Boosting Your Blog Traffic, pt. 1: A Little Help From Britney
May 12, 2007 at 3:42 pm | In Blogging, Britney Spears, Tagging, Tags, Web 2.0 |Tags: Blog Traffic, Boost, Clicks, Hits, Increase, Page Impressions, traffic, Views
Last week I tried to boost my blog traffic by heeding Lenina’s advice that a bit of sleaze cannot harm anybody (actually, it can) but is good for the traffic. I blogged about Britney Spear’s latest publicity stunt. It was a rather bland post and didn’t even contain images or video (only links to images and videos), but the title was reminiscent of a Britney Spears title and also contained a reference to the last Hasselhof PR disaster. For further enhancement, I used rather salacious tags, such as ‘upskirt’, ‘boobies’, ‘nipples’ and ‘nude’.
Furthermore, I submitted the post to digg.com, which was probably a bit of a cheat because the only reasonable category was Video>People - as mentioned, it only contained links to videos and thus circumvented digg.com’s own recommendation to link directly to news stories and videos.
But boost my blog traffic it did:To this day, the post has only received one digg (which was my own), but it never the less helped to drive the traffic figures: In the past seven days, the post has received 802 hits, because people click on many more stories published on digg than they actually digg. ‘To digg’ a story means to express that one likes it by clicking on a ‘digg it!’ button. The more diggs, the higher the ranking on digg.
And these are my traffic ratings of the past eight days - the Britney Spears post was published on the 6th of May:
03/05/2007 - 75 views
04/05/2007 - 77 views
05/05/2007 - 75 views
06/05/2007 - 339 views
07/05/2007 - 1589 views
08/05/2007 - 295 views
09/05/2007 - 186 views
10/05/2007 - 149 views
Tomorrow, I’ll explain what happened on the seventh of May. It had nothing to do with Britney’s tits at all.
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hehe. I’m looking forward to Big Brother 8 which is going to start over here soon. Hopefully one of the contestants will have a dodgy past (e.g. a sex tape), so I can blog about it, thus driving my traffic
I haven’t experimented with using digg for this kind of thing yet. I joined digg a good while ago but I’m not really that interested in most of these web 2.0 apps., as I merely end up signing up for all of them, only to never use them.
Comment by lenina — May 12, 2007 #
Awhile back I included “anal” as a tag. Freud and psychosexual development was the context. I’ve been amused to think that at least l person a day surfs in searching “anal” and gets instead a dose of politics and naturalism.
Comment by skunkcabbage — May 12, 2007 #
@Lenina: I also wonder who uses digg to get updated about anything! I secretly suspect that it is only used by people who seek to drive their traffic. In the same way that hyperfiction was only read by people that wrote hyperiction.
@Cabbage: That points to another interesting use to which one can put sleaze tags! Also, once could educate people about the porn industry
Comment by anaj — May 12, 2007 #
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I think it’s only a matter of time before Britney runs over a photographer and kills ‘em. What happened to that sweet old Britney we used to know and love?
Comment by topfloor music — November 20, 2007 #