5,000 RSS Subscribers

Ha, I learned my lesson about live lobsters when I went to Morton's in Chicago.

Congrats! Do we get some treat? (But no live lobsters please :mrgreen: )

I've always loved that third post about the evil way to increase RSS. :twisted: 5,000 subscriptions...wow, John, you must feel all frothy inside!

This might be true, but it is still a wee bit embarassing.

John,

On one of your tips you suggested to not publish the number of feed count if it is less than 50 or so. I will have to disagree because given that same token, it's not hard to estimate one's feed count if you have the RSS button there but no count.

I also think that sometimes it can actually help you to post your count regardless of how small because new subscribers will know that by subscribing, they are that much more important to the blogger as opposed to subscribing to techcrunch with its 400K count.

I proudly posted mine when it was a lonely 6. That way new readers can take comfort in knowing they helped build the readers base from the ground up :evil:

You are truly a dot com mogul. If I can only get more than 2 subscribers :cry:
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Congratulations on that awesome achievement. Someday I hope to have a fraction of that :)

CONGRATULATIONS on the achievement..

Congratulations on reaching the 5K milestone. Divide that by 1,000 to determine my RSS readership :lol:

I'm one out of 5000...that sucks :shock:

I tried to build my readership via RSS, then realised. Why do i want people to read via that? Surely its better to get people back on your site as much as possible

congrats..

I will try for rss readers

:cool:

congrats JC :evil:

Congrats John...onwards to 7500 now !!

Hmm 5,000 seems like a nice round number. I think I want one too :mrgreen:

Congrats on breaking 5,000! Only 5,000 more to go right? :grin:

Well, maybe it'd take a boost. But JohnChow.com has sent me a few visitors here and there.

Congratulations. I had 82 unique visitors yesterday, so HA. I'm getting there, don't worry.

well done john

next target 10,000

Way to go John. I like the way you are tuned to the station WIIFM - What's In It For Me. Good to see it's broadcasting loud and clear from Van.

Don't forget about personality. I could get all of the same info you give from someone else, no offense, but I choose to subscribe to your feed because I like how you write as much as what you write.

It also helps that you have a better grasp on writing proper English than many native english speakers that blog or write for newspapers today.

Congratuilations John !! Wish I had 5000 subscribers :grin:

Personally I love RSS feeds, I get to most of the blogs I read through my Netvibes home.

way to go.

Maybe you can teach us how to get from 0 to 50 feeds first. :idea:

Congratulations!

One of my favourite ways to increase raw numbers is a bit sneaky, and I've done it on this comment. Can you figure it out? :twisted: :twisted:

Congratulations ! :lol: :lol:

I think that the last comment about how good content is important is the key to this post.

I've noticed that post regularity greatly improves the number of subscribers to my feed. When people see the same story for a number of days, or boring stories repeatedly, they'll unsubscribe from the feed, and probably won't bother to come back.

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CONGRATULATIONS on the achievement John!

Through many hours of work and providing great content it was only a matter of time. I just broke the 10 mark..... LOL

Looking forward to seeing you hit the 6000 mark!

Stephen

W00t!

Way to go John. If you update 4 times a day like yourself Im sure that also helps. Im only at 122 but it goes up everyday, because I am posting regularly.

I have a question though. If you post twice, and a person uses their rss reader twice to check your blog does that count as 2 or 1?