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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Setting up an email subscription form with Google FeedBurner for your site or blog

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

I thought I would take the time today to elaborate on an easy way to set up an email opt in form for your blog. The advantages of having an email subscription feature on your blog are tremendous.

With an email subscription program, you can:

• Automatically send followers updates of your blog which will of course create more traffic
• Let your followers know about major site changes
• Send your followers special offers (if they opt in)

A huge mistake Internet marketers make after creating their first successful website is to not have an email subscription form. In the world of Internet marketing, email contacts are everything. They are your lifeline into a world of opportunities. You need a way to get in contact with your base; and it doesn’t matter how excellent you believe your site is, sometimes people just lose interest, forget your address or lose your site bookmark. Sometimes, they just need a prod — email notifications are an ideal way to do that.

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Why you should subscribe to this blog

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Be one of the first to subscribe to this blog and get a free permanent dofollow link to your blog on the star subscribers list. The links will be ordered starting from the first subscribers to last so get your spot now to secure valuable PR juice and massive traffic from this blog in the future! This is a limited time offer for my first group of subscribers only.

All you need to do is enter your email into the subscribe form in the right-hand sidebar, wait till you get your first email update and then forward it to chrisscott11us@yahoo.com. If you prefer to subscribe via an RSS reader, then take a picture of your feed (from the reader) and send it to the prior stated email address.

Subscribers will receive the hottest tips on:

• Reaching a larger audience with your blog
• Making money from your blog
• Developing good content for your blog
• Managing your blog platform
• Designing your blog
• And much more!

Once subscribed via email, you will be sent new blog posts at the end of each day. Should I not update this blog (which will be a rare occurrence), you will not get the email.

I will never share your email address with other parties. You will have the option to unsubscribe at the bottom of every email.

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