Some bloggers keep their Feedburner feed counter (chiklet) hidden until they reach a comfortable figure. The reason – simply because the small figures discourage people from subscribing to the blog. Well, it’s not all true but it does affects a little. So if you are dead curious about one blog’s feed count but the owner aint putting a Feedburner chiklet, there’s still way to find out. Here’s how.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/feedID
Copy paste the following to your browser, replace ‘feedID‘ with any blog’s feedburner ID, hit enter and you’ll be return a the amount of readership in a chiklet. It’s really that simple to find out.
How to Hide Feedburner feed count
The reason why the above URL is able to trace your feed count is because you left the option open. To close and prevent people from knowing how many subscribers you currently have, go to Publicize tab, click FeedCount and disable this service.
Hat tip from Ganesh
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Posted by hongkiat in Web Tricks , at 05.22.08
Tags: chiklet, feedburner, hack |
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Comments
Steve Yu May 22nd, 2008
Thanks god I never activate the feed count, so no one knows the actual number. Paiseh to reveal.
ReplyJennyHow May 22nd, 2008
oh man, that’s evil…
ReplyRice Blogger May 22nd, 2008
thanks for the heads up…nice trick
Replyamber August 22nd, 2009
A very nice article ,did not knew that feeds count can be deactivated.
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