Have you noticed a slight increase of your blog’s subscriber number via Feedburner chicklet recently? The possible reason is Google Reader is now reporting subsriber number unlike before. Here’s the report that I got from their site.
Publishers have been asking us to report the number of users that are subscribed to their feeds in Google Reader. This is something we’ve been wanting to do for a while, but with all the products that use feeds at Google, corralling the data in one place was like herding cats. So herd we did, and as of today, our crawler reports the number of Google users subscribed to the feed. The count includes subscribers from Google Reader and the Google Personalized Homepage, and in the future may include other Google products that support feeds.
This blog is quite new so it does not feel much effect. However, in long term I feel that this is a good move by Google for both new and senior blogger since we will get a clearer view on our subsribers.
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