New Blog Milestone - 7000 RSS Readers
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.
Reply to this commentYeh congrats John! I’m glad google hasn’t stopped you from blogging. Keep up the good work
Reply to this commentTheres still time
Reply to this commentCongratulations 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.
Reply to this commentBut 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
Reply to this commentLove those messages in the RSS feed for chances to win cool prizes, sign me up!
Reply to this commentVery impressive
Keep up the good work dude!
Reply to this commentWell done, here’s a badge.
Reply to this commentCongrats John
Reply to this commentYour evil ways are paying off. Great work!
Reply to this commentCongrats
Reply to this commentYour site is growing well
Congratulations
Reply to this commentCongratulations!
Reply to this commentJohn 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
Reply to this commentdo 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.
Reply to this commentWhat do you mean by johnchowing your blog???
Reply to this commentI’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?
Reply to this commentVisit ur blog……
Reply to this commentSo I’m looking forward to reading your suggested posts on how one goes about getting 7,107 RSS readers! Way to go!
Reply to this commentCongrats 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.
Reply to this commentHe actually might. It doesn’t look like it was *too* long ago.
DevDad
Reply to this comment*then* should have been ten, sorry.
Reply to this comment7k! Welcome to the big leagues!
Reply to this commentI noticed this morning, many congratulations John. I’m sure we’ll all be here when it hits 8000.
Reply to this commentooh i congrats him before the post went up I’m extra special today
Reply to this commentCongrats!
Google is an also-ran when it comes to blogs.
Reply to this commentCongratulations, I can’t wait the day when my BMW b log will hit 7k.
Reply to this commentWow an average of 38 new subscrivers per day… incredible…
Reply to this commentCongrats!
Oh, wait. Google now owns your feeds too, unless you leave Feedburner. Google could screw your feeds too.
Reply to this commentI wonder, if somebody evil be a fren of Google, then he/she can screw anybody’s feed or something. Or Google it self screw
Reply to this commentGratz man; 7000 rss feeds is like a dream for me man, like its for far out. Gratz again man!
Reply to this commentCongrats. 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.
Reply to this commentCongratulations! You will pass 10000 soon too
Reply to this commentGreat Job, mine is slowly increasing as well.
Reply to this commentNice John, keep up the great work. This blog is well worth more RSS readers too.
Reply to this commentMaybe end of this month will reach 9000 ++ Readers
Reply to this commenti feel like i had a little to do with this!
keep up the good work! 
Reply to this commentNice 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.
Reply to this commentCongratulations 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
Reply to this commentNice 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.
Reply to this commentCongrats!!
My blog just reach 1,000 subscriptions.
If you like, you can add my RSS too.
Reply to this commenthttp://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
Reply to this commentCongratulations John!!!
Reply to this commentGlad to be a part of it.
Reply to this commentJohn, 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.
Reply to this comment7000 is a nice number, I have a lot of work ahead of me, still on 15 readers. Not enough to display the counter yet.
Reply to this commentVery impressive we all can just hope we become as successful as you from the information you share with us! THANKS!
Reply to this commentCongrats on finally reaching 7,000 RSS subscribers, John! Now aim for 70,000!
Steve
Reply to this commentI have seen one blog which had more than 45,000+ RSS by feedburner!
Congratulation! You will slowly increase to that also!
Reply to this commentGreat Job, mine is slowly increasing as well.
Reply to this commentCongrats! I hope to be able to hit the same numbers you do with my RSS readers in the future
Reply to this commentI can’t get anyway nead your subscribers divided to 100 (70).
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Reply to this commentAnyway, 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.
Reply to this commentHey John
Well done on the 7000.
Reply to this commentJust 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!
Reply to this commentI want the signed copy of The 4-Hour Workweek!
Reply to this commentcongrats
Reply to this commentCongrats, how’s the 4-hour work week?
Reply to this commentCongrats John. Hmmm…I am estimating your readers count will cross 25K before the end of this year.
Reply to this commentThis is my reply…mostly just for the book! Congrats, though!
Reply to this commentUgh. More Chow-ites.
Jason
Reply to this commentNot 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…
Reply to this commentBook me plenty!
Reply to this commentThat’s just awesome John, congrats.
Reply to this commentI would really like to win this, maybe 3 times is the charm?
Reply to this commentFourth entry!
Reply to this commentI’m one of them!
Reply to this commentWhen 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.
Reply to this commentYou’re on your way to 8,000 - it says 7,381 now! Wow! Congratulations!
Reply to this commentHow many copies of this book do you *have*, John?
BTW congratulations on 7000.
Reply to this commentDisclosure: This comment is for the sole purpose of the 4 hr w w book entry..
Vijay
Reply to this commentWoo.
Reply to this commentso amazing.
Reply to this commentyou are enavied.
Congrats John
Reply to this comment4-hour work week entry.
How many hours do you work a week, John?
Reply to this commentI certainly work more than 4 hours a week — the book sounds interesting.
Reply to this commentI’m proud to be one of your RSS subscribers too.
Reply to this commentLooks like i must subscribe to John too
Reply to this commentReplying via RSS…congrats!
Reply to this commentWay to go
This is my second entry for your book giveaway
Reply to this commentrss is the best. thx for more opportunities on the book also.
Reply to this commentCount me as one of your RSS readers and enter me in for the book drawing. Thanks.
Reply to this commentYes that Google Reader RSS makes for a great way to get another entry for the book! Thanks….
Reply to this commentCongrats John, my blog just one more person to reach 10 thousands oopsss!! Just 10 huhu
Anyone know any top commentator plugin for Blogger please??
Reply to this commentReally impressive growth numbers. Looks like you’re already very close to 7.5k today.
Reply to this commenthas anyone ever told you that you look a lot like the son off Sopranos, Anthony Jr.?
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Off topic 
Reply to this commentcongrats! 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.
Reply to this commentWell 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)
Reply to this commentI want the book!
Reply to this commentAnd now it is 7381, wow, what so fat gaining!!!! How did you do dat actually sifu??
Reply to this commentActually it is fast not fat , sorry
Reply to this commentJust 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.
Reply to this commentNow that is a big number
In couple of months I guess the chicklet will run out of digits
Jeba
Reply to this commentIt will then display in terms of K…once this crosses 10000, it will display as 10K.
Reply to this commentHeh, good tip about stealing other’s clicklets to increase your RSS subscribers. I might give it a try. Muahahahaha
Reply to this commentHey John …this is my second entry for the 4 hour work week contest.
Reply to this commentjust giveaway a book and reach more than 7k subscribers. Nice. I’ll think about it…
Reply to this commentwow nice stats. I barely get over 10 readers these days. ugh… Once you get big you don’t go back I guess.
Reply to this commentIt looks like you will have 20 000 by end of the year.
Reply to this commentCan 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!
Reply to this comment-400 down in the 6 thousands now
Reply to this commentKeep it up! Congratulations!
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