Comments on: Feed Subscription Count – Should You Worry About It?

By: Kyle Eslick

Kyle Eslick — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:38:55 +0000

I think it depends on the focus of the blog. If your blog focuses on attracting readers, then obviously you want to extend your reach with feed subscribers. This also helps with advertising.

If your blog is focusing on search engine traffic, then it really isn’t important.

On each of my sites, I don’t place the Feedburner subscription box until it reaches 100 subscribers. Maybe its just personal preference, but I do know several people that won’t subscribe until a blog has 100+ (or some 500+) subscribers.

By: nirmaltv

nirmaltv — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:49:49 +0000

I feel we should not be worrying abt feed count or visitor count, if you write quality posts, you will definitely get attention.

By: Brown Baron

Brown Baron — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:26:20 +0000

I like to display my feed count so I can show how many people out there are crazy like me haha

By: ram

ram — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:29:38 +0000

Quality of the posts is important thing whether you display or not display your feedcount, if we dont have quality people will unsubscribe. I am sure that every blogger wants to increase subscriber count.

By: Aseem Kishore

Aseem Kishore — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:27:13 +0000

I try not to worry too much about how many RSS readers I have, whether it’s 0 or 10,000, I will always try to write the content to the best of my ability. Now it is nice to see it go up, which means you are becoming more popular and your site has something unique to offer.

By: Vijay

Vijay — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:53:31 +0000

Its about how secure you feel with your site and believe in its growth that makes you show or not show the stats. However, for some visitors this may be taken the wrong way..

By: Ken Xu

Ken Xu — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:23:08 +0000

@Garry:
That’s awesome, Garry! But for me, I choose to not displaying the feed because I’m not really focus on that stats. It’s depend on each other’s goals, though.

@indyankk:
Yup, I agree. Many people love to use ‘number’ to humiliate someone’s creativity. It’s just like our report card in high school. Bad mark represent bad student. Although you don’t think so, people around you will think with the public thought that the student is bad and seldom think on a different perspectives.

Thanks for commenting, buddies!

By: Innovations & interesting Ramblings

Innovations & interesting Ramblings — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 05:00:54 +0000

Very true , quality of content is more important than anything else…I also don’t understand the mindset of people who ignore subscribing to a blog based on its low feed count…I would rather not have those subscribers with herd mentality and would like to retain subscribers who subscribe based on quality of posts…

Unfortunately there are lot of people in the blogospere with herd mentality…

By: Garry Conn

Garry Conn — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:01:56 +0000

Great post dude. I am one to not really worry about my numbers. When I launch a new blog, I have no problem showing my 0 count on my feedburner.

Why? Because I want people to witness the growth. Also, even though I track stats with Analytics, I have started providing readers with public stats supplied by SiteMeter.