I was surprised when I woke up this morning to find that my feed count was about 3-400 less than what it should be. At first I was amazed that so many people unsubscribed just because I missed a day or two of posting (yesterday was the last day of finals, so cut me some slack!), but after noticing this post on Dave’s blog I realized it was just a hiccup in the system.
Apparantly Google’s Feedfetcher is not displaying accurate results for some people, including me. Here is a little before and after:
Before (Monday of last week):
After (Yesterday):
As you can see if your blog has seen a drastic drop in subscriber numbers it is probably just Google’s Feedfetcher screwing up, so don’t be alarmed. What confuses me is how Feedfetcher is only having a problem displaying some of the readers. Also, it does not seem to be a global problem as some other blogs I visit seem to have the correct amount of subscribers.
I know this may not seem like a big deal, but that is about another 300 daily feed impressions at least that I am not getting credit for, thus my FeedBurner Ad Network impressions (which are paid by CPM) are lower than they should be. That means perhaps less money from FAN which actually accounts for about 10% of this blog’s monthly revenue. Hopefully they’ll get this fixed soon.
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Add your commentMy Feedburner stats have been going up and up – particularly over the past couple of days. I hope I am not going to wake up tomorrow to see a ‘correction’!
- Martin Reed
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I noticed the same thing this morning.
While I don’t have the same RSS sub stats as you the percentage drop (circa 30-35%) is the same.
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Yea, I noticed a 20% drop in feed subscribers today also. Glad it’s not just me. :)
FT
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Wow….
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Haha, imagine the look on my face as I checked my stats this morning in hopes of being closer to my goal of 100 subscribers, and seeing that they had dropped with around 20% instead. Glad to see it’s not just me :)
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Pretty funny you wrote about this actually, I got a shock this morning noticing subscribers about 25% down. SO I figured:
“Matt shows his readers in a widget I wonder if his dropped too”
Then I saw the post :P
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Same here….huge fluctuations. I removed the Feed burner counter now until I have numbers to be proud of. I saw spread of 10-15 drops with just a few hours. I couldn’t imagine why that many people would suddenly unsubscribe. Now I know, thanks.
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My stats went down like 30% over night. I had no idea what was going on, so thanks for this post.
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[...] was not the only one affected by a huge drop in RSS subscribers. Both David Lithman and Matt of Net Business Blog were hit as well. It turns out the problem was a glitch in Google’s [...]
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Well Joh Chow today said the same thing he had almost a 1000 drop outs..this was an error due to Google Feed fetcher..
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I hope this gets solved.
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