Cheat your way through FeedBurner

15 January 2008

One common mistakes bloggers make while arranging their blog layout is to place the the FeedBurner chicklet when there are only 3 suscribers. It does not reflect well on your blog, or rather it will make a poor impression of your site. Remember 3 readers is no big deal.

wont it be great if your FeedBurner chicklet reads "14693 readers" instead of "3 readers?"

well maybe you can cheat your way through. How?

Simple! All you need to do is to simply copy the FeedBurner chicklet with high reader number from some other sites using screen capture software or simply press the "print screen" button on the keyboard. Save it as an image and upload to image hosting sites such as PhotoBucket.

Now you will need to wrap your RSS Feed link around that image to make it look like a real FeedBurner Chicklet.

How to wrap a link around an image?

here is the HTML code:

p a href="YourRssFeedUrl eg. http://feeds.feedburner.com/YOU"

img src=" Your Image Direct Link" width="88" height="26"

Remember to add <> around the letter 'p' and <> around "a href...YOU" like wise.. add < and /> before and after "img src... height="26" " so as to make the HTML code work.

As new visitors sees that your site has high readership there will be an increase chance for them to sign up too. This can help you to boost your RSS feed suscribers.

However i will see this method as unethical and it will be advisable not to boost your numbers too much. Once someone finds out that you are cheating, credibility of your site will plummet.


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2 comments:

Riyas said...

Interesting Best Wishes

Brate said...

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