Stealing Feed Counts Is Lame

It’s sad when bloggers have to resort to deception to make themselves look better.

Check out the code of this guy’s feed count.

<a href=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/InternetMarketingSucks”>
<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/NetBusinessBlog?bg=0066FF&fg=
FFFFFF&anim=0″ height=”26″ width=”88″ style=”border:0″ alt=”" /></a></li>

Even if you don’t know HTML, you can see that “NetBusinessBlog” shouldn’t be there.

I looked at his website. He’s got some good information. But why copy a feed count to look better? Anyone can look at his Alexa ranking (238,000) and subscriber count (1,600) and see that something is fishy.

Blogging is about authenticity and reputation. Don’t wreck your reputation with lame shortcuts.

Thanks to Matt for notifying us of this.

Want to learn how he stole our feed count? Check out this post, How I Got 283k Feed Subscribers in 1 Day.