How To Hide Feedburner Feed Count
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There are some bloggers who don’t want to show their Feedburner’s Feed Count to visitor. This may be due to their blogs still new and don’t have much subscribers. Normally these bloggers will simply replace the FeedCount widget with an a link to their Feedburner link.
Unfortunately, this method don’t really “hide” the feed count. Why i said so? It is because people can still view your feed count by using this url:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/feedID
Simply replace the feedID with the target Feedburner account ID and you will see the FeedCount widget appear in front of you.
So, how you hide this number before you have enough confident to show off your subscribers? Go to your Feedburner account page, and browse to the Publicize tab. After that, go to FeedCount and deactivate this service.
Tips: Bloggers are advised to hide their feed count before they get 300 subscribers.
Tags: Feedburner, rss, subscribe
DJYano
December 4th, 2008
It’s ok when i have little readers in my blog. But it will increase when people reading my blog. So there’s no need for me to hide my feed counts. Good tutorial though.
I don’t understand this. “Tips: Bloggers are advised to hide their feed count before they get 300 subscribers.”
Why is it so?
Regards.
dicky
December 8th, 2008
@DJYano -
It is because people may don’t want to subscribe to your feed if your readers are too few.
SEO Tools
December 15th, 2008
You can always hide your feed count bu not using the counter.. there are a lot of rss images that we can use.. It’s like a forum… the people don’t want to join if the membership is low..
dicky
December 16th, 2008
@SEO Tools -
Yup, you can use image to replace your Feed count, but you still need to disable the feature through Feedburner so that people won’t get your feed count through this method “http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/feedID”.