Is it easy to fake Feedburner RSS counts? Is it possible to gain 2000 readers in a day?
Easy Hack: Increase Feedburner RSS Counts
Techcrunch provides an insight into how the guys at Next Web demonstrated an increased Feedburner feedcount from 43 subscribers to 2500 overnight simply by creating an OPML file with the same feed copied 2,500 times and pasting it into their Netvibes page, and FeedBurner counted them as separate subscribers! See this video :
Google must be on its way to patch this up, and display the original number of subscribers a feed has. It will be really interesting to see which blogs loose bunch of subscribers.
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well this is interesting but I am not going to try this one, I want to get real subscribers
Google/Feedburner will find out about this and you may end up going from 2500 fake readers back to 40 real readers overnight. That would be crushing. Instead we should all trade ways to increase real read