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I checked my feed count this afternoon about 4 PM (We’re in +8 GMT) and was ridiculed by this funny stat showing that my subscriber count was buried down to 290 from 564. Honestly, that shocked me at first as I haven’t posted from the last 2 days, but to think of it, my subscribers aren’t really that mean to unsubscribe that fast (Well I hope so!) as there are days where my blog is in drought longer than this week.
In the hope of another Feedburner hiccup, I visited other top blogs in my niche and viola:
Problogger from 33,000ish
John Chow from 13,000ish
Copyblogger from 26,000ish
It’s A Swing!
Just to be sure, I logged in on my feedburner account (That I don’t often do) and looked at what feed reader my subscribers are using. Yesterday 46% or 260 of them are using Google reader.
Subtract that from 564 that was my feed count yesterday and it will total to 304 subscribers. A pretty close figure to my feed count today of 290 – or you can do it in vice versa if Google forgets to count the other feed readers and it would total to 260, a close call to 290 also.
So to those of you who are worrying about the feed count drop, fear no more. Let the techie guys work on it.
Update:
Just about a minute ago, Feedburner updated their stats and yep, they forgot to count Google feedfethcer.
I wonder why they always forget their own reader :roll:
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I have heard a couple of people mention this… im hoping I get a couple more subscribers when it comes back then :lol:
Well, that’s what we hope every day :mrgreen:
haha…hoping too… :twisted: :twisted:
Ah, i was wondering about that. I got a bit freaked out when my feed readers dropped by 50%, luckily i checked other blogs and saw it was happening everywhere.
I am your reader and I’ll never unsubscribe. Go ahead Carl! :grin:
Wow, welcome to my blog Mark. That made my day :wink:
I started a new project at ebookdeal.blogspot.com and I want to ask you if I can add your e-book to some new post? Expecting answer soon
You mean my own ebook?
type make money online in google. You are no more second place! :grin:
:shock: Oh my…
Yeah I went about two hours this morning thinking I had done something awful because my drop was only about 20% so not enough to make me think it was a technical glitch! However as soon as I saw somebody else’s feed count down really low, I figured it out :)
Yeah I got a big drop in my RSS Subs as well. I’m not sure why… I’ll just have to write more unique content and see if it springs back up.
Cheers,
Carlo Selorio
Well, I noticed it in Yaro’s blog. I wondered why the sudden drop. I know now that it was global.
Why do you always count your readers by feedburner? On my own blog I have personal platform which helps me count my RSS readers as well as number of people who visited my blog for specified time, isn’t that enough ?
I thought my latest article made my readers fed up of me! Phew, luckily I didn’t pull my hairs off my head yet.
Why is this happening to Google? They want to whole blogosphere to blog about them again after all the PR update hype? :lol:
And here I thought that there was going to be another dot com crash :lol:
haha… one thing about not having too big a subscriber base for RSS is that I do not have to worry about this. small comfort :razz:
Hi Carl, I just subscribed to your blog’s RSS feed, maybe that’ll get yout subscriber count up. :p
I have seen another dip today and it went back to normal like in 4hours.I don;t know what’s going on with feedburn these days.