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Re: Google Launches AdSense for Feeds- Breaks My Subscriber Count

youtube downloader — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 04:05:55 -0000

I started to worry that I did or said something recently that made a bunch of people annoyed or offended. Or that a recent post I've been editing and re-editing was showing up over and over in other peoples feeds. (But I'm subscribed to my own feed and didn't see it, so figured that that was paranoia)

Re: Google Launches AdSense for Feeds- Breaks My Subscriber Count

Bill Adsense — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:38:27 -0000

Waiting for that thing since started worket with Adsense.

Re: Google Launches AdSense for Feeds- Breaks My Subscriber Count

cari duit — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:37:40 -0000

Good stuff adsense for feeds.

Re: Google Launches AdSense for Feeds- Breaks My Subscriber Count

chrisbrogan — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:46:28 -0000

So FeedBurner is still busted (or I'm still down about 2500 subs, or they changed something).

Technorati is still busted (or I dropped 900 points).

AdAge 150 dropped me down to 63 (probably based on Technorati).

If this were a numbers game, and sometimes it is, this would bug me.

What it does instead is incent me to do things from other measures.

Re: Google Launches AdSense for Feeds- Breaks My Subscriber Count

Charles Heflin — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:07:51 -0000

We did not implement AdSense on our feeds. Hate 'em.

I checked our subscriber counts this morning on 5 blogs ... all show ZERO subscribers ... we lost em all.

This has to be a glitch because though we show zero subscribers I still receive our feeds and so does a few other people that I spot checked with.

Charles Heflin
Twitter @CharlesHeflin

Re: Google Launches AdSense for Feeds- Breaks My Subscriber Count

myCutegalaxy — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:08:52 -0000

What about RSS feed on ordinary websites? is it just for blogs? I'm saying for mycutegalaxy! A social networking, if it can be implemented on user profiles?

Re: Google Launches AdSense for Feeds- Breaks My Subscriber Count

Laura Christianson — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:28:28 -0000

I have been fed up with Technorati for years; seems like it's more hassle than it's worth to use it. So why do I keep using it in the vague hope that everything will magically get fixed? I wish there was a one-size-fits-all system that actually works consistently. -Laura, co-founder HeBlogsSheBlogs.com

Re: Google Launches AdSense for Feeds- Breaks My Subscriber Count

Ontario Emperor — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:11:56 -0000

Didn't FeedBurner just make a change that reduced feed amounts? I saw the announcement in passing, but ignored it because I don't use FeedBurner.

Re: Google Launches AdSense for Feeds- Breaks My Subscriber Count

Mike Maddaloni - The Hot Iron — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:11:23 -0000

I "lost" half of my subscribers as well, but unfortunately this has happened before, and they will probably be back tomorrow. Well, that's what I hope.

As for Feedburner being here in Chicago, from what I hear on the mean streets of the Windy City most all have either left the company or moved to the GooglePlex. Most of Google's office here in Chicago is sales.

mp/m

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Bill Austin — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:03:14 -0000

One of my feeds went from 12795 to 217.

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Kate Trgovac — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:00:04 -0000

Yep .. we lost some too. About 35% on onedegree.ca; almost 50% on mynameiskate.ca And we're not using the feedburner ads.

I think Google must be having a major shift in a lot of areas. A few sites I have that had been getting page 1 keyword ranks and PR's of 5 or 6 have been kicked out of Google or dropped to about page 10 of ranks plus now have PR's of 0.

Is it the Apocalypse? Is the world shifting? Haven't even bothered to check Technorati - am just starting my Friday happy hour much much earlier.

Re: Google Launches AdSense for Feeds- Breaks My Subscriber Count

coyenator — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:54:29 -0000

This is too frustrating ... while my subscriber list is quite small in comparison to most here - I still would like to keep them! Bottom line, I lost everyone Monday morning, got them back Monday evening and now lost half of them again today. Now sitting here wondering ... can I trust the data I see on Feedburner at any given point? What's real? What can I count on?

Re: Google Launches AdSense for Feeds- Breaks My Subscriber Count

Writer Dad — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:51:48 -0000

I lost most of my subscribers too. Sigh.

Re: Google Launches AdSense for Feeds- Breaks My Subscriber Count

Webconomist — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:40:10 -0000

We had a couple of clients call who noticed this and weren't amused, we lost a few off feedburner as well...one can only hope a glitch?

Re: Google Launches AdSense for Feeds- Breaks My Subscriber Count

Jared Goralnick — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:39:09 -0000

Shoot! Me too! I lost about a third (31%) of my subscribers. I wonder if it was a separate update and the numbers are more accurate...or just a huge fail.

Thanks for aggregating some of our experiences here, hopefully we can get an explanation soon.

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Adam Singer — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:34:41 -0000

I lost 1/3 of my subscribers as well -- lost a good 100! not cool =(

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Juggling Frogs — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:27:14 -0000

I also don't have ads on my feeds, but lost about 33% in a growing-traffic and stumble-full week.

Thank you for mentioning it. It's like a global Google Gaslight treatment!

Re: Google Launches AdSense for Feeds- Breaks My Subscriber Count

Cawlin — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:26:16 -0000

I lost close to half my subscribers overnight!

crap.

Re: Google Launches AdSense for Feeds- Breaks My Subscriber Count

Mike Volpe — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:24:21 -0000

We lost an even greater percentage on the HubSpot blog. We were over 4000, and today it is showing at under 2500. Supposedly it is not counting all the people subscribed by Google Reader, which is a big number.

Feedburner is not a business class service, like many free/web2.0 apps (as we recently learned with a multi-hour Gmail outage) and we all know about Twitter...

Re: Google Launches AdSense for Feeds- Breaks My Subscriber Count

Sharon Rosen — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:17:55 -0000

At one point yesterday my subscriber count went to zero, and although I now show subscribers again, I lost quite a few. I do NOT have ads on my feed at this time, so I wonder what happened. My post from this morning never turned into a feed either...

Re: Google Launches AdSense for Feeds- Breaks My Subscriber Count

EbanC — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:06:49 -0000

Normally I try to add to the original thought when I comment, but in this case, well, Dude, that sucks.

Nothing like fixing things that are not broken, and breaking them in the process.

Hope that is just a glitch with the switch. (rhyme unintentional)

Noe I am going to check my stats.

Re: Google Launches AdSense for Feeds- Breaks My Subscriber Count

daveevans — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:01:35 -0000

I lost 20% of my subscribers overnight, boo!

Re: Google Launches AdSense for Feeds- Breaks My Subscriber Count

Jeremiah Staes — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:59:01 -0000

Could it be - and this is just speculation, Chris - that with the new system stricter rules for what actually constitutes a subscriber were implemented (or somehow the tracking changed), lowering the numbers?

Re: Google Launches AdSense for Feeds- Breaks My Subscriber Count

Richard Kannegieser — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:58:32 -0000

Wow....they really did it this time! Messing with people's subscribers! And it's happening to more than one person yikes!
Google and its spam always messing something up! I think that just like adsense, its just tacky and annoying! I agree with Charles on the the slow site loading! You must be swamped!

Re: Google Launches AdSense for Feeds- Breaks My Subscriber Count

Charles Heflin — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:55:23 -0000

Oh no ... this is not good. I wonder if anyone else has experienced this. I for one will not put AdSense on my feeds. I think that many people will be annoyed with them.

You must be getting slammed with traffic. Took forever for your blog to load.

Charles Heflin
Twitter @CharlesHeflin