Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

I’m trying to make sense of my Feedburner numbers

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I commented back in January that I was confused about what was happening with Feedburner. I’m not sure that I have any greater clarity now than I did before. Here are two looks at my subscriber numbers. The first chart starts on August 11, 2006, which is the first day I started blogging. The second chart starts on January 28, 2010, which is the first day of the spike in my Feedburner statistics.

If anyone can make sense of these trends, particularly the waviness of the second chart, I’d love to hear your thoughts. What are you seeing with your own blogs?

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