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3:09 am
December 10, 2010
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uhnw
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I use feedburner to manage my RSS feed and sometimes it simpy drops the number of subscribers quite dramatically. For example, I had 14 subscribers (SUBSCRIBE DAMN YOU…. please  ), and it suddently dropped to 9. Did 5 people suddenly stop subscribing, or is that just how feedburner works?
Or did I really offend that many people with my last post?
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3:34 am
December 10, 2010
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Dana
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I'd like to hear an answer for this too. I eventually took off the feedburner subscriber stats number from my site because I would get so depressed when the number dropped substantially.
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4:39 am
December 10, 2010
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Glen Craig
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It moves because it does.
I don't know whay exactly but the feed always seems to move. And at times the big G does maintenence to Feedburner and you can see your subs change dramatically.
Don't pay too much attention to it. Keep plugging away and you will see your subs grow in the long run.
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10:50 am
December 10, 2010
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Buy Like Buffett
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Feedburner is aggravating. Site stats will jump up or down on any given day. Too bad there are no other options!
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11:56 am
December 10, 2010
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Aloysa
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I don't show my RSS stats for the same reason. One day it is decent, another day looks like everyone left. Then, everyone is back… Really weird!
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12:36 pm
December 10, 2010
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uhnw
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Thanks all. Happy news – everyone came back last night and brought some friends!
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1:21 pm
December 10, 2010
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Sandy @ yesiamcheap
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Move the party to my blog because I'd love some new feed subs.
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7:01 pm
December 10, 2010
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Sustainable PF
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sandy@yesiamcheap said:
Move the party to my blog because I'd love some new feed subs.
No kidding! +1
I've been sitting at 9/10 for 10 days. No one has been signing up.
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8:30 pm
December 10, 2010
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mbhunter
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My feed count will jump from about 3000 to about 2000 overnight, and back again. There's almost no in-between.
It's been doing this for around two years. I've had a message in the Feedburner newsgroup for about a year. No response.
Welcome to Feedburner.
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6:45 am
December 11, 2010
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Jackie
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I've noticed that it tends to go down for me the most on the weekends, which is also the time period where I have the least visitors. So maybe feedburner somehow only "counts" people who are actively opening your feed in a reader? That's my wild theory.
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6:47 pm
December 11, 2010
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TightFistedMiser
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Part of the reason the Feedburner feed count fluctuates is because sometimes Google Reader doesn't report their stats to Feedburner. This doesn't make much sense since Google owns Feedburner but it happens. Feedburner also uses the amount of daily traffic to estimate the number of readers which is why your subscribers count goes down when your traffic goes down even if people aren't unsubscribing.
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2:48 pm
December 22, 2010
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Sustainable PF
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Wow. My feedburner dropped massively (for us) last night. From 17 to 5 :(
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3:53 pm
December 22, 2010
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Aloysa
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Sustainable PF said:
Wow. My feedburner dropped massively (for us) last night. From 17 to 5 :(
It drops, then it jumps… I think if people didn't look at their reader, your numbers drop. It doesn't mean that they unsubscribed.
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4:42 pm
December 22, 2010
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Buy Like Buffett
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Google groups have a lot of stories from bloggers who saw their subscribers drop from the hundreds to the 20's in a day.
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8:38 am
January 6, 2011
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Buck Inspire
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Whew, I thought it was just me. My numbers have been slowly dropping. Like Craig said, just keep plugging away!
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5:04 pm
January 6, 2011
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Khaleef @ KNS Financial
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I pretty much ignore the numbers now since they jump around so much.
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1:23 pm
January 8, 2011
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SavingMentor
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The numbers I get reported through the feedburner dashboard have actually been pretty stable. I don't use the on site widget though.
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2:08 pm
January 8, 2011
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Jaymus (RealizedReturns)
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I don't have many subscribers, but I've seen the jumping the last 2-3 days as well. Swing of 40%. Feedburner itself doesn't know how many people have actually subscribed to the RSS feed, it only knows how many uniqe IP addresses it has served the feed to. If someone subscribed and then does not have their reader fetch your feed for a week, that subscrber won't be counted. As such, it will vary day by day, although I think they should have had a smoothing factor that maybe looks at 7 days of feed requests or something so the # wouldn't jump around so dramatically from one day to the next.
oh well.
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