If you have a blog and are using Feedburner to manage your email subscriptions, you might want to check to see if the number has dropped during starting mid November and continuing through December. You just might be find that your subscriber count has dropped to zero! I’ve experienced this myself and had two clients report this problem. See the charts below that show my own subscriptions bouncing around:

This first chart shows my “all time” email subscriptions. You can clearly see that in the month of November and continuing into December, some very strange things are happening.

This second chart shows the last 30 days. The T in the last bar is Tuesday, December 9, 2008.

I’ve checked with two other clients and the pattern is the same. My subscriptions mysteriously dropped in half and bounced back and forth. Another client’s dropped between zero and 60. Yet another clients bounced between 100 and 20. But the time frame and pattern is the same.

The problem is, that if you publish a new post on your blog when the bouncing is at a low point, say 0 subscribers - no one gets sent an email. If you are lucky and publish on an up day, everyone gets emails.

One of my clients looked around in the Feedburner forums, and did find lots of folks complaining about this, but no solutions.

Here’s a link to the Feedburner Help Group - Known Issues and Workarounds. (Note there seems to have been a similar issue in March 2008)

Are you also having this issue?

Have you found a way to fix it or a workaround?

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