Comments on: Feedburner Hacked or just plain Cheating!?

By: Phillip

Phillip — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:29:42 +0000

@Uzair That sucks man! He also contacted me for advertising, said he wanted to go huge. Guess what, he never came back…

By: Uzair

Uzair — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:48:38 +0000

Yeah! The count was faked. But my story is worse than that. When Jason was yet to launch lushable, he contacted me on my blog and told that he wanted to hire me for blogging on Lushable.Com. He said he likes my writtin and will pay $0.03 per word and 50% bonus. He said he will make payment every week. So, I wrote 7 articles in the first week and my work accounted for about $100. When the payment came, he didn’t come on Skype where we used to chat. Since that day, he never answers any IM, even though he is online, and never answers any emai. Now that a month has passed, I researched about Lushable and came to this page. Guess what, he still mentions me on “Authors” page (Uzair Nazir). I don’t want him to pay me now, but I would like to say him “Best of luck” with your fake life.

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:07:41 +0000

Great article, but you have to remember not to rely so heavily on the Alexa rating because it’s not accurate. I mean, I know someone that gets like 500 uniques a day and they’re ranked better than someone that got 10,000 in one day… but the 10,000, a lot of them don’t have the Alexa toolbar installed or anything… so it’s hard to determine.

But overall, great article! Very interesting, fake or not… I mean, the subscribers that is!

Jay
DatMoney.com

By: BlogTopf.de - von Paul Neumann

BlogTopf.de - von Paul Neumann — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:47:22 +0000

1000 RSS-Feed Abonnenten durch Manipulation?…

Feeds werden in der Blogosphaere nun auch schon manipuliert, so wird im englischsprachigen Raum berichtet, ueber einen aktuellen Fall “Lushable.com”.
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By: Phillip

Phillip — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:41:45 +0000

No problem Beth, I understand.

By: Beth

Beth — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:37:24 +0000

I’m sorry for not reading all 70 comments, but I’m aggravated because I’ve been accused by several people of gaming FeedBurner. That’s why I said do some research because I’ve had to personally email the accusers and show screenshots of my stats and the notification on FeedBlitz regarding their little bug.

By: Øyvind

Øyvind — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:34:27 +0000

Thanks for bringing my attention to that blog. They have a fun play ^D^D^D^D interview there now.

By: Chris M

Chris M — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:39:54 +0000

Hahaha, that’s classic! lawl

By: Phillip

Phillip — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:38:15 +0000

@Beth – ROFL, you should have read all the comments before making a comment like that. I know about the errors that occurred, and it wasn’t in that time. We had enough proof to make a statement like that and I’m sure Lushable would agree. But thanks, I make sure of the facts before I post anything like this

By: Beth

Beth — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:27:44 +0000

FeedBlitz also has a bug at the moment which is causing some subscriber counts to go out the roof. I saw mine go from 115 to over 700 in 24 hours. It was then supposedly fixed, the number went back to within the normal range, yet it happened again. You can read about the bug on FeedBlitz, I haven’t seen an update from them since the original report, but it’s still occurring. No, I’m not cheating, in fact I’ve never used FeedBlitz so I’ve never had a subscriber from there. It’s happening to quite a few bloggers-so check around before accusing people of faking RSS numbers.