Comments on: How many RSS Readers does your Blog have? [POLL]

By: Tom Clarke

Tom Clarke — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:33:26 +0000

On 492 today! Just edging towards the 500 mark…. :-)

By: Anurag

Anurag — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:03:14 +0000

I have somewhere around 50 subscribers, but the numbers fluctuate a lot. Feedburner never calculates myAOL subscribers and lot many.
I don’t understand how this mechanism works. Feedburner has to pull the data for subscribers or the respective engines have to provide data to feedburner.
Whatever the case is, in my opinion, Feedburner doesn’t count the exact number of subscribers.
But that’s the only service I can use to at least get the approximate number of subscribers.

By: OPEN GIGA

OPEN GIGA — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:00:09 +0000

Approximately 100+ :P

Thanks

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:06:01 +0000

Sciencebase hovers around the 2850 RSS subscriber mark, but there are definite ups and downs at different times of the week, particular there is usually a 150 drop over the weekend. Numbers went up slightly on Thanksgiving and whenever Google messes up its Reader I see big drops that bounce back once they fix things.

By: Jeremy Steele

Jeremy Steele — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 04:01:29 +0000

I don’t like releasing actual numbers for most things, but I will say that despite the fact traffic dropped over 50% in November (was busy working on other projects, plus less social media traffic), subscriptions shot up by a good 20% and are now somewhere between 100 and 500.

By: Zhuoshi

Zhuoshi — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:51:40 +0000

If there was an option of 20 and under, I would be in that category. :(

By: Peter Cooper

Peter Cooper — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:34:54 +0000

12000 here, although it wobbles by up to 500 each direction of that on a daily basis (and falls even more at the weekends). Can’t believe I’m actually in the top 5% of a poll for once.. definitely not in the top 5% for the earnings one! :(

By: Daniel Anderson

Daniel Anderson — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 23:32:25 +0000

Glas to see I am not the only one with stats below 20 !!! I have a similar amount (around 10). My blog has only been up for a week. So hopefully I can attract some more……….

By: Vaibhav

Vaibhav — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 15:07:37 +0000

My feeds currently show 150+ readers, i hope to touch 200 till end of this year.

By: analogstuff

analogstuff — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 14:32:57 +0000

My feedcount varies normally at almost 10 no difference. It is around 231 today. Hope to reach 500 soon. Does any one has any idea of how many feed subscribers you need to apply feed advertising from google.

By: Pachecus

Pachecus — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 14:19:13 +0000

16 readers for me…. my blog is 15 days old

By: chipseo

chipseo — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 12:47:38 +0000

sadly I am in the first bullet. It is still climbing (slowly) but my blog has only been available for less than 2 months so the other ranking areas look good to me… rss, not so great. Scott

By: LintCollector

LintCollector — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 12:30:43 +0000

My subscriber numbers have increased 14% in one day!

I only had 7, then I followed Darren’s suggestion and subscribed to my own feed, and now I have 8.

By: Martin Neumann

Martin Neumann — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 10:27:45 +0000

Hey Darren – must have totally missed your “RSS POP” series – so it’ll be a good Monday morning read.

One of my bigger blogs has close to 3,500 subscribers – but you know what? I really do believe that there’s more value in working on your email capture systems – thus in the new year I’ll be focusing less on rss (ie: smaller button – and it’s there if those who know about it) and I’ll be really positioning my email capture form above the fold and make it my main focus.

By: Andreas Gerads

Andreas Gerads — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 10:20:55 +0000

Actually Feedburner measures between 370 and 470 within a week at my blog. This Variation is extremely high I guess, anyone with similar experiences??

By: Albert | UrbanMonk.Net

Albert | UrbanMonk.Net — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 10:00:07 +0000

I have about 750-800…

By: Ruchir

Ruchir — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 09:01:11 +0000

My subscriber count fluctuates between 30 and 40…

By: Deepak

Deepak — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 08:25:41 +0000

Been flirting with 500, but haven’t crossed that yet. But it’s double in the last 6 months, so hopefully soon enough.

By: Emma

Emma — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 06:57:36 +0000

I just did a post on increasing subscribers and making money. Darren, are you copying me?

By: Dana

Dana — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 06:07:53 +0000

Woohoo! I’m one above average, at least on my older blog.

Like the guy from the Disneyblog, I’m curious how subscriber numbers relate to visitors. On my old blog, they are close. Subs fluctuate between 160 and 187 and visits between uniques between 180 and 200. My newer blog gets a bit more traffic, but a lot fewer subs.