Why your FeedBurner count will never be accurate

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Nearly a week ago, I redirected all of the feeds on this blog to a FeedBurner feed (which allows me to track and manage my feed) and placed the code (provided by FeedBurner) that displays the feed count into a custom HTML widget in my sidebar.

I was ecstatic to see my feed count rise every day. Every morning, I would wake up and check if the FeedBurner fairy had visited me with more subscribers. I would either throw my arms in the air, gleaming in triumph and success or lull my head down in utter shame and defeat. Even with the addition of one subscriber I felt like I had accomplished something.

Boy was I wrong.

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