Comments on: Reasons Why NOT to FAKE your Feedburner Count

By: Rhino

Rhino — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 01:56:52 +0000

I only have 2 subscribers at my site, http://www.rhinothecat.com

lol. I was thinking about faking my subscriber feed count until I came across this site. Thanks for changing my mind!

Anyone wanna subscribe to me??

By: Enfotainer

Enfotainer — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:06:37 +0000

Hmm…I guess then I’ll remove the 11 subscriber stats shown in the my site feeds.

Do you really think people will be more likely “not” to subscribe when they sees just 11 subscribers?

Thanks,
Mnix

By: Nico

Nico — Sun, 04 May 2008 18:48:39 +0000

Such a great post! Very informative and well documented with plenty of examples. This is the stuff I like!

I saw a similar blog recentely about medical equipment (obviously set up for adsense) at blogspot with no alexa stats and 300 subscribers. I was like, no way… How’s this possible?

I thought this person must’ve made like 300 email adresses just to make it’s blog appear popular. You’re explenation probably is more logical.

In my opinion, If your feed subscriber count is low just don’t put a chicklet up! That’s what I do on my blog.

Either way,.. reading about feedburner seems to trigger the subscribe reflex with me because that’s what I’m doing here right now.

Greetings,

Nico

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By: TDavid

TDavid — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:32:01 +0000

Unfortunately it doesn’t negatively impact everybody who does this. Mashable was caught faking theirs and it didn’t damage their popularity at all

By: Thomas Sinfield

Thomas Sinfield — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:43:52 +0000

I wouldn’t fake my feed stats – too risky!
I show my true stats, even though I only have a feed count of 14, because it allows visitors and regulars to see the growth, as I have gained those 14 in just over a week.

By: Slevi

Slevi — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:29:30 +0000

AskShane.com’s example though is just a single example, perhaps it didn’t work for him but it might actually work for others. If he already had a solid subscriber base in example the difference probably would be minimal, but if you’re on pretty much nothing there’s not many people which would subscribe to a feed with 0 people.

It’s sort of the same trick as people commenting to their own blog with different names or asking friends to comment on their blog just to get some comments there on the latest entries, the reason? Many people for some reason are afraid to show their opinion in a comment, it’s just a minor portion which actually does comment. It shows quite well on the bigger blogs which every now and then make a post just to ask for comments and rather than the usual 30~50 comments on a post they suddenly get 200+ comments because by asking this certain border got lifted.

Showing a low number and especially for 0 is a border pretty much like that for many, if that is something which bothers you it becomes more understandable that one would take desperate measures to try and get a start.

By: A. Marques

A. Marques — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:37:18 +0000

And besides, if it is like you quoted from AskShane.com, I can’t see any reason at all why anyone would do it. Of course that I don’t know how Shane did his little experiment, but even so, not worth it.

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:30:52 +0000

> Marques & Jayne
yes you do look like a fool if you fake it and someone that is curious will find out about it. I personally do not think it is worth it, you are providing information, which is useless but have XXXX amount of RSS subscribers – hmm looks a little strange don’t you think