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Over 2,000 AFM Subscribers Have Vanished!
By JLP | June 23, 2008
For some reason my Feedburner Subscriber stats are WAY OFF! I should have somewhere around 4,700 subscribers but Feedburner is only showing 2,500. I have no idea what’s up with that. I did upgrade my blog software and I’m pretty sure the dropoff has something to do with that. I’ve got a guy working on it but so far we haven’t got it figured out yet.
In the meantime, you can still subscribe to AllFinancialMatters by either clicking on the Feedburner box located in the upper right hand side of the page or by going to:
Feeds.Feedburner.com/AllFinancialMatters
Topics: Blogging | 10 Comments »
June 23rd, 2008 at 10:31 am
I wish I could vanish at the gas pumps – LOL!
June 23rd, 2008 at 11:01 am
I had a similar issue last week – All of my subscribers vanished. They’re back though. I’m hoping it was just a Feedburner blip.
June 23rd, 2008 at 11:38 am
When did this happen? Most likely from My Yahoo subscribers not reporting to feedburner:
http://groups.google.com/group/feedburner/web/known-issues-workarounds
Should be fixed soon.
June 23rd, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Feedburner and Yahoo aren’t playing nicely, apparently. Yahoo isn’t reporting My Yahoo readers. I think there’s a thread on the MBN Forums about it. Unless this is something different…?
June 23rd, 2008 at 1:05 pm
nevermind… looks like it *was* something different.
June 24th, 2008 at 9:20 am
I know they sometimes drop google readers for a day or two (this shows as massive drops in readership count – the older the blog, the worse the drop). I also know that the google reader count never goes down. Once someone subscribes via google, they are counted as a reader forever. This makes me wonder how accurate those counts actually are.
June 24th, 2008 at 9:43 am
Do you have the Feedburner Feedsmith plugin installed and activated? That helps give proper reporting. If you upgraded, that plugin may not have been reactivated.
June 24th, 2008 at 10:40 am
i saw a drop as well, but since i don’t have nearly as many subscribers, it was only about 30 subscribers (significant for me). They seem to be almost back up to where they were now.
June 24th, 2008 at 10:49 am
Pete,
Mine are still way off. I’m pretty sure it has something to do with the URL change I did a couple of years ago. At that time I simply redirected all of my subscribers to the new feed. When I upgraded my software, I’m pretty sure something got jacked up.
It’s not a big deal but I would like my numbers to be accurate. It’s disheartening to lose 2,000 subscribers.
June 24th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
Happens several times a year. Hiccups in the system. Technorati rankings are doing the same thing right now – my primary blog jumps from 12,000th to 20,000th place every other day. Stinkin’ internet.