3 most incredible ways ever to get blog visitors
September 15th, 2010 by David Bradley >> 6 Comments
Take a look at this infographic highlighted recently on Problogger and then see what I did with the title of this blog post to exploit the three aspects of the graphic that are important for driving traffic to your website or blog. It’s an insider joke really, but it does occasionally work, as long as you don’t exploit the approach too often.
Put simply, the graphic suggests tailoring your headline to include a top # list described with a superlative and significant historical context.
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Kate // Sep 15, 2010 at 3:16 pm
LoL. Well, it got me.
jumoke // Sep 16, 2010 at 12:52 am
Got me too!
Aasel // Sep 16, 2010 at 3:27 pm
You got the right formula
Alex Whinfield // Sep 16, 2010 at 6:25 pm
Great post David
Renato P. dos Santos // Jan 14, 2011 at 10:19 am
hmmm.
I wonder if that works for scientific papers titles too.
David Bradley // Jan 14, 2011 at 11:08 am
LOL Marketing is marketing. Lots of papers throughout scientific history have used those kinds of techniques to draw in readers. I reckon you could look to Faraday as an early master of the art of communicating more than the paper…