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Dosh Dosh explores Why You Should Build Your Feed Subscriber Base and gives a variety of good reasons for building up the number of readers subscribing to your blog including: Personal Gratification Feed-based Monetization Social Proof Ability to Initiate Feed-Level Promotions Improved Linkability Buzz Generators I’d add two more reasons ...more

Two weeks ago I asked ProBlogger readers – Which Feed Reader is Best? 219 responses were left with 37 different ways of reading RSS feeds suggested. Today I counted them all up and graphed the top 11 responses (these were the ones that had 4 or more votes). This reinforces ...more

“Hi darren! you could perhaps write a post on weather or not one should display the number of rss subscribers even though you don’t have that many. Personally I think displaying them is a sign of honesty and those who don’t… I get the feeling of trying to be something ...more

Time for a little reader debate discussion. Which Feed Reader do you use and Why? Are you a Google Reader fan? A Bloglines junkie? Do you prefer NewsGator, Firefox Live Bookmarks or Netvibes? Or do you prefer to follow blogs via MyYahoo or iGoogle? Which one do you use – ...more

I’ve had a few people ask me lately if there was some kind of list of blogs with the biggest RSS subscriber lists with Feedburner counters. Today Stan sent me a Top 40 list that he’d compiled on the topic. I’m not really one to go into these type of ...more

This post has been submitted by Neil Patel. Neil is co-founder and CTO of ACS ) and writes regularly on social media issues through the company’s blog, Pronet Advertising. The main reason most people use Feedburner is because it shows how many RSS subscribers they have. That might be a ...more

Thanks to everyone who has added their thoughts on why they unsubscribe from a blog’s RSS feed. There have been 109 comments left on that post so far and some interesting recurring themes have emerged. I’ve attempted to categorize them below. Obviously with 103 opinions (and most people giving multiple ...more

Feedburner has released a report this morning that is well worth reading if you’re interested in RSS metrics and the recent changes in how Google Reader is reporting he numbers of those using their service. For analysis of the report head over to Aaron Brazell and TechCrunch.

Many bloggers with Feedburner running their feeds noticed a bump in subscriber numbers over the last couple of days (my own jumped from 11,000 to 18,000 – partly as a result of two posts on Digg’s popular page). Does this mean we’ve all suddenly been inundated with new subscribers? I’m ...more