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Feedburner To Include Google Reader And Homepage Subs

February 17th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

I can’t believe I didn’t notice that Feedburner didn’t report Google Reader and Google Personalised Homepage subscribers in my feedcount statistics before (more info) Well Feedburner have just fixed this and Google Reader and Google Personalised Homepage stats will be appearing from Saturday morning U.S Central Time (when is that? Why can’t Americans use GMT like the rest of the world, and over 6 billion non-Americans?!!)

It’ll be interesting to see how much of an ego boost adding these numbers in will give most bloggers. My current stats are below:

pre-feedstats

Anyone want to bet on how many additional readers I will uncover from Google Reader and Google Personalized Homepage? I’m betting that it’ll be at least 200 as I think that Google Reader now the biggest market share out of all of the RSS readers, and Google Homepage should be good for at least 50 I think. My goal this month was to get my feedcount over the psychological 1000 threshold, and I think I should do now.

Want to have a guess as to how many more readers I will discover? If I get enough guesses I might give a prize to the best one.

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Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK.

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Comment by Ajay on 17 February 2007:

This means it should be active in few hours. That would be great and should show a jump in our feed counts.
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Comment by Tony Williams on 17 February 2007:

Congrats on breaking 1000!

You picked up 210 more readers so you were pretty close with your 200 estimate.

I added 150 (556 total), but I’m on the Digg homepage at the moment so I don’t think it will last long
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Pingback by Can we have an OPML exchange - Exchange links of blogs you read with mine at TechSpot Analysis , Reviews, Programming and Security on 17 February 2007:

[...] an intresting story here….Feedburner To Include Google Reader and Personalised Homepage Subs From 17/2 and you can think of one more [...]
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Comment by engtech on 17 February 2007:

I had a 33% increase.
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Comment by Vincent on 17 February 2007:

I noticed nothing so far, my subscribers are always between 70 to 80+
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Pingback by Success - I’ve Broken 1,000 Feed Subscribers! | Connected Internet on 19 February 2007:

[...] One of my goals this month was to increase my feed count to over 1,000 and thanks to Feedburner including Google Reader and Google Personalised Homepage subscribers in my count and adding a further 210 subscribers, I’ve now achieved this landmark reaching [...]
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Pingback by Look Out For Another Feedburner Sub Increase Today | Connected Internet on 15 March 2007:

[...] write better posts, but to wait for Feedburner to change the way it calculates the subs number. Last month we had a big increase when Google Reader was included, and tomorrow the subscriber count should go [...]