How to Hide Your Feedburner Feed Count

Want to hide your low RSS feed subscriber numbers? Many bloggers choose not to display the feedburner feed counts chicklet on their blogs to hide their low number of RSS subscribers. However, it is very easy to find the number of subscribers by loading the image url with the substituted blog name.

E.g. our default image location is
https://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/QuickOnlineTips
which generates this

Feedburner FeedCount is a dynamic graphic that displays your feed’s current circulation. But feedburner gives you the flexibility to block the public access to your feed count statistics. This lesser used feature is accessible from Feedburner manager after your login to your feedburner account –

Publicize tab -> Feed Count -> Deactivate.

Its as simple as that. Now no one can access you actual feed counts.

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About the Author: P Chandra is editor of QOT, one of India's earliest tech bloggers since 2004. A tech enthusiast with expertise in coding, WordPress, web tools, SEO and DIY hacks.