FeedBurner OPML Exploit Fixed
5 Aug
Did you hear about the OPML exploit on Feedburner that allows you to get a lot of subscribers? Sounds interesting, doesn’t it? Wondering how this works? Well you make an OPML file with your RSS feed’s link pasted a couple of thousand times and then export it to Netvibes.
FeedBurner used to count each one of the thousand lines as a new subscriber. And that’s how you could jump up to a few thousand subscribers within 24 hours. Not a very honest thing to do though. I wouldn’t put up a fake feed count because I’m serious about what I do and I respect my visitors/readers. Oh and here’s the post from the guys who found the exploit.
So, you wanna try this exploit? Well too bad. The exploit has been fixed. I tried it myself yesterday and it doesn’t work anymore (I did this to check if it has been fixed or not). The thing that is pretty amazing is that FeedBurner fixed it within a few hours. Now that’s fast. But, they should have made some kind of official statement saying that its been fixed. I guess this small exploit wasn’t very important for them.
Keep in mind that there are still many ways to fake the feed count. So, don’t count it as a blog’s success or failure. Try not to judge the blogger based upon that number. The more important thing is the quality of content.
yeah i so it on another post… but y is it important for ppl to get subscribers… i dont get it…
The more the subscribers the more popular your blog is. At least that’s what most of your visitors and bloggers would think.
hmmm i guess im struggling cuz im not a real blogger… i blog just to share what i feel.. didnt even no u can make $$$… lol ^.^
What do you mean you’re not a “real” blogger? If you blog then you’re a blogger. You don’t have to make money while blogging to become a “real” blogger.
lol… what i meant u guys write like kind of professional n neat n structured n im like more what we do on plurk kind of quick posts n stuff just sharing what i feel in a moment n a few times i wrote kind of longer replies… but ok thx for accepting me into real bloggers club ^.^