I go to a lot of websites on a daily basis and many times see the RSS subscriber count. This can be an extremely beneficial thing because it shows newcomers to your site just how many other people think you are pretty good at what you do. Having a high subscriber number automatically give the site a degree of credibility.

However… For most sites, the count is at somewhere between 0 and 10. Why are you advertising this? It doesn’t benefit you to openly say that no one reads your site on a regular basis. When I go to a site that has 3 subscribers, how much am I going to trust the site?

Don’t get me wrong, this site is still new and I only have right now but there is no way that I am going to permanently put that on my homepage until I have at least 50. Until I have about 50, I believe that putting the count on this site would do way more harm than good.