Double Your FeedBurner RSS Numbers Overnight

Posted Sunday, January 27th, 2008 by Joel

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I recently achieved the milestone of having 150 subscribers (I’m still hanging out in that area). In reaching that, I realize that many bloggers use Blogger to host their blogs and FeedBurner for their RSS syndication. That’s a good combination (I much prefer WordPress, but Blogger can be simpler to set up).

This post will serve as a simple tutorial to allow people in this situation to double their subscriber count overnight. If not overnight, then quickly to say the least.

I’ve noticed that a lot of the bloggers who have this setup seem to have low subscriber counts. I noticed that Learn Me Good is still hanging out around 30ish feeds each time I check it. It has been that way since I first discovered his blog. I checked it out in Google Reader and realized that I was subscribed to his Blogger feed rather than the FeedBurner feed. I have a strong feeling that there are a handful of Blogger users out there who will find this little trick extraordoinarily useful and personally validating as well.

How do we do it?

Follow the steps in this simple Quick Start guide from FeedBurner.
Write a new post on your blog informing readers of the change and asking them to confirm that they are subscribed to the FeedBurner feed (this is not necessary, but it will encourage casual readers to subscribe anyway).
Sit back and wait a few days and see the numbers dramatically increase!

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Comments

Sunday, January 27th, 2008 (5:14am Central)
Abhinav Sood writes:

Thanks for the mention, Joel.
A Nice compilation here and very helpful.

Sunday, January 27th, 2008 (9:39am Central)
Ken writes:

Joel-
Quick question. If I already am hosting a blog on blogger, then I should have FeedBurner as my RSS feed by default and not need to do your tutorial? But if I’m hosting a wordpress blog, your tutorial would be the way to go since it is not a FeedBuner RSS?? Does that make sense?
Thanks for any clarification you can provide for my RSS challenged mind.

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Sunday, January 27th, 2008 (12:46pm Central)
Joel writes:

Ken: Not true. I just checked out your blog and the default feed is the one that runs through Blogger. Both are owned by Google, but the numbers of the subscribers are not included. The FeedBurner page that I linked to is specifically for ensuring that your Blogger feeds all run through FeedBurner. Enjoy! :)

Sunday, January 27th, 2008 (3:31pm Central)
Tejvan Pettinger writes:

Will have to check it out for my blogger blog

Sunday, January 27th, 2008 (7:40pm Central)
Mister Teacher writes:

I think mine is set up to go through feedburner now. Not sure if my subscribers will double overnight though. I guess we’ll see tomorrow! :)

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Monday, January 28th, 2008 (6:44pm Central)
Joel writes:

Wow, talk about cool! Learn Me Good’s numbers went from 26 to 114 overnight. That is more than a 430% increase. I guess this stuff can work!

Monday, January 28th, 2008 (11:15pm Central)
Mister Teacher writes:

DAY-IMMMM!!!!
I just got home, and I saw your comment before I actually checked my own blog, and at first I thought you were kidding! Although I really did was direct the blogger feed towards feedburner. There’s no way to do this through the control panel on blogspot, under the site feed option.
Good call!
Either that, or I had a ton of people sign up overnight!