Feedburner Stats All Over the Map

November 22, 2007 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Blogging

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Like most bloggers I check my feedburner stats daily. I’m interested in lots of the stats I can pull from the site and obviously in my subscriber count.

Nothing can be more demoralizing than coming in and seeing a large drop in your subscribers from day to day. You can start to doubt yourself and ask yourself questions like was it because I did or didn’t’ do something? What am I doing wrong?

When I first bought this blog the very next day after the deal had been done the subscribers dropped to 117 from 199. I was thinking to myself wow what have I done wrong already? What’s going on here!? Sure enough the very next day it went up to the high 190’s.

I’m here to tell you to relax and that feedburner seems to be all over the map. I did some quick searches online and I’m not the only person who has noticed feedburner to be somewhat inconsistent. Problogger, ChrisG and others have also reported at sometime or another that feedburner seems to be having issues delivering a proper subscriber count.

Don’t get too attached to your daily feed count and if some days it takes a sudden drop don’t worry about it. Chances are it’s just a miscount and things will be back to normal tomorrow. Sometimes it could be that it’s not adding your email subscribers or something of that nature. If you focus on building useful content specific to the niche audience at hand readers will come naturally as a byproduct of your work.

I’m off to go get my wisdom teeth pulled! Supposedly it gets riskier the older I get and since I currently have insurance I figured now is the time. What really sealed the deal was when the dentist told me that unless I’m incredibly careful I will get cavities. I figure I can have them removed all together now or have to deal with cavities and possible removal later… Hopefully I’ll have a post for tomorrow but if I’m out cold and nowhere to be seen in the blogosphere you’ll know why!

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