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10 stupid ways to increase traffic to your site!

by Jared Earle on April 15th, 2009
  1. Start a stupid top ten list.
  2. Put the good hints up front.
  3. Make the last item of the list a good one.
  4. Split the list before you get to the filler.
  5. Pack it full of filler.
  6. Refer to another item on the list as this adds filler, like number 5 above.
  7. Split the list over several pages as each page counts as a view for your adverts.
  8. Drag it out to ten items, because it seems like the right amount.
  9. Use promising filler before a useful last item.
  10. Mention how cool/stupid Twitter is as comment-bait. If you don’t know what Twitter is, mention Apple vs PC and take an indefensible side.

Then, write a paragraph to say some bullshit that has a few SEO terms, like SEO or MLM and watch the link farms link back for the trackbacks and backlinks as the circle-jerk inflates itself by one. Oh, and solicit comments by begging and then tweet the list without using a URL shortener. Comments?

Update: 2009-04-17

  1. Come back later and add an 11th point.

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15 Comments
  1. Steve permalink
    Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:13:04 +0000

    Surely 11 ways would have been better than 10??

  2. Jared Earle permalink
    Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:16:37 +0000

    I must not forget to reply to the comments just so the original commenter, Steve, has to come back to read my reply to his comment, creating another click.

    Yes, Steve, an excellent point you should expand on, increasing the interest in my shitty site.

  3. Steve permalink
    Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:25:57 +0000

    Now you need to throw in some AdSense ads, maybe some affiliate marketing, offer the ability to sign-up to your newsletter and sell subscriptions to a membership site where you’ll explain “how to make money online,” buy some geo-targeted traffic and maybe spend a few bucks on an AdWords campaign, do some A/B testing and bam! Profit! Did I miss anything out? hehe

  4. Mabont permalink
    Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:38:42 +0000

    What the hell is Twitter? Soundslike bollocks to me and who forgot selling textlinks on site to help cover hosting costs?

    Please follow this on…http://blahblahblah.com

    ;)

  5. PaulNoJustPaul permalink
    Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:06:32 +0000

    Hang on, shouldn’t each one be on a separate page?

  6. Steve permalink
    Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:09:01 +0000

    You added magic number 11, quality!

  7. IT Buzz permalink
    Sat, 02 May 2009 22:25:50 +0000

    Interesting post but i’m unsure that should we go for all of ten consequently or one by one ?

  8. kovshenin permalink
    Mon, 18 May 2009 15:06:30 +0000

    LOL nice one, Jared ;) this made me laugh

  9. lbutlr permalink
    Thu, 28 May 2009 21:31:39 +0000

    #6 is the most important, shouldn’t it be #2?

  10. Ian Foster permalink
    Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:05:04 +0000

    Reading… http://bit.ly/K5t2D

  11. Spadge permalink
    Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:18:02 +0000

    I know a guy who buys apple macs but doesn’t run osx on them as he prefers windows.

    Now that’s what I call SMRT.

  12. Jared Earle permalink
    Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:36:57 +0000

    Oh, and make sure there’s a link to something like iPhone Spy App somewhere. That adds to the spamminess.

  13. victor_gibson permalink
    Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:35:20 +0000

    Which blog post of mine attracts the most Spam. this one: http://23x.net/117 /via @jearle. Mr Earle I forget how funny U R. Merry Xmas

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