The Next Web (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Established blogs like ReadWriteWeb and Techcrunch proudly show a Feedburner chicklet that displays the sites popularity. But beware – since people are more likely to subscribe to a site with a bigger amount of readers, some sites manipulate the counter. Every once and a while co-editor Patrick and I stumble on a shady looking website with [...]
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Feedburner hacked! from Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Vimeo. It is hardly surprising that FeedBurner’s subscriber numbers can be faked. What is surprising is how easy it is to do so. As the video above shows, all you need is a Netvibes account. The folks at the Next Web in Amsterdam took a [...]
Digital Inspiration (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Joop has discovered a very simple trick that will enable anyone to artificially inflate the FeedBurner subscriber count of any RSS feed that's syndicated via FeedBurner.
Engadget (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Filed under: Cellphones Motorola announced today that it would be appointing Qualcomm's former COO Sanjay Jha to head up its ailing handset division -- much to the chagrin of our own Ryan Block . Jha will also take on co-executive duties for the parent company along with current CEO Greg Brown. The news comes hot on the heels of speculation that the electronics-maker will spin off its mobile phone...
Daily Blog Tips (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Sure we all heard about hacking the feed count before, but only two ways that I knew about involved copying the Feedburner chicklet from another blog or manually creating fake emails account and subscribing to your own feed. The former was very easy to be detected, while the second was painfully time consuming (not that I tried...).
John Chow dot Com (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Remember when Shoemoney and I had that RSS competition to see who can get the most new RSS subscribers in a month? Remember how Shoe’s RSS shot up over 8,000 on the last day to beat me? Well, the video below is not how Shoe did it. He made me promise never to reveal his [...]
Tilt.no (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Filed under: Cellphones Motorola announced today that it would be appointing Qualcomm's former COO Sanjay Jha to head up its ailing handset division -- much to the chagrin of our own Ryan Block . Jha will also take on co-executive duties for the parent company along with current CEO Greg Brown. The news comes hot on the heels of speculation that the electronics-maker will spin off its mobile phone...
ProBlogger (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Every 2nd blog about blogging today seems to be writing about a video showing how to get 2500 subscribers overnight using a Netvibes accounts and an OPML file with thousands of copies of your own feed in it. I’ve had a lot of people email me to ask what I think about the technique. My response: 1. [...]
The Blog Herald (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
According to Joop Dorresteijn over at The Next Web, it’s possible to game Feedburner to artificially inflate the number of subscribers you have, simply by cutting and pasting an OPML file, using NetVibes, and waiting a few hours. It doesn’t actually increase subscribers (that’s the whole point) but it does inflate the count shown on the [...]
Bloggers Blog: Blogging the Blogsphere (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Many bloggers embed the Feedburner chicklet onto their blog to show how many readers they have. Unfortunately, this number is far from perfect. People may have subscribed to your feed from multiple RSS readers so there could easily be duplicate counts for the same user. This is especially true for blogs that have been around a while as people have changed rss readers over the years. There are also...
Webware.com (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
On Monday Joop Dorresteijn, Contributing editor at The Next Web unveiled a vulnerability in Google-owned feed tracking service Feedburner that lets anyone with some basic copy and paste skills and a Netvibes account pump up their blog subscriber numbers into the hundreds of thousands. The "hack" is a two step affair, first tweaking an OPML file that lists your subscriptions, then subscribing to said...
Quick Online Tips (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Is it easy to fake Feedburner RSS counts? Is it possible to gain 2000 readers in a day? Have you seen those rising Feedburner RSS counts on your competitor blogs while you struggle to get a few subscribers. It turns out that people are cheating away to actively create huge Feedburner chicklet counts and its [...] Share your views: Post a Comment Copyright 2008. Quick Online Tips. All Rights Reserved....
Crenk.com (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Feedburner hacked! from Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Vimeo. This is a simple loophole that is now out in the open. Thanks to JohnChow and Techcrunch for letting everyone know about it. Im not even going to try it out now, cause im sure it will be fixed within 24 hours by Feedburner. Related Articles ReadBurner: Looking [...]
Performancing (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
The fine folks over at theNEXTweb has published a video showcasing just how easy it is to manipulate your subscriber numbers in FeedBurner. Apparently, it's as easy as creating an OPML file, placing your FeedBurner URL into the file about 1,000 times or however many new subscribers you want, then importing this OPML file into Netvibes. Each module in NetVibes which loads your RSS feed will count as...
Live Crunch (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
While many bloggers wish is to reach 100 Rss Feed Subscribers on their blog , others make 10 times more in one night. Thenextweb.org shows video how to hack Feedburner Count and believe me it’s way easy!. Techcrunch posted this hack, as well as bunch of other blogs, as seen on TechMeme. I bet Google [...]
Geek News Central (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
This site does not use Feedburner nor it never will because I knew a long time ago that I can measure my own readership statistics a lot better than any third party will ever be able to. I never understood why people...
