Bots Behaving Badly and your RSS Stats

Bots Behaving Badly and your RSS Stats By Phil Hollows Seems that a rogue bot (it shows up in your RSS metrics as “experibot_v”) has been busy this weekend, and has artificially inflated RSS subscriber tallies. So panic (or rejoice, depending on your mindset) not: It’s not real eyeballs and we’re fixing everyone’s metrics to eliminate it from your results.  I’ll update this post as when this task has been completed.         Related Stories Monthly Mailing Metrics: Surprised? I Was Three Goals Every Blogger Must Have   • Email to a friend • Article Search • View comments • Track comments •   More Blitz Bits By FeedBlitz FeedBlitz: Rewind the Week – Golf Gadget Edition Three Fundamentals of Facebook Marketing Monthly Mailing Metrics: Surprised? I Was Facebook Outage Reminds of Platform Folly FeedBlitz: Rewind the Week   Get These Great e-Books from FeedBlitz

 

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