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SpikeTheLobster (803) ranked 35 out of 396 in blogger

1 year ago

This'll amuse all you new bloggers. I've just started redirecting all my RSS feeds through FeedBurner to simplify matters and get some nice, free stats. I set it all up yesterday, when my new domain went active and all that stuff.

Today, I dropped in and saw "Subscribers: 1" on all my feeds. Of course, since it's all pretty new, I was excited! Someone subscribed! Someone read my nonsense and liked it enough to join up!

So I go off to the Analysis page... and it's a bot. Some metadata company's web spider thingy.

Bah, humbug! (lol!)

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JanMags (509) ranked 287 out of 396 in blogger

1 year ago

tell me about it. i get so many of these bots and they are so irritating. i wish they could all just vanish. aside from getting robot subscribers i also get lots of robot comment posters and these are even more irritating

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akangirl (694) ranked 285 out of 396 in blogger

1 year ago

That's bad. I have 3 subscriber of my blog. all are my friend are of my lot and comments are also real no robot. How does this robot commenting works?

SpikeTheLobster (803) ranked 35 out of 396 in blogger	1 year ago
Thankfully mine's just a content bot - it scans and goes away. Comment bots just mass-post HTML tags into your comments, advertising viagra and other such crap.

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cassandralynn (874) ranked 156 out of 396 in blogger

1 year ago

Hi Spike,
I reacted the same way when I added FeedBurner to my blog then I noticed within 24 hrs that I had 2 subscribers and then I found out it was some bots as well..LOL.. Then after my page picked up I started to get real actually humans subscribers. I noticed that real people like to subscribe with the email option more then RSS feeder.I know for myself I subscribe to blogs with the email option more because I never have time to visit my google RSS reader.. I wish you many real subscribers in the near future! happy

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