Just 26 days after passing the 6,000 RSS readers mark, this blog has broken the 7,000 RSS milestone – the FeedBurner chicklet is showing 7,107 RSS readers. What that means is 7,107 people read this blog with the full feed RSS yesterday. Today’s figure will be available tomorrow. I predict it will go higher.
I have wrote several articles on how to increase RSS subscription. For those who missed them, here they are again:
- How To Increase RSS Subscriptions
- How To Get RSS Readers To Visit Your Blog
- Evil Way To Increase RSS Subscriptions (This is more of a joke post)
You want people to add your feed to their RSS reader because it serves the same purpose as a bookmark. Remember how hard publishers used to encourage readers to bookmark their sites? RSS is the new bookmark – having 7,107 RSS readers is the same as having 7,107 bookmarks. It doesn’t matter if a reader doesn’t check your feed everyday. As long as you’re in their reader, you have a way to reach them.
A high RSS readership makes your blog less dependent on the search engine. Google thinks they can teach me a lesson by slapping me down in the SERP. Google will eventually discover that they can’t keep the root of all evil down. The best way to get my SERP ranking back is to keep increasing traffic. Next stop: 8,000 RSS readers.
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Congratulations John.
Yeh congrats John! I’m glad google hasn’t stopped you from blogging. Keep up the good work
Theres still time
Congratulations John. Let me think about it. It’s been only 8 months or so and you already have such amazing results. I’m still amazed.
But beware Johny!
I’m coming with my .
RSS is the way to go, Great stuff John. I’ll be quite happy once I reach 50.
Simon
Love those messages in the RSS feed for chances to win cool prizes, sign me up!
Very impressive
Keep up the good work dude!
Well done, here’s a badge.
Congrats John
Your evil ways are paying off. Great work!
Congrats
Your site is growing well
Congratulations
Congratulations!
John you the man, you make growing and scaling a blog seem easy. I am glad i read this post, i had completely ignored RSS feeds from my blog. I just a button that one could use to bookmark easily.I will implement my RSS today and see what that does. I wonder if you make six figures? let us know in a post if you banking in.good work John. i am struggling to make 3 figures to breakeven and pay my host back
do you think my blog could scale?
http://www.yeoq.com
I got 8 subscribers in 2 weeks.
I’ll be johnchowing my blog heavily and the number of subscribtions will go up.
Grats on 7000.
What do you mean by johnchowing your blog???
I’m holding a Subscribe 2 Win contest in order to increase my subscribers. It’s working so far;) It’s just a personal blog but that’s were it starts,..right?
Visit ur blog……
So I’m looking forward to reading your suggested posts on how one goes about getting 7,107 RSS readers! Way to go!
Congrats John, that’s amazing! I’m almost there with ya…sitting at ten right now. lol. I bet you don’t even remember the day when you had then, do ya?
Keep it up.
He actually might. It doesn’t look like it was *too* long ago.
DevDad
*then* should have been ten, sorry.
7k! Welcome to the big leagues!
I noticed this morning, many congratulations John. I’m sure we’ll all be here when it hits 8000.
ooh i congrats him before the post went up I’m extra special today
Congrats!
Google is an also-ran when it comes to blogs.
Congratulations, I can’t wait the day when my BMW b log will hit 7k.
Wow an average of 38 new subscrivers per day… incredible…
Congrats!
Oh, wait. Google now owns your feeds too, unless you leave Feedburner. Google could screw your feeds too.
I wonder, if somebody evil be a fren of Google, then he/she can screw anybody’s feed or something. Or Google it self screw
Gratz man; 7000 rss feeds is like a dream for me man, like its for far out. Gratz again man!
Congrats. I think you have it easy. A lot of your visitors are people who know more about the internet and technology. Ask an older person what an RSS feed is and they probably will have no clue.
Congratulations! You will pass 10000 soon too
Great Job, mine is slowly increasing as well.
Nice John, keep up the great work. This blog is well worth more RSS readers too.
Maybe end of this month will reach 9000 ++ Readers
i feel like i had a little to do with this!
keep up the good work! 
Nice one John, you make it look so easy. It’ll be interesting to see how many subscribers my newly created site has after the same amount of time your blog has been going.
Congratulations John! I subscribed to your blog recently and I really enjoy every single post you make. I hope someday, I will be able to have a very good blog like this one
Nice milestone! Slowly but surely my subscriber count is growing.
I also wanted to let you know that your sidebar is appearing at the end of all your posts instead of on the right where it should be. I’m using IE. Just thought you should know.
Congrats!!
My blog just reach 1,000 subscriptions.
If you like, you can add my RSS too.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/adsense-tw
That’s quite an accomplishment! How long has it been up and running? Also, did you do anything special to make it happen?
DevDad
Congratulations John!!!
Glad to be a part of it.
John, read over your posts from the last couple of months. Then compare them to a month’s worth of posts from much earlier in the year. The difference is dramatic and not for the better. I don’t care what your RSS numbers say, your blog has gone down hill QUICK. Just look at the comments left here. They’re worthless and half of them can’t even speak English well enough to make sense!
This site is supposed to be about Making Money Online. When’s the last time you even used that in the title of a post?
I miss the old JohnChow.com… you know, back when you still cared and weren’t sitting back just collecting paychecks.
7000 is a nice number, I have a lot of work ahead of me, still on 15 readers. Not enough to display the counter yet.
Very impressive we all can just hope we become as successful as you from the information you share with us! THANKS!
Congrats on finally reaching 7,000 RSS subscribers, John! Now aim for 70,000!
Steve
I have seen one blog which had more than 45,000+ RSS by feedburner!
Congratulation! You will slowly increase to that also!
Great Job, mine is slowly increasing as well.
Congrats! I hope to be able to hit the same numbers you do with my RSS readers in the future
I can’t get anyway nead your subscribers divided to 100 (70).
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Anyway, this is also my other entry in participation in the Third Copy of the 4-hour Workweek book (I read your RSS
Congratulations John. I would never be able to achieve such a huge number.
Hey John
Well done on the 7000.
Just want to say thanks for your all the useful info. you provide. I found your blog a month or two back and I can’t get enough.
Your growth of rss readers is worth commending… Congrats!
I want the signed copy of The 4-Hour Workweek!
congrats
Congrats, how’s the 4-hour work week?
Congrats John. Hmmm…I am estimating your readers count will cross 25K before the end of this year.
This is my reply…mostly just for the book! Congrats, though!
Ugh. More Chow-ites.
Jason
Not all of his subscribers are “Chow-ites”. There are plenty of people on here that think John walks on water but there are also quite a few of us that realize John Chow dot com has jumped the shark. It’s not been useful for months now…
Book me plenty!
That’s just awesome John, congrats.
I would really like to win this, maybe 3 times is the charm?
Fourth entry!
I’m one of them!
When I saw 7000 and counting, I thought in addition to the contents on the blog you must have tweaked the rss to keep and grow the readers .. and I was right. Your feed are certainly different and stand out of the crowd.
You’re on your way to 8,000 – it says 7,381 now! Wow! Congratulations!
How many copies of this book do you *have*, John?
BTW congratulations on 7000.
Disclosure: This comment is for the sole purpose of the 4 hr w w book entry..
Vijay
Woo.
so amazing.
you are enavied.
Congrats John
4-hour work week entry.
How many hours do you work a week, John?
I certainly work more than 4 hours a week — the book sounds interesting.
I’m proud to be one of your RSS subscribers too.
Looks like i must subscribe to John too
Replying via RSS…congrats!
Way to go
This is my second entry for your book giveaway
rss is the best. thx for more opportunities on the book also.
Count me as one of your RSS readers and enter me in for the book drawing. Thanks.
Yes that Google Reader RSS makes for a great way to get another entry for the book! Thanks….
Congrats John, my blog just one more person to reach 10 thousands oopsss!! Just 10 huhu
Anyone know any top commentator plugin for Blogger please??
Really impressive growth numbers. Looks like you’re already very close to 7.5k today.
has anyone ever told you that you look a lot like the son off Sopranos, Anthony Jr.?
congrats! my blog is only at 40 rss readers so I have a long way to go.
… and I’d love a copy of that tim ferriss book.
Well done John – seems like you were right, today is now your highest day! It’s my new record today too!
Here’s to the future (and to 4 hour workweek)
I want the book!
And now it is 7381, wow, what so fat gaining!!!! How did you do dat actually sifu??
Actually it is fast not fat , sorry
Just to nitpick, that isn’t the number of people who read your feed yesterday. That’s the number of people who had your feed in their feed reader, if you want the number of people who actually read your feed yesterday – go to feedburner and look for the ‘reach’ number.
Now that is a big number
In couple of months I guess the chicklet will run out of digits
Jeba
It will then display in terms of K…once this crosses 10000, it will display as 10K.
Heh, good tip about stealing other’s clicklets to increase your RSS subscribers. I might give it a try. Muahahahaha
Hey John …this is my second entry for the 4 hour work week contest.
just giveaway a book and reach more than 7k subscribers. Nice. I’ll think about it…
wow nice stats. I barely get over 10 readers these days. ugh… Once you get big you don’t go back I guess.
It looks like you will have 20 000 by end of the year.
Can you compare how much you make with every 1000 new subsribers? Is there some trend in earning growth?
You are true evil John!!! Anyways this also acts as my 2nd entry for the book!
-400 down in the 6 thousands now
Keep it up! Congratulations!