Use Controversy to Increase Website Traffic
This is a guest post by Ethan Christ who blogs over at Poetry 2.0. Ethan is currently running an After Christmas Contest Giveaway with a $50 adsense voucher prize.
Without traffic, your website is just taking up space. If zero people read what you post, then why even bother posting it? Today I am not going to talk about various ways to promote your blog, but rather I am going to tell you what sparks a reader’s interests and keeps a surge of traffic coming to my blog. The answer is simple: Controversy.
Blackhat SEO forums are free on Christmas
David Airey Hacked
While reading around a few blogs, I came across a blogger/designer from the United Kingdom. His name is David Airey and he blog(ed) over at DavidAirey.com. His Gmail account was hacked and the hacker took siege over the ownership of his domain and is asking for $250 to get his name back.
David Airey doesn’t want to pay the criminal, so he moved his entire blog over to a backup domain (DavidAirey.co.uk), but has lost all of his search engine results in the process.
Happy Holidays
I just wanted to wish all of my readers a happy [insert a holiday that you celebrate here]. It does not matter whether you are celebrating Christmas, New Years, Hanukkah, Ramadan, Kwanzaa, or something I have never even heard of, I hope you have a good time! If you blog every day like myself, you might want to take a day off, as now would be the perfect time to do it. Go have a blast! The internet, your blogs, your websites, and even your endless amounts of emails will still be here when you get back!
Get a free .edu blog
*Looks like the host nuked the blogs, so I now declare this post obsolete.*
I was originally planning on not even writing this… but here goes nothing. I get a lot of people to email me about getting a free blog post on my PR2 .edu blog. Today I stumbled upon yet another university that gives away blogs, but the difference is with this one anyone can register as many .edu domains blogs as they want.
Who else wants to make money with proxies?
As most of you already know, I have only been blogging for a little over a month but I have been developing websites and making money online for over a year. The first website I had ever developed was a web proxy. A web proxy allows you to bypass network firewalls and is commonly used to access websites that are normally restricted (like getting on myspace at school). I had a few ups and downs with my first proxy, but over the course of a few failures I learned a lot about how to build and market them effectively. My second attempt at making a web proxy was when I grabbed the keyword domain “unblock.cc” for a bargain at $30. Unblock Myspace was the most trafficked web proxy keyword at that time so I figured I would build a long term proxy for it. Things did not go entirely as planned, but in the course of two months I made $975.43 and then sold the website for $1300 (minus Escrow fees).
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