Comments on: I Don’t Really Have 34,015 RSS Subscribers

By: Introducing my Internet Marketing Newsletter | Caroline Middlebrook

Introducing my Internet Marketing Newsletter | Caroline Middlebrook — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:46:53 +0000

[...] Social proof is something that has been talked about a lot by Yaro Starak. People like to do what other people do so they subscribe to popular blogs. The higher your RSS count, the faster it tends to go up because more people subscribe as it looks more popular. This is why so many blogs show an exponential curve in their readership once they hit a certain point. So far my growth has been very linear so I’m hoping this will be a way of changing that. [...]

By: Feed Burner | Thinkbytes

Feed Burner | Thinkbytes — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:45:33 +0000

[...] While I don’t see any point of doing this other than tricking people into thinking your site is more popular than it really is. I don’t condone anything like this, and you will never see anything like that on this site. There are many ways to find out how respectable and established a website is. For more information see this site. [...]

By: Bloggers: One SUREFIRE way to boost your FeedBurner subscriber counts!

Bloggers: One SUREFIRE way to boost your FeedBurner subscriber counts! — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 06:17:21 +0000

[...] case in point is Yaro Starak’s blog, Entrepreneur’s Journey. I love to keep records of the developments on different blogs, since I am so terminally [...]

By: Nate Moller

Nate Moller — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:20:38 +0000

Do you know if there is a way to convert Constant Contact email lists in to your feedburner subscriber list?

Thanks for the good stuff.

By: Daniel Scocco

Daniel Scocco — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:33:36 +0000

Good stuff Yaro, I knew that 6k subscribers were a big underestimation of your audience.

By: Mandy

Mandy — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:17:03 +0000

This is interesting I didn’t know you could do this. I think it makes starting an email list with aweber even more appealing!

By: Hank

Hank — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 04:57:21 +0000

Bravo, Yaro!

By: brian

brian — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 02:54:54 +0000

WHen is your ugly design going to be replaced. I would say that the lack of decent posts and horrible design is what made me stop subscribing your RSS feed.

By: Bob Walton

Bob Walton — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:43:45 +0000

Impressive numbers and helpful material. I wasn’t sure if you were saying the wordpress settings weren’t right or you feed service settings needed adjusting. Anyway, good post. Thanks.

By: Dara

Dara — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:31:55 +0000

Take a screenshot! No one would ever know if you didn’t post about it here shhh

By: Coryan

Coryan — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:21:12 +0000

Ah, mystery solved. Like you, I am also curious how bloggers with large lists will start using these numbers. We could start hearing about some blogs that are not typically on our radar.

By: Josh Spaulding

Josh Spaulding — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:26:09 +0000

Does this mean the Feedcount chicklet will lose its position as the standard measure of blog status, just like PageRank has?

I agree with you answer to that. The main reason being a good majority of bloggers don’t run successful mailing lists. Those who do run big lists normally aren’t big bloggers, with the exception of you and very few others

I do believe it decreases the value some of us will put on RSS numbers, not nearly as much as PR though.

I wonder if if FeedBurner will start counting GerResponse subscribers or if they already do?

By: Meg

Meg — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:42:56 +0000

I was just looking at the feedburner subscription trends on my list and had to pop in to see how you managed to double your subs in two days! Thanks for the explanation – heh enjoy it while it lasts

By: ChowMunga!

ChowMunga! — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:34:53 +0000

Yaro:

You can admit…you were pretty excited when you saw the 34k + subscribors! What a let down to only have 22k. Maybe you should think about a day job!

By: Rupert

Rupert — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 04:55:52 +0000

Yaro,

this Blog is excellent, I run a Blogging program for Work for the Dole in Melbourne, and many participants really value knowing about the profit side of Blogging which no matter what is leading what encouraging Blogging in its purist form of … Blogging.

Your Blog is fascinating from this perspective.

Thanks
Rupert

By: Pat B. Doyle

Pat B. Doyle — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:41:08 +0000

Hi Yaro, the same thing happened to me when I switched to using my feedburner feed in Aweber. The first day things were normal, the second day, the Aweber numbers were doubled, but the third day, things were back to normal, and they have been normal ever since.

P.S. I’m not showing my chicklet on my blog now until I reach 1,000 subscribers.

By: Hunter Nuttall

Hunter Nuttall — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:42:03 +0000

Technically savvy audiences may come to be suspicious of feedcounts, but the average person won’t care about details like this. They’ll just see the big number and want to join in on the fun.

By: Mwangi

Mwangi — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:32:17 +0000

Hey Yaro,
Do you think I can borrow your feedburner chicklet for a couple of days? lol

By: Masa

Masa — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:43:18 +0000

Wow, this is unbelievable, Yaro.

Yeah, I had similar feeling as everyone has. When I visited this blog yesterday, I found the readers were 17,000. So why it gets double just a night?

But this is good news anyway…

By: Juuso - Game Producer

Juuso - Game Producer — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:06:37 +0000

So the real question is… Yaro – why the heck are you showing that number in the first place

Just teasing you

By: Danielle

Danielle — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:05:04 +0000

Wow – I better run over to Feedburner and check out my current chicklet reading. Perhaps it is finally high enough to place on my blog.

Thanks for the great article on Maki and Caroline’s blogs and how they are growing so fast!

Danielle

By: Links Roundup - February 5th 2008

Links Roundup - February 5th 2008 — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:36:59 +0000

[...] I Don’t Really Have 34,015 RSS Subscribers – Yaro explains how why his feed count is wrong. [...]

By: Fran

Fran — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:11:57 +0000

34000 is amazing but 22000 is still incredible. Well done Yaro!

By: Aurelius Tjin

Aurelius Tjin — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:30:55 +0000

Hey, great post Yaro! I have a similar concern and it’s good to know it’s not only me that has the same concern.