Look Out For Another Feedburner Sub Increase Today
It seems that the easiest way to increase the number of subscribers ‘reading’ your site is not to 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 up again for many blogs thanks to a change in the algorithm.
Feedburner have published details of the actual change for those of you who are interested:
We live in a world where all web-based aggregators are not created equal. Given that, FeedBurner maintains different algorithms for various types of clients that accommodate different reporting mechanisms. Today, we “retired” one of these - the Maximum algorithm - in favor of its more sophisticated brother - the Cluster algorithm. Sibling rivalry aside, our Cluster algorithm has shown itself to be a more accurate way to count subscriptions, taking into account elusive feed aliases and better reflecting the reality of how many subscribers are accessing your media. To clarify, any increases in subscription numbers aren’t “new” subscribers, rather it reflects an improvement to how we calculate data for your feed.
All make sense now? My feedcount currently stands at 1293, so I’ll be looking for any significant changes. Let me know if you see a big swing in your feedcount.
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Comment by Dan and Jennifer on 15 March 2007:
Cool, looking forward to tomorrow’s surprise from FeedBurner.
Like it or not, those are subscribers you didn’t know you had as far as you knew… money found in your couch cusions is still just as good as any other kind of money.
Have an awesome day!
Dan
Comment by Ajay on 15 March 2007:
No major change to my feed count
Comment by Dan and Jennifer on 15 March 2007:
I thought he said tomorrow?
I’m still waiting patiently. I’ll be checking my FB stats in the when I’m groggily waking up at 4:30a tomorrow.
Have an awesome day!
Dan