If you use any of the information in this blog post on a real blog with the intent to deceive readers or potential buyers, you’re an evil scumbag and should burn in hell. That said, it’s still fun for me to tell you how to do it.

I probably know what you’re thinking right now… everyone already knows that you can increase your Feedburner subscriber count by using fake e-mail addresses that auto-forward to one account. By my estimate, that trick can add, at best, around 100 to 150 subscribers per hour, maybe a little more if you could automate the form completion and all that.

This is much more effective. My trick can add 50 to 100 subscribers per minute. All it takes is one Google account and a pen cap. No fancy automation and sore fingers required. One of the few things I love more than playing computer games is cheating at them. It’s an addiction. When someone figures out how to cheat at a game I play, I usually feel compelled to top it. When I saw the douchebag at RSS Xplosion actually charging people $1 per fake subscriber just to use the fake e-mail address trick, I knew I could do better than that. Unlike that twit, however, I won’t act like a jackass on the John Cow comments.

So how can you go from to in less than ten minutes?

I’ve been holding onto this information for several weeks, trying to decide whether I should make it public or not. In the end, my ego won. Public it is.

Step by Step

1. You need a blog and a Feedburner account. Because of the dastardly nature of what you’re about to do, I wouldn’t recommend using an account that you care about. Copy the address of the feed.

2. You need a disposable Google account.

3. Visit iGoogle, the personalized home page service offered by Google. Sign up for a personalized home page with your new Google account.

4. From the personalized home page, click “Add Stuff” on the right side of your tab bar.

5. Click “Add feed or gadget” on the left sidebar.

6. Paste the address of your feed into the popup box.

7. Hit ENTER.

8. Notice that the popup box doesn’t close down?

9. Hit ENTER again. And again. And again.

10. Jam a pen cap into your keyboard to hold down the ENTER key.

11. Walk away.

12. When you come back, you will have added anywhere from fifty to one hundred subscribers per minute that you were away.

13. Look at your Google personalized page, and you will see something like this:

14. Wait five to seven days. I don’t know why, but during my testing, I’ve found that the subscriber count takes five days to register your new subscribers. What you should see in Feedburner is something like the image at the top of the page.

15. Delete your blog. Delete your Feedburner account. Delete your iGoogle account, and forget steps 1 through 14. If you use this on a real blog, you’re going to look like a complete idiot when Google fixes this bug and you lose all your fake subscribers overnight.

I’m not one to make resolutions, those generally useless promises to oneself that one will make certain changes in a new year. But I do like to set goals for myself. These are some of my goals for 2008:

1. Generate $100 per day in mostly passive income. I wrote last year that my family could get by on about $66 per day, but that gives us no cushion, no room for emergencies, no ability to save, and no extra spending for luxuries. $100 per day brings us to a more comfortable position It’s still not enough for everything we want, but $100 per day fills our needs and wouldn’t be scary as hell. I’m still not sure I’d quit my day job if that’s all I was making, but it would be very realistic if I chose to do so.

2. Reach 1000 RSS subscribers. In the first 3.5 months this blog was online, I went from 0 to 70′ish subscribers, and in the nearly two months I didn’t post a single new entry, that increased to over 110. If I maintain the business-building focus of my featured articles, and post more consistently I don’t foresee this being a problem.

3. Complete the framework for my collection of Build a Niche Store sites. This includes a new blog about BANS and eBay marketing, separate from this blog. That blog will focus very tightly on using the software to build niche stores, development of themes for BANS, and building an eBay-based business. I’ve done a lot of work with BANS recently, but selling stuff on eBay is still new to me, so there will be a lot of learning involved here.

4. Comment on more blogs. I read a lot of blogs, but rarely comment. Usually just because I don’t want to spend time typing, even when I think I have something worth saying. That should come to an end.

5. Continue to spend lots of quality time with my girls and my wife. Life’s not just about making money online, ya know?