Why I no Longer Display my RSS Subscriber Count
August 9th, 2008 | 4 comments
A while back Feedburner and AWeber started working together in order to display AWeber email subscriber numbers along with Feedburner RSS subscriber numbers.
This was and is great news for those who run mailing lists with AWeber. They can now offer loads of “Social Proof” by integrating Feedburner with AWeber and displaying their newly acquired feed subscriber #’s through their Feedburner chiclets.
But what about those of us who go through GetResponse for our email marketing? We kind of get the short end of the stick.
I’m not really complaining, well, ok I am to a point 
I don’t blame those who use AWeber for going through with the integration, I would too!
And it’s not like it’s false info. These people have that “reach” and they should be able to show it. The problem is, people like me who use GetResponce aren’t able to accurately display our true reach, so it’s kind of a crappy situation.
So, I’m going to post exactly what my RSS subscriber count would be right now (if it were accurately calculated) if I used AWeber instead of GetResponse as my email marketing service and then I’ll never show my RSS numbers again… well not for a while anyway
If I used AWeber, my RSS Subscriber Count would display:
7,922 with approx. 40 new subscribers being added each day.
I guess this is an ego thing But hopefully at least a few people know something after reading this post they didn’t know before in regards to Feedburner Subscriber counts.
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9th August, 2008 at 9:29 pm
I know one way we could make your subscriber count chicklet accurate. (wink wink, nod nod).
BTW, one blogger we work with had a 32% increase in opt-in conversion by including the subscriber chicklet on his opt-in page. You might want to reconsider (or test) having the chicklet there vs. taking it off.
10th August, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Josh it sooo isnt an “ego” thing to display your feed stats or subs stats. I wouldnt even go so far as to call it social “proof”, or maybe it is. Ive of two minds on this. I run a few blogs one of them is personal and my group of friends read it somewhat daily from what they tell me, yet they dont know what RSS is even though ive explained it and shown them how to use it. anyways, my point is really that. People are herd creatures and like doing what others are doing. I get your feed and newsleter and read regularly (good stuff btw !!!). SHowing your sub stats is just saying hey 7,000 people read this blog !! wow !! thanks for being one them. You obviously have a cult of personality going which is a good thing, not an ego thing. If 7,000 peple find it interesting enough to devote some of their time currency to then you should show them that theyre alone and that others are doing the same thing a smart thing.
Cheers and beers
Shane
11th August, 2008 at 1:07 pm
I removed my FeedBurner chicklet once I saw that the subscriber stats fluctuated so greatly. I thought it was supposed to grab the subscriber count, simple.
Not.
11th August, 2008 at 4:12 pm
@ Tom - I like GetResponse, but I have no problem at all with AWeber either. It’s just one of those things. I started my very first list with them, so it seems like a big pain in the butt to transfer.
I’d have to get all of my lists to reconfirm, right? If that’s the case I’d definitely lose hundreds, probably thousands of leads… that’s the problem.
@ Shane - True, but the whole issue is that since I use GetResponse, I’m not showing my true reach, I’m only showing 700 or so or my approx. 8,000.
@ Kimberly - The way they do it is kinda complicated, but it’s fairly accurate. It just gets annoying when you think that they’re now counting email opt-ins from AWeber, but not GetResponse or any other email marketing service.