Feed subscribers often referred to value our advertisement slots. But, it is not the main factor in determining the value. There are other vital points like traffic, pagerank, pageviews, etc that plays core role.
I’m sure you have heard about this from John Chow about tricks to increase your feedburner count numbers. This is dirty way to increase your feedburner counts. I have tried, but not his way. I tried with traditional email subscription way. This is the easiest way to get higher feedburner followers count.
1. Create new email address from any free email network like yahoo, gmail, hotmail, etc.
2. Subscribe at your blog feedburner with your newly created email.
3. Verify it from your email address.
4. Repeat it with any number of email counts you want.
In my case, I chose 15 email addresses as a trial and it is counted in feedcount. This really works. Other than that, you can exchange rss at blogcatalog group discussion. But, frankly, exchanging rss, subscribe using own emails, etc will not be helping in long run. Good contents will help.
Nice tactic but it is very time consumin trying to subscribe emails one by one, add the fact that it is also time consuming to register for an email account, unless you have some automated programs to fill in all those slots for you
I’ve looked at this post a couple of times. All I can say is that this falls very much in the realm of Black Hat SEO and should not be practiced by anyone serious about running a site of any repute.
If you want to fake your feedburner count why wouldn’t you just copy the count you wanted from some other blog? I’ve seen people do that. I’m not sure what the advantage of this tactic done either way really is. Most people know that people fake feedburner. I’ve run across blogs that haven’t been updated in weeks or months that have over a hundred “people” subscribed to them. When that happens, the number of subscribers becomes irrelevant, and I will never use what someone displays in feedburner to judge the popularity of a blog. Does this technique still have an affect?
Even before I noticed the faking of feedburner I wouldn’t subscribe to a blog just because 200 other people do. Baaah. I’m no sheep.