Spy On Any Feedburner Feed
Written by alex on February 26th, 2010Recently Garry Conn has written a funny review about a blog of a guy who wanted to be mentioned on Garry’s blog. Unfortunately (for that guy) Garry sposts people who want to fake their own readership from a distance of a mile. That blog had a faked Feedburner counter, that means that the number on the counter, which shows how many people is subscribed to the feed via Feedburner, isn’t pulling his value from the Feedburner server but it’s a static image. An alternative way to fake the counter is to crack the code of the chiklet and to pull the number of the counter of an other feed (which has far more readers of yours).
There is a simple and cool online tool which lets you immediately check how many Feedburner subscribers a feed has. The tool is called Feed Compare and all you have to do is to type into the form the FeedBurner feed name (e.g. successfull-blogging or full FeedBurner Feed URL, e.g. http://feeds.feedburner.com/successfull-blogging) not the url of the blog.
This tool is also interesting in the case you want to compare the trends of the feedsubcriptions of up to 4 feeds.
This is the result of the comparison of the feedsubscriptions in the last 12 months of Problogger (red), John Chow (blu) and Shoemoney (green).
Hey, since march John Chow has left behind Shoemoney !