Low RSS? Just Pay for FAKE RSS Readers
November 11, 2007 · Print Post · Bookmark post
This morning I was notified by the all popular Cow about a new service which will provide you RSS readers! If your RSS reader subscription is low, just pay for fake readers. RSSXplosion a new service which you pay for RSS readers, hmm does this remind you of BuyBlogComments?
Again who would do this and why would someone pay for fake readers? RSS readers are for readers who want to read your website from a non website platform for ease of use or read a small synopsis before going to the actual website.
JohnCow.com has done some research on this and found a lot of interesting things about the service. I have went to the homepage and found some interesting things as well, like Mark from 45n5 and John Chow leaving testimonials about this service? I do not think they would find this service ethical because it will not be to their advantage.
To the left you can see the so called testimonial, but these quotes are from the authors’ post within their blog. I do not think Mark, John Chow, Hari from Got Chance would approve of this.
I doubt they would want their name associated with such pathetic service. This is becoming a problem within the blogosphere, who want to pay for FAKE readers and or commenter? This type of service provide no value to other readers and the author himself. It just shows an increase in numbers.
Also, this will definitely hurt someone’s blog sales. If someone find out you have bought RSS subscribers and not actual real readers, who can say what the true value of your blog really is?
BloggingFinger sold his blog for $6000, but did he buy these RSS subscribers? I bet not, I personally talk to Matt of Blogging Fingers and I doubt he has bout RSS subscribers to boost his sales. Ryan Shamus is another name associated with RSSXplosion, since he sold his blog as well. I also doubt their sales were because of this service.
A blog sale is determined by their readers and traffic; RSS play an important role in a website sale because they are loyal readers. But when increasing your feed count to just sell your blog at a higher value means your blog value is a piece of shit, because you do not have loyal readers. Instead of using this service, it is better to just Adobe your FeedBurner Image!
With some research from John Cow:
With a simple whois query we found out that a certain brian@bleedingvision.com (again, we hope you won’t get spammed to death now!
) is responsible for this stupidity. Funny how Brian’s domain points to a broken WordPress blog. Is that the type of ‘quality’ your
loserscustomers can expect from you?
Reason Why this Service Sucks
- Unethical
- Fake Readers will not provide you income
- Fake Traffic
- Value of Blog is Poor
- How long will your RSS Url be pinged?
These are pretty good and solid reasons why this service sucks. First of all this is very unethical which goes into fake traffic and fake readers. How will your blog flourish with fake readers that will not provide any value to your blog? Also how often will your feed be pinged to sustain a high value count?
Also say good buy to your blog sale, because the value of your blog is shit! Fake readers will not give any value to your blog. When Matt and Ryan sold their blog, it was due to their traffic and loyal readers. Their readers contributed to their value of their blog, the reason why they sold their blog for a good high price. Below is a screen shot of Matt and Ryan recent blog sale. The owner of RSSXplosion is using popular authors and bloggers to associate with this pathetic service. More screen shot below, again I doubt they will want to be associated with this service.
What is the Blogosphere coming to?
Just as the title states, where is the blogging world coming to? First BuyBlogComments and now RSSXplosion? Buying fake contributors to your blog that produces no value is just wrong. I can not stress how bad of an idea this is because their is no value in return maybe an increaese in RSS subscribers which you can show off, but just Adobe your damn Feed counter or take someone else’s image. Though I still find that idea bad but it is better than buying readers!
Buying fake readers looks like it will be a problem within the blogosphere, because of these low value services. Our blogging community is becoming a realm for spammers for low quality fake readers. We post our ideas and opinions and we are being attacked. Blogging is a way to voice our opinions and spread news across the internet in different attitudes and language. These services such as BuyBlogComments and RSSXplosion are causing a serious issue within the blogging community.
November 11th, 2007 12:54 pm
It would be really stupid of someone to pay for such a service…
I mean if at all one comes to a point where one would have to stoop so low.. the better way is to subscribe from different feed readers to your own blog… I mean at the very least you won’t be spending money just to keep your blogging shame a secret… but then the internet is full of opportunities, ideas and idiots.. am sure even this will find its share of clients…
November 11th, 2007 1:15 pm
quoting a blog is well within fair use of the law I believe so people can quote me all day long. If you read it the quote certainly isn’t a “testimonial” for any service.
If you really think the service sucks why are you promoting it on your blog? you just gave them a whole post. even if you don’t link to them you are providing them with more exposure.
November 11th, 2007 5:23 pm
This is actually my service, my name is Scot, not Brian. Brian owns the domain name. But, I digress…
You are definitely entitled to your own rights and opinions about my service, I do not take it personal and still respect you.
I do, however, have my rights to quote public works with proper credit and display recent blog sales on my website, just like everyone else has (including Problogger).
“Fake Readers will not provide you income”
Apparently you haven’t read anything on my website rssxplosion.com. The system is designed to jumpstart your blog so that others (real income opportunities) will feel more comfortable subscribing to your blog.
Stop putting up a wall before understanding potential opportunities, you’re only hurting yourself!
November 11th, 2007 6:22 pm
> Mark
quoting the blog is ofcourse perfect as I have quote cow within this post. I took it as it was part of the service giving them the testimonials, as it was not clear on the landing page
> Scot
thanks, your a marketer entrepreneur so your services are base on your ideas you have and want to pursue basing my opnion on this service is what I am really just doing.
Also, I have read your services, I did not just go base my reactions on just cows blog or other readers. I just dont understand how you will be providing dedicated readers 24 hours 30 days etc. as you and I know Feed burner numbers fluctuate everyday. your service does not provide any information on stats, consistency etc. all your page said that I saw in bold was the numbers will never drop, again RSS fluctuate everyday. your sales state just X amount of subscribers over X amount of time. that is it, so my assumption to just fake readers can be related to your service, there was not that much info to let me think of this as a service.
November 11th, 2007 8:13 pm
“The system is designed to jumpstart your blog so that others (real income opportunities) will feel more comfortable subscribing to your blog.”
Not wishing to sound too pessimistic, but I could do the same thing by accessing and caching the Feedburner Reader total via their API on my site (which I already do), and then adding +$x onto the end when displaying it (which I don’t do! lol).
Same end result - I’m making my blog seem more credible to readers, who are then more likely to subscribe. And using that method, I would also know how many real readers I have (who have subscribed without being bought) - I wouldn’t be able to track “real” readers if I bought them, would I?
November 11th, 2007 11:01 pm
What a stupid thing to do.
But I bet lot’s of people will buy in too!
I am worried that all you big bloggers talking about this will just jack up this guy’s rankings… and give him more willing customer!
John
November 12th, 2007 12:10 am
Simon,
That’s awesome. Unfortunately not everyone can do that or even know what an API is. That’s like saying “Instead of someone buying a new blog design why don’t they just write a few plugins and throw some stuff together in Photoshop, I can do it!”
November 12th, 2007 10:50 am
Scott - it’s definitely not a real solution, but I don’t think that buying subscribers is either. Just throwing out the alternatives.
John - I’m not sure I totally agree there. It’s inevitable that people will blog about ideas they think are crazy or unethical, because it makes for a good read! I believe I even read on Scott’s blog that he used a couple of tricks to make sure people got talking about it, and it worked nicely.
But the proof of the pudding is in the eating as they say. Sensationalism doesn’t mean success in the long run - look at MillionDollarWiki - it’s now all but dead after people like John Chow and ShoeMoney claimed that everyone should go out and buy a page.
If RSSxplosion doesn’t bring real benefits to people, it won’t be used, and people will stop talking about it. It may be border-line unethical to some people, but so many bloggers try to buy traffic and links these days, that buying RSS subscribers is no better or worse.