Google Launches AdSense for Feeds- Breaks My Subscriber Count

At least they only halved yours. Mine are gone completely and no one is replying to my message on the “help” board.

Oh no … this is not good. I wonder if anyone else has experienced this. I for one will not put AdSense on my feeds. I think that many people will be annoyed with them.

You must be getting slammed with traffic. Took forever for your blog to load.

Charles Heflin
Twitter @CharlesHeflin

At least they only halved yours. Mine are gone completely and no one is replying to my message on the “help” board.

Wow….they really did it this time! Messing with people’s subscribers! And it’s happening to more than one person yikes!
Google and its spam always messing something up! I think that just like adsense, its just tacky and annoying! I agree with Charles on the the slow site loading! You must be swamped!

Wow….they really did it this time! Messing with people’s subscribers! And it’s happening to more than one person yikes!
Google and its spam always messing something up! I think that just like adsense, its just tacky and annoying! I agree with Charles on the the slow site loading! You must be swamped!

Could it be – and this is just speculation, Chris – that with the new system stricter rules for what actually constitutes a subscriber were implemented (or somehow the tracking changed), lowering the numbers?

I lost 20% of my subscribers overnight, boo!

I lost 20% of my subscribers overnight, boo!

Normally I try to add to the original thought when I comment, but in this case, well, Dude, that sucks.

Nothing like fixing things that are not broken, and breaking them in the process.

Hope that is just a glitch with the switch. (rhyme unintentional)

Noe I am going to check my stats.

At one point yesterday my subscriber count went to zero, and although I now show subscribers again, I lost quite a few. I do NOT have ads on my feed at this time, so I wonder what happened. My post from this morning never turned into a feed either…

We lost an even greater percentage on the HubSpot blog. We were over 4000, and today it is showing at under 2500. Supposedly it is not counting all the people subscribed by Google Reader, which is a big number.

Feedburner is not a business class service, like many free/web2.0 apps (as we recently learned with a multi-hour Gmail outage) and we all know about Twitter…

We lost an even greater percentage on the HubSpot blog. We were over 4000, and today it is showing at under 2500. Supposedly it is not counting all the people subscribed by Google Reader, which is a big number.

Feedburner is not a business class service, like many free/web2.0 apps (as we recently learned with a multi-hour Gmail outage) and we all know about Twitter…

I lost close to half my subscribers overnight!

crap.

I also don’t have ads on my feeds, but lost about 33% in a growing-traffic and stumble-full week.

I started to worry that I did or said something recently that made a bunch of people annoyed or offended. Or that a recent post I’ve been editing and re-editing was showing up over and over in other peoples feeds. (But I’m subscribed to my own feed and didn’t see it, so figured that that was paranoia)

Thank you for mentioning it. It’s like a global Google Gaslight treatment!

I also don’t have ads on my feeds, but lost about 33% in a growing-traffic and stumble-full week.

I started to worry that I did or said something recently that made a bunch of people annoyed or offended. Or that a recent post I’ve been editing and re-editing was showing up over and over in other peoples feeds. (But I’m subscribed to my own feed and didn’t see it, so figured that that was paranoia)

Thank you for mentioning it. It’s like a global Google Gaslight treatment!

I lost 1/3 of my subscribers as well — lost a good 100! not cool =(

Shoot! Me too! I lost about a third (31%) of my subscribers. I wonder if it was a separate update and the numbers are more accurate…or just a huge fail.

Thanks for aggregating some of our experiences here, hopefully we can get an explanation soon.

Shoot! Me too! I lost about a third (31%) of my subscribers. I wonder if it was a separate update and the numbers are more accurate…or just a huge fail.

Thanks for aggregating some of our experiences here, hopefully we can get an explanation soon.

We had a couple of clients call who noticed this and weren’t amused, we lost a few off feedburner as well…one can only hope a glitch?

I lost most of my subscribers too. Sigh.

I lost most of my subscribers too. Sigh.

This is too frustrating … while my subscriber list is quite small in comparison to most here – I still would like to keep them! Bottom line, I lost everyone Monday morning, got them back Monday evening and now lost half of them again today. Now sitting here wondering … can I trust the data I see on Feedburner at any given point? What’s real? What can I count on?

Yep .. we lost some too. About 35% on onedegree.ca; almost 50% on mynameiskate.ca And we’re not using the feedburner ads.

I think Google must be having a major shift in a lot of areas. A few sites I have that had been getting page 1 keyword ranks and PR’s of 5 or 6 have been kicked out of Google or dropped to about page 10 of ranks plus now have PR’s of 0.

Is it the Apocalypse? Is the world shifting? Haven’t even bothered to check Technorati – am just starting my Friday happy hour much much earlier.

Yep .. we lost some too. About 35% on onedegree.ca; almost 50% on mynameiskate.ca And we’re not using the feedburner ads.

I think Google must be having a major shift in a lot of areas. A few sites I have that had been getting page 1 keyword ranks and PR’s of 5 or 6 have been kicked out of Google or dropped to about page 10 of ranks plus now have PR’s of 0.

Is it the Apocalypse? Is the world shifting? Haven’t even bothered to check Technorati – am just starting my Friday happy hour much much earlier.

One of my feeds went from 12795 to 217.