Comments on: Techcrunch RSS Subscriber Payola?

By: Bloglines - Why You Should Test Out The New Beta | Andy Beard - Niche Marketing

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:23:07 +0000

[...] most popular blogs also benefit from default RSS subscription packages for "technology" or "political" [...]

By: Google Reader | FeedBurner Stats Show Significant Market Share - Google Reader Now #1? | Andy Beard - Niche Marketing

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:02:15 +0000

[...] should also note that those numbers are not influenced at all by default subscription packages from many feed readers, which can have a dramatic effect on subscriber number balance and the total [...]

By: Fitness guy

Fitness guy — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:13:50 +0000

Probably of no consequense, but i wonder if one would see an alexa rank improvement from subscribing to as many feed services as possible.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:22:25 +0000

Holy shit! AOL has a feed thinger? I did not know this! Now to find the stupid thing. xD

By: Bucky

Bucky — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:51:09 +0000

Payola isn’t just for Radio and Television, it’s on the web also.

By: J.D.

J.D. — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:59:48 +0000

Wow, way to lay it on the line for a layperson to understand.

You just got a new subscriber.

I like your hacked plugins too.

By: Lucia

Lucia — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:10:11 +0000

I strongly suspect that nearly everyone who subscribes to the feed of my knitting blog actually reads the feed! :)

By: CVOS Netpaths

CVOS Netpaths — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:56:46 +0000

I tend to look at feed subscribers with skepticism. Techcrunch boasts almost 500k subscribers, but usually only has around 500 concurrent readers. This is a colossal discrepancy of 10^3.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:50:55 +0000

Thanks. It would be interesting to see what happens to the subscriber base when put into one of those little subscriber packs.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:40:37 +0000

Thanks for that Mike, updated with a link to you as well.