Yesterday I got Dugg up to the Digg front page, and now my FeedBurner shows 563 readers. What would you do in this situation? I was thinking of promoting an affiliate program.
Not to get you down, but by tomorrow it will be back to under 100 or so. The FeedBurner site counts some browsers as feed reader. For example, many Firefox users will be counted as a subscriber, even if they just view your site. I was SO excited back in December when my site (in sig) got Dugg for the first time. My subscribers when from ~200 to 2400. By the next week it was back to around 300. So I did gain some, but I don't think has reached the 2400 mark again yet (in March it was ~1,200). Also, I wouldn't suggest anyone monetize their feed unless it's MUCH higher than 500. It annoys some readers and typically doesn't have a very good return.
I have been looking at that Feed Monetization stuff, and I don't see the return on it. It seems like a great little piece of Tech, but ultimately, I don't want to annoy people, I want them come over for a visit. Curious if anyone sees any real money from feed monetization?
I personally think feed monitization starts when u have 1000 and above subscribers, like many said yr subscriber count rose because of the digg effect, so wait for a while and see what happens to your feed count in the next few days.
Remember to put up some awesome content in the next few days so you'll retain as many readers as you ..
I jumped the Imus bandwagon last week and rehashed an article about Rap Music on Digg, and then doubled up with an article about "Naked Night Clubbing" in London. Hit it both ways, political, and a cheap sex article. It got an extra 700 for the day, it had residual traffic for about 4 days, but it does die down.
yeah, congrats i was also wondering how people do that... i submited few articles to digg myself, but no one them went to front page...