How to nail someone faking the Feedburner count
Hi,
You might have come across some blogs with some not so good content but still have a huge number of RSS readers. Mostly, it might be a fake chicklet they might have downloaded.
There is a quick way to check it.
If the Feedburner name is douchebagblogger (say)
then just type this on the address field:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/douchebagblogger
thats a ~ followed by a fc.
Go find those nut jobs with fake reader counts, and make them pay. So much for blogging ethics!
Enjoy!
Reason: topic heading
Sorry Guys,
Thats a typo from my side.
Its Feeds and not Feed.
Sorry for the confusion!
Thanks Vineet!
Simple URL based test.
Cool!
Wow - that's an interesting new trick. However for my blog it only works if I use
http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~fc/gitaaonline
(i.e the "feed" has to be changed to "feeds2") - Any idea why?
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/gitaaonline also works (only feed as mentioned in Vineet's message does not work for me)
My bad, edited the topic now
This ones great ethical hack to work with 
That is awesome! Good way to find out the actual numbers. Thanks for sharing it Vineet.
Here is mine - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/mohanbn :)
Yes, yes please flaunt your reader count. hehehe
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