Where Do Feedburner Numbers Come From Anyway?

I admit it. I have a problem. It’s possible that sometimes when I wake up in the morning, I reach over to my smartphone and skim the internet a bit while I try to convince myself that I should actually get out of bed and be a productive person. And maybe, every so often, I check my blog subscriber numbers. I blame Feedburner for the obsession. There’s nothing to be done about it now. It’s morning, coffee, Feedburner. It’s just all part of waking up.

I had talked with Rick Klau from Feedburner a couple of weeks ago to see just where the numbers come from. When I woke up this morning and saw that my stats had once again run off to parts unknown (possibly St. Lucia), I figured this morning might be a good time to post that article and let everyone else in on the details.

So, if you’re interested in just how Feedburner comes up with its subscriber numbers, and why some days we wake up to morning, coffee, and a sad, sad stats state, head on over to Search Engine Land and check out How Feedburner Adds Up Subscriber Numbers.

6 Comments to "Where Do Feedburner Numbers Come From Anyway?"

  1. Igor The Troll on 9 November, 2007

    Ha, Ha! I am first…I am a virgin!

    And I am off topic!
    Everyone must be at SeoMoz watching Rand and DaveN ducking it out.

    Okay this is serious.
    Vanessa darling, this one is for Buffy.
    Google Inc.
    Promoting Sex and Malware in Google Groups

  2. Igor The Troll on 10 November, 2007

    Vanessa, where are your fans?
    I need to promote you more..:)

  3. 5ubliminal on 11 November, 2007

    Igor … we don’t wanna know about your s3xlife.
    Oh my God! I bump into you everywhere!

  4. Judd on 11 November, 2007

    Vanessa, rock on wichabadself. We all have our coffee copilots.

    You know, I really didn’t have anything to say in here, I’m only commenting to try and class up your comments section.

    Smooches.

  5. Igor The Troll on 11 November, 2007

    Subliminal, great blog you have with informative information, I just do not get why the empty space on top, when viewing at 860 resolution.

  6. [...] I mentioned last week, I recently talked with Rick Klau of Feedburner and dug into where all the subscriber numbers come from. From that came my write-up at Search [...]

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