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.

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

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?

> 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.

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!

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.