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Do you want more RSS subscribers? I am sure you do and are always looking for great ways to increase your subscription numbers. Neil Patel is a guest bloger this week for Shoemoney and has written a post How To Get More RSS Subscribers Through Feedburner. He goes over some of the basic methods in the post and then as a bonus tip through somewhat of a curveball. Here is the bonus tip that Neil mentioned.

I know some of the above stuff was a bit basic so here’s a bonus tip: If you want to increase your RSS subscribers I would find all the top bloggers that aren’t using FeedBurner and register their FeedBurner URL under your account. Once you setup the feed with their content you’ll notice that after a while it will start gaining subscribers and usually after it gets to roughly 100 or so you can email FeedBurner and request them to redirect the subscribers to your blog feed. Granted, the content will be different but people are lazy and most won’t unsubscribe.

Now he is in no way saying to go out and do this, he simply just stated the facts as is to let people know it could be done. I’ll bet all the top blogs on technorati either already have a feedburner account or by now someone has created them. This advice would work though because there are people out there who will not see what has happened and continue to read your feeds. Thing is though, if you do not write good content or your content is not related really to what they thought they were subscribing to then you will lose that person. This comes with the territory of trying to essentially hijack subscribers from other blogs, your subscription rate will go up, but over time that number will go back down because those people will unsubscribe. Now if you have good content and are consistent then your subscription numbers would hopefully go up. Implementing this hijacking method would raise your numbers higher in a shorter amount of time, but as I said before I bet those hijacked subscribers will unsubscribe in due time. If you got enough hijacked subscribers this could still increase your earnings for your blog since it is more traffic.