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		<title>Don&#8217;t we all just hate this!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phillip van Coller</dc:creator>
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by Blough
Have any of your Diggs been buried by some know it all idiot? And then at the end of the day he actually was wrong about the point he made for his reason to bury it.
Well&#8230; It gets me /


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by <a href="http://blaugh.com" title="Blaugh" target="_blank">Blough</a></p>
<p>Have any of your Diggs been buried by some know it all idiot? And then at the end of the day he actually was wrong about the point he made for his reason to bury it.</p>
<p>Well&#8230; It gets me /</p>


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		<title>Lushable.com &#8211; Huge Spike down!(-935 RSS)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phillip van Coller</dc:creator>
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After being exposed to their Feedburner scam Lushable.com went down to the same average subscribers of 79 (less than before their big spike &#8211; maybe we influenced a couple of readers?) on their blog.
Even though Jason has not admitted to anything this is kind of strange don&#8217;t you think? And as you can also see [...]


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<p>After being exposed to their <a href="http://www.affiliatelounge.co.za/articles/offbeat/feedburner-hacked-or-just-plain-cheating/" title="Feedburner Scam" target="_blank">Feedburner scam</a> Lushable.com went down to the same average subscribers of 79 (less than before their big spike &#8211; maybe we influenced a couple of readers?) on their blog.</p>
<p>Even though Jason has not admitted to anything this is kind of strange don&#8217;t you think? And as you can also see according to the graph the hits basically stayed the same all the way up and down. Hhmmm&#8230;</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think we will be seeing more of Jason here, would really like to know if he&#8217;s got some explanation of how this happened? Did he maybe have some Forum Competitions where people had to <strong>Unsubscribe from his blog?</strong></p>


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		<title>Feedburner Hacked or just plain Cheating!?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phillip van Coller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday while I was working and chatting with a friend of mine Jean Costa we spoke about a website Lushable.com. They claim to have about 1000+ feed subscribers to their blog according to their FeedCount displayed on their website. This startled me cause they are a fairly new blog that just started in December according [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.affiliatelounge.co.za/pics/fairplay.gif" class="none-img" alt="Fair Play?" align="left" />Yesterday while I was working and chatting with a friend of mine <a href="http://www.jeancosta.com" title="Jean Costa" target="_blank">Jean Costa</a> we spoke about a website <a href="http://www.Lushable.com" target="_blank" title="Lushable dot com">Lushable.com</a>. They claim to have about <strong>1000+ feed subscribers</strong> to their blog according to their FeedCount displayed on their website. This startled me cause they are a fairly new blog that just started in December according to Alexa. Is it possible to get <strong>1000+ subsribers in less than a month</strong>? Maybe by placing an add on BCC.com it might be. <strong>So I figured out what they did:</strong></p>
<p>Firstly I checked if the feedcount was fake, but it wasn&#8217;t&#8230; Came directly from Feedburner&#8217;s website. Then I used a nifty tool called the <a href="http://www.blogperfume.com/feed-analysis/" title="Feed Analysis Tool" target="_blank">Feed Analysis tool</a> from <a href="http://www.blogperfume.com/" title="Blog Perfume" target="_blank">Blogperfume.com</a>. This tool helps you check any Feedburner stats that have their API enabled.</p>
<p>So I ran the report and concluded that it&#8217;s true. They have an average of of 1000 subscribers for the past 4 days. But check this spike!:</p>
<p><img src="http://www.affiliatelounge.co.za/pics/chart1.gif" /></p>
<p>They went from the <strong>3rd (132 subscriber)</strong> to the <strong>4th (509 subscribers) </strong>to the <strong>5th (1012 subscribers)</strong>. In 3 days they got almost 1000% growth! Can you imagine what kind of traffic you need to your blog for that kind of spike in your RSS? You will also see on that graph that they have no views or clicks and a few hits. Weird for a blog with 1000 subscribers he? So I decided to have a look at their Alexa ranking if they indeed had a 100 000 visit spike for those days:</p>
<p><img src="http://www.affiliatelounge.co.za/pics/chart4.gif" /></p>
<p>As you can see there was no spike or any major traffic heading their way. Strange&#8230; Another special feature on this tool is a history viewer. So I compared it to <a href="http://www.adii.co.za" title="Adii" target="_blank">http://www.adii.co.za</a>&#8217;s feed:</p>
<p><img src="http://www.affiliatelounge.co.za/pics/chart3.gif" /></p>
<p>No clicks, no views and look at their <strong>hits</strong>. Naturally your hits is more than your readers like adii&#8217;s. They actually have less hits than readers and it&#8217;s cause they <strong>subscribed themselves</strong>! They probably created tons of different accounts and subscribed like crazy animals. According to Blogperfume&#8217;s tool this is how their future looks like:</p>
<p><img src="http://www.affiliatelounge.co.za/pics/chart2.gif" /></p>
<p>LOL, sounds good he? This is just proof that too many bloggers rely on their Feedcount to get more traffic and visitors. Maybe I am wrong and they got it legitimately?</p>
<p>I think they did it to get advertisers maybe&#8230; Here is a pic of their advertise page: (lol it&#8217;s funny)</p>
<p><img src="http://www.affiliatelounge.co.za/pics/chart5.gif" /></p>
<p>I wonder why they have a <strike>xxxxxx</strike> everywhere&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>How do you think they got it right?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Credits:</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.adii.co.za" title="Adii" target="_blank">Adii </a>-  Hope you don&#8217;t mind me using you<br />
<a href="http://www.Blogperfume.com" title="Blog Perfume" target="_blank">Blogperfume </a>- For their handy tool<br />
<a href="http://www.Feedburner.com" title="Feedburner" target="_blank">Feedburner</a> &#8211; We love you!<br />
<a href="http://www.lushable.com" title="Lushable" target="_blank">Lushable </a>- For making me laugh</p>
<p><font color="#ff0000">Update:  <a href="http://www.blogperfume.com/feed-analysis/?uri=lushable" target="_blank">Link to RSS Report for Lushable.com</a> </font></p>


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		<title>Pop-ups hit the real world!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phillip van Coller</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is what happens in a test to take pop-ups to the world.</p>
<p><img src="http://blaugh.com/cartoons/061114_real_life_popups.gif" alt="Pop-ups" height="250" width="447" /></p>
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		<title>Have a good Christmas!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2007 04:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
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From me here at Affiliate Lounge, have a great Christmas! And remember to switch your computer off!  


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<p>From me here at Affiliate Lounge, have a great Christmas! And remember to switch your computer off! <img src='http://www.affiliatelounge.co.za/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>


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		<title>Evolution in the making!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we all know, the web is being overrun(in a good way) with young entrepreneurs. Well here it is proven again:

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As we all know, the web is being overrun(in a good way) with young entrepreneurs. Well here it is proven again:</p>
<p><img src="http://blaugh.com/cartoons/Google_KidSense.gif" alt="Google Kidsense" height="250" width="447" /></p>
<p>Image by <a href="http://blaugh.com" target="_blank" title="bLaugh">http://blaugh.com</a></p>


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