Feedburner Counts Can Be Faked

Many bloggers embed the Feedburner chicklet onto their blog to show how many readers they have. Unfortunately, that number is far from perfect. humans may have subscribed to your feed from multiple RSS readers so there could easily be duplicate counts for the same user. that is particularly true for blogs that have been around a while as public have changed rss readers by the years. There are plus

ways to fake the Feedburner subscriber count. The video below from The Next Web shows a way to do that using NetVibes.

The best real way to inflate your subscribe count is to get your feed offered by an RSS Reader in one of the recommended bundles - but that’s much easier said than done

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