Increase RSS Count by Monitoring Inactive & Unverified Users
Have you observed that TechZoomIn RSS count is ZERO now? How is this possible? Of course people say its natural and known problem with Feedburner. Even I can’t find how and why it’s behaving like that, but I’m seeing ZERO from last 2 days. It really sucks when I see 0 instead of 336.
It’s nothing to Do today, but still we can improve the count by monitoring your Subscribers list at least twice in a month. Is this useful? From my experience I can say YES. It’s not only my opinion even from high profile bloggers too. Today I opened my Feedburner and found around 30 are in inactive and Unverified state. So if I succeed in recovering them, my count will move to 360+ which will be great to add 30 counts just by spending some time on monitoring.
What actually Inactive is and How to Re-activate: If Feedburner fails in delivering feeds to particular mail id 5 times successively then it will move to Inactive mode. And this will not be shown in your RSS count. To get the subscriber back you need to Re-activate the mail id by clicking Re-activate icon (Refresh icon symbol).
What actually Unverified is and How to Recover: If someone subscribed and failed to click the link in verify mail. In such situations Feedburner will show that mail id status as Unverified. This may be spam mail ids some times. Anyway we need to spend some time to recover them.
Here is the only way to recover them: Send a polite notification mail to the subscriber reminding him/her about the subscription request they made. But before to that you need to cross check the following things.
- Check the subscribed date and mention in mail
- Cross check the mail id format (I mean it contains spam chars or real names)
Finally, it’s worth to monitor Feedburner at least twice in a month regardless of how big is your RSS count or How busy you’re.
So, how often you do this? And how much you increased? Share with us! Happy Blogging!
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0 insted of 336 sucks for sure.Hope you will get back your count soon.Better to contact feedburner team asking resolution.
Thats Very bad. But don’t worry you will get them back.
Thats quite natural these days.But becoming 0 is first time i heard. Look for some solution or remove RSS chicklet for some time.
@Stestuff,
I got 91 back now.Lets see how it goes in next few days.
@Mathu,
Thanks for comments yar.
@Ezyblogger,
Thats great idea temporarily. I too got the idea to remove that for some time..but lets see for some time because i got 91 count today.
It’s showing 91 as of now. Good idea on the verification. I haven’t really gotten down to doing that to date!
@Ajay,
Spend some time on it..I’m sure you can get good amount of readers back into count.
Hai Lax
its the reason feedburner accounts and feeds moved into Google accounts,feedburner is merged with Google you have to move your feeds from feedbuner to Google account
check this article for more details
http://computersservicing.blogspot.com/2009/02/feedburner-merged-into-google.html
@Venkat,
Yes venkat i know about the movement to Google accounts.But are they fixed this problem there?
I’m planning to move in couple of days time.
Nice post. I checked mine today and there was about 25 Unverified ones. I hope they will get back and click the links.
@Avish,
Great that you tried to retrieve 25 ids. Hope you will get at least 50% of that back.
I found 4 Unverified http://www.techzoomin.com/simple-firefox-plugin-to-get-back-all-your-unverified-subscribers-into-feedburner-count/“>Subscribers,
@Steve,
Great that you found 4 back..Hope they will come back into action very soon.
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Dies ist ein gro?er Ort. Ich m?chte hier noch einmal.
@Fahrrad,
Thanks for your words man. I translated you Comment to english, as most of don’t know German
”
This is a great place it is. I m? Chte here again.”
I tried to send an email to my Unverified http://www.techzoomin.com/simple-firefox-plugin-to-get-back-all-your-unverified-subscribers-into-feedburner-count/“>Subscribers through gmail.
As I Do this, gmail experienced some difficulties or whatever Reasons behind why they can’t send email at once.
So I tried to use yahoo mail and it works smoothly. I hope that my unverified subscribers read my notification emails.
But most of the time, I use gmail on emailing one person.
you’re doing great man..now your count almost reach 600..mine? vey bad to say..not reach 100 subscriber yet
I was searching why feedburner shows Inactive users. My blog has 6640 http://www.techzoomin.com/simple-firefox-plugin-to-get-back-all-your-unverified-subscribers-into-feedburner-count/“>Subscribers but only 4080 of them are active. When I checked my blog subscribers, I have found many of them Unverified, unfortunately lot of them misspelled their email IDs (like Yaho.com etc). I gonna work on it. Thanks.