Feedburner Competition

July 12th, 2007 · by David Bradley >> 16 Comments

Significant Figures Subscribers Now that Google has acquired Feedburner and we can all use MyBrand for free, I would like to open up a little competition for Significant Figures readers who have their own blog running a Feedburner feed.

Here’s the deal. Look up your Feedburner subscriber number and leave a link to the counter image in the comments on this post together with a link to your blog. Next, head back to your own blog and start working on boosting your newsfeed subscribers. When you have doubled the figure you started with come back to this page and let me know. One proviso, you have to start with at least 20 subscribers, so no doubling your count by simply subscribing yourself twice from the initial one!

The prize: I will give you a free text link either on a post of your choice on this site, with your choice of keyword or else display your link on the PR5 homepage in the sidebar for three months. I’m counting on you (pardon the pun) for your support! Webmaster’s decision is final, spammy sites, offensive links, and illegal sites are excluded. Having a Feedburner feed is a prerequisite for entry as you need to demonstrate legitimate subscriber numbers, so burn that feed right now if you want to enter.

For some tips on boosting your subscriber count check out my recent how to boost your feed readers post

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16 responses so far ↓

robwatts // Jul 12, 2007 at 3:40 pm

Hey David, my count was 121 last time I looked, I’ll see if I can double it, but Im not that hopeful, Ive been trying to grow it from day one
David Bradley // Jul 12, 2007 at 5:09 pm

Rob, I think that’s the case for lots of sites. Sciencetext itself, as you can see, currently has a pitiful 68 subscribers, but it did reach 98 a couple of weeks ago and after the weekend is usually lower than that. We can all dream…
Robert Irizarry // Jul 13, 2007 at 6:13 pm

Doubling is a tall order especially for a niche blog like mine. What if you don’t have any takers double? Any chance you’ll accept the next closest thing?
David Bradley // Jul 13, 2007 at 7:33 pm

Yes, I guess doubling an already bigger blog is going to be tough…
Hari // Jul 15, 2007 at 8:22 am

Hi David,
My count is currently 27 and i will do my best to see if i can double it.

GotChance.com
Hsien Lei // Jul 16, 2007 at 4:49 pm

I would love to double mine which is at 210 today but it took me two years to get close to 500 at my old genetics blog. Is there any hope I could get to that by September?!
David Bradley // Jul 16, 2007 at 6:10 pm

Hsien, maybe you could take out an ad in the NYT…I’m sure that would get you a couple more subscribers.

I jest. I am sure that your great recent posts and stumblings are going to take you to great heights, you have after all doubled your subscriber base in just 2-3 months already…
Hsien Lei // Jul 16, 2007 at 6:46 pm

/me kicks David
Robert Irizarry // Jul 18, 2007 at 11:48 am

Alright, I’m in! I’m submitting my blog Building the Ergonomic Guitar. Here’s the counter image code (at posting time 116) –

Too bad you weren’t running this back when you included my blog in your Up and Coming Blogs post. Since then, thanks in no small part to your article’s encouragement, I’ve broken past the 100 subscriber mark. It’s still a niche subject writing about ergonomic guitar design and construction but both readership and traffic are significantly up in that short time period.

And, thanks for letting me participate!
David Bradley // Jul 18, 2007 at 2:35 pm

Good luck! Anyone else who wishes to add their Feedburner count button can do so by embedding the following code type in an img tag within their comment

<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/Significant-Figures” border=0>

Obviously, you should substitute your Feedburner feed name, for the Significant-Figures tag. Feel free to use color and animation codes.
David Szpunar // Jul 19, 2007 at 4:08 am

OK I’ll try, although I may fail. Can’t hurt, right? My FeedBurner count for Lakeview Information Technology is at 73 right now:

(due to a technical issue this will go way back up tomorrow, I hope; it was at least 60 or more for a while until feed redirection was turned off for debugging and yours truly didn’t re-enable it…details in my latest post).

I started this thing in March so I’m not complaining for under half a year!
zaki // Jul 19, 2007 at 4:55 pm

Thanks for inviting and challenging me positively. Currently I have 164 readers/subscribers. I know it’s not easy to increase the readers as my blog is quite technical (more towards chemical engineering stuff), but I’m trying to be slightly general in my posts. I’ll only post very technical issues once in a while. I really hope I can share my humble experiences as a chemical/process engineer with my readers.
David Bradley // Jul 19, 2007 at 6:05 pm

There’s a much more exciting competition running on http://ryanshamus.com/contests/guess-the-next-pagerank-update-and-win-google-gear/ where you can win Google gooooodies rather than just a text link, although I hope Sig Fig readers will find a text link almost as useful as a Google lava lamp or beach towel

db
valt // Aug 16, 2007 at 5:52 am

I hope competition is not yet over…
analogstuff // Jan 30, 2008 at 7:09 am

I have a feed count of around 287 right now.

analogstuff’s last blog post..Film and Direction
David Bradley // Jan 30, 2008 at 7:33 am

Well done, analogstuff, that’s pretty good!