Firstly I checked if the feedcount was fake, but it wasn’t… Came directly from Feedburner’s website. Then I used a nifty tool called the Feed Analysis tool from Blogperfume.com. This tool helps you check any Feedburner stats that have their API enabled.

So I ran the report and concluded that it’s true. They have an average of of 1000 subscribers for the past 4 days. But check this spike!:

They went from the 3rd (132 subscriber) to the 4th (509 subscribers) to the 5th (1012 subscribers). 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:

As you can see there was no spike or any major traffic heading their way. Strange… Another special feature on this tool is a history viewer. So I compared it to http://www.adii.co.za’s feed:

No clicks, no views and look at their hits. Naturally your hits is more than your readers like adii’s. They actually have less hits than readers and it’s cause they subscribed themselves! They probably created tons of different accounts and subscribed like crazy animals. According to Blogperfume’s tool this is how their future looks like:

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?

I think they did it to get advertisers maybe… Here is a pic of their advertise page: (lol it’s funny)

I wonder why they have a xxxxxx everywhere…

How do you think they got it right?

Credits:
Adii - Hope you don’t mind me using you
Blogperfume - For their handy tool
Feedburner – We love you!
Lushable - For making me laugh

Update: Link to RSS Report for Lushable.com

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