As you know, Feed Analysis provides bloggers, with the aid of beautiful interactive charts, a more detailed report and analysis from our feeds. You can also view the number of subscribers, hits, views and clicks for every single day from the line chart.

By using Feed Analysis, we can discover some evil bloggers who faked their RSS numbers. How do we find the evil bloggers? If the hits stayed the same but the number of subscribers have increased sharply, they probably are faking their RSS number (See the picture below). It is because normally, if you have more subscribers, you will have more hits as well, because readers will actually click on the feed items you published. Affiliate Lounge has written a very nice and detailed explanation about someone who faked his RSS Number on “Feedburner Hacked or just plain Cheating!?“.

How can they fake their RSS number? They probably bought some readers directly or subscribe to his own feed with a lot of different email addresses. Wayne Liew has told us the ways to boost the number of RSS subscribers on “No More RSS Feed Numbers Hide and Seek” and told us how to use Feed Analysis to analyze our feed nicely as well.