Case Study: Turning $100 into 10,000 visitors and 100+ Links
I’ve been testing out blogging in different niches lately, doing some posts for a personal site and also coming up with post ideas for clients. My experience is that there is a lot to gain from writing in a new niche, from learning how to network with zero status and using popular content ideas in an industry where they don’t exist.
This post is going to look at a simple tactic that brought over 10,000 visitors and hundreds of links that you can replicate today.
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September 22nd, 2008 / 
Social Media
6 Sure-Fire Tactics to Re-Ignite your Linkbait
Do you ever think you’ve wrote the perfect viral piece, only to see it flop on Digg and other social sites? Or that because your content didn’t ‘make it’ there’s nothing else you can do?
I’m not one of these social media marketers that simply write about the topic (sadly, there are a lot of them), I work with some of the biggest companies in the world: consistently driving huge amounts of traffic. Today I’m going to share the exact methods I use to help promote linkbait even after it might not have done well initially.
19 Comments / July 21st, 2008 / Social Media
Interview with Fark Founder, Drew Curtis
When I wrote a post about the ‘Definitive Guide to Fark and Getting Mass Traffic‘, the last person I expected to comment on the post was the founder of the website itself. I emailed Drew in private to let him know that none of the traffic stats there were from spamming the site and nor was it encouraged, just to keep things on good terms.
I also asked if Drew would be interested in doing an interview and to my surprise, he seemed very keen to answer my questions so that’s what we have today. Following are some pretty interesting stats and intelligent responses.
3 Comments / July 7th, 2008 / Social Media
One Thing All Successful Blogs have in Common
When you focus on trying to make something a success online, it’s common for you to look at other similar ideas that are doing well and try to work out why that is. However, it can seem that there are so many different variables which will been replicating or bettering success will be seemingly impossible.
Due to their being over 200 million blogs and hundreds of thousands started daily, it may surprise you that there is one common factor to all successful blogs that I’m going to share with you today.
17 Comments / July 1st, 2008 / Social Media
Definitive Guide to Fark and Getting Mass Traffic
When Fark has the ability to send hundreds of thousands of visitors to a site every single month, I’m surprised that more people haven’t written about how to leverage traffic from the site. Perhaps the main reason is that people don’t understand Fark or that it isn’t really a ‘news voting’ community.
Nevertheless, there are ways to leverage traffic (lots) from the site that I’m going to show you today. First, let me share with you what Fark is all about.
26 Comments / June 16th, 2008 / Social Media
