Comments on: It Isn’t Easy Being Feedburner’s Emotional Slave

By: Jason Boom

Jason Boom — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:15:48 +0000

Hey ViralKing, It’s best to just persist. I have to be on that mode from time to time. It does get frustrating to see those numbers dip.

By: ViralKing

ViralKing — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:06:57 +0000

Hmm – Yeah my feedburner I notice dropping as well at times and it gets me down as I feel im putting out good content too. Almost makes me wonder if my time is not better spent, but I intend to stick with it

By: Pastor Phil

Pastor Phil — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:38:31 +0000

Hi Jason,
Blogging is the mainstream of events on the internet, not everyone likes what is happening here… especially those big internet marketeers like Google. The main thing to remember is that more and more people want to read the blogs and learn how to make the internet better for the reader and not the money changers. Keep up the great work, I love it!!

By: Jason Boom

Jason Boom — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:27:44 +0000

Intellectually I know you’re right. I probably obsess over it a little too much on certain days. It may just be the newness of the blog. I want the positive reinforcement.

By: Gary R. Hess

Gary R. Hess — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:19:06 +0000

Eh, I don’t care either way. This is news to me, I don’t follow the news on feedburner. I’m a fan, but I just like to check the numbers every now and again and view it over a long period of time. If everyone took a hit (although, I really didn’t notice anything in my numbers) then it shouldn’t matter anyway. The same amount of people are still reading your blog, and that is all that matters.

By: Jason Boom

Jason Boom — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:49:50 +0000

Hi Jason, that’s quite a drop. I can’t imagine having that terrible of a service from them. You pulled out of it though.

By: Jason - GorillaSushi

Jason - GorillaSushi — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:32:46 +0000

I remember a year or two ago when my Feedburner numbers were over 600 and then they dropped to about 25. Turns out they were receiving horribly wrong numbers from Google and Rojo for months. Turns out I only had 25 subscribers. I’ve taken all of their other hiccups in stride since then.

Technocrati on the other hand…those guys are just plain messing with me some days…

By: Jonathon

Jonathon — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:42:27 +0000

Thanks for the advice! Oh,a nd nice blog by the way. Maybe I will fall for your peer pressure

By: Jason Boom

Jason Boom — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:27:55 +0000

Hi Jonathon, You can do that if you wish. Some of us prefer to show it after we have 50 or 100 or some other number. It’s really up to you.

Some feel that after 50 others will jump on just to see what everyone finds interesting about your blog. It’s peer pressure.

By: Jason Boom

Jason Boom — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:21:57 +0000

@Blogfeld: I just started displaying mine and this fiasco had me reconsidering that move.

@Zack: I can’t help myself. I’m trained I guess. 1000 readers is a ton. Good luck with that move. 500 would be impressive, but 1000 would be monumental!

@Louie: Hey our subscribers are our lifeblood. I wouldn’t keep writing if no one was reading. I’m glad I could shed some light on the situation.