{"id":923,"date":"2008-05-28T09:08:01","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T16:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/feedburner-feedcount-be-patient\/"},"modified":"2011-06-22T15:35:27","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T22:35:27","slug":"feedburner-feedcount-be-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/feedburner-feedcount-be-patient\/","title":{"rendered":"Feedburner FeedCount: Be Patient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/images\/aweber-feedburner-0-subs.gif\"  hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" style=\"float: left\"\/>The first time I installed Feedburner's <strong>FeedCount*<\/strong> on this blog (after integrating the Feedburner feed with <a href=\"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/aweber\" onMouseOut=\"window.status=''; return true\" onMouseOver=\"window.status='';  return true\" target=\"new\">Aweber<\/a>) I uninstalled it almost immediately after seeing that it showed only a few hundred subscribers. <\/p>\n<p>Ugh! <\/p>\n<p>How embarrassing! <\/p>\n<p><em>Especially<\/em> considering that there are places on the site where I tout the fact that NPT has tens of thousands of readers.<\/p>\n<p>I mentioned this &#8216;problem' to Anik Singal (my partner in <a href=\"http:\/\/affiliatebloggerpro.com\/\">BlogClassroom<\/a>) and he simply told me to &#8220;<em>give it a day to resolve<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>So, although the FeedCount chiclet showed ZERO subscribers when I installed it at <a href=\"http:\/\/sage-hearts.com\">Sage-Hearts<\/a> (see screen capture above left), I was a little more patient and left it alone until the next day.<\/p>\n<p>Sure enough, when I checked it the next morning, FeedCount was showing <strong>100K subscribers<\/strong> (see graphic below).<\/p>\n<p>Woohoo!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/images\/aweber-feedburner-100k-subs.gif\"  hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\"\/>*FeedCount is a dynamic graphic that displays your feed's current circulation, as calculated by FeedBurner. 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