Increase Your FeedBurner Subscriber Count With an Easy Hack

03 aug 2008

Joop has discovered a very simple trick that will enable anyone to artificially inflate the FeedBurner subscriber count of any RSS feed that's syndicated via FeedBurner.

While you should avoid tricking visitors with artificial numbers, this video does give an hint that FeedBurner numbers are very easy to manipulate.

Joop shares a simple hack that will enable anyone to artificially inflate the FeedBurner subscriber count of any RSS feed that’s syndicated via FeedBurner.

Some may feel that the onus lies on Google & FeedBurner to provide a fix for this issue but that’s not the case because FeedBurner is simply adding the count – the actual numbers are provided by aggregators like Netvibes, Newsgator, Bloglines, etc.

http://roshanbh.com.np Roshan Bhattarai

cool hack man..thanks for this..you should have published this tips few days back…I cold have been the blogging idol organized by dailyblogtips.com.
http://mintywhite.com/tech/ Rich

This completely takes the value out of a feedcount. People like us who value our subscribers and not the number they collectively make suffer because people like to cheat.

I can’t see the video because YouTube (or whatever service the video is on) is banned at work.

I hope Google/Feedburner fix this soon. A feed count is a good way to judge the quality and longetevity of a site.
http://www.techkills.com JohnnyV

Great tip…i’ll definitely be checking it out
http://www.talkfree7.blogspot.com Piyush K

Amit,

I always do believe that life is NOT a hack, never use tricks to manipulate / tilt the things in my favor!

Not this is our pious duty to report the issue to the appropriate authority to make the web clean and honets?! : )

Thanks for the concern and raising the very issue.

Cheers : )
http://technoenigma.blogspot.com Snehasis

Good Hack….
So are using this hack in DI???
http://techblissonline.com/ Rajesh

So Joop has decided not to allow several thousands like you to freely show his video on their blogs. It can now be seen only via his page.Sounds reasonable :)
http://www.kashifblog.com Kashif

This might raise concerns to advertisers and at some time in future they will stop considering the feed count .
http://www.navinpoeran.nl Navin

I don’t think this is still working.
http://blog.geekblake.22web.net Blake

There is no real value in this, what’s the point? It doesn’t actually make more people read your feed. All it does is prove that you’re not satisfied with how many people are subscribed, which means that you should be working harder to promote your site and producing better content.

In the short term it may look more attractive to advertisers or potential new readers if you have more “subscribers”, but if publishers do this eventually everyone will catch on and not pay any attention to subscriber counts. And what about if this ever stops working? Then your subscriber count will drop way down, and that doesn’t look good at all!
http://www.greyhatindia.com ani

doesn’t work anymore..fixed by feedburner :)
coolman

yeah…fixed by feedburner :(
http://www.wowevil.com michael

So it doesnt work anymore?

Does anyone know any other method, apparently there is quickie way that is just to manipuliate the script itself.

i need it for my blog. its very lonely. its about celebrities, gossip and news. I’d appreciate your opinion on web site.

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Increase Your FeedBurner Subscriber Count With an Easy Hack

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