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January 9, 2008 | Filed Under Web and Blog traffic tips 

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  1. ipod nano accessories on MyAvatars 0.2 June 1st, 2008 4:59 am

    Fake RSS readers are kinda low. I like the impossible numbers like 12billion readers…if you’re going to fake it, go all the way lol.

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