Traffic Traffic Traffic !!
Every Blogger and Internet Marketer needs Traffic to succeed online.
No Traffic = No Sales = No Profits.
I am always in search of new ways to drive visitors to my blog and get more conversions. Every now and then I found new ways or generate new ideas of my own to get both traffic and backlinks. But there are some online marketers and bloggers that can go to any extent to get traffic and hype for their blogs. They just want traffic and they don’t mind spoiling their online presence and readership for it.
Sad but True, there are a lot of them and I come across such people each day. I have collected a list of dirty tricks and methods they use to drive traffic (and backlinks too) to their blogs and I am sharing this with you all. You will be amazed to know these.
PS : I am not sharing this post in order to urge you for using these black hat methods, but I just wanted to make you all aware of what is going on in the online marketing world and how people are thinking out of the box.
1. Organizing a Fake Contest on your Blog
Now this is the Cheapest strategy that Bloggers are exploiting these days. What they do is run a contest on their blog and claim to give a premium product to the one who wins the contest. That way they get huge exposure and get people tweeting, liking and commenting on their posts (which are actually the rules they set to participate in the contest). Moreover they also set – adding a backlink on your blog, as a mandatory rule to participate. This way they get huge backlinks too. But the place where they get dirty is when they announce a fake winner. That is, they will just say in the follow up post (after getting tons of traffic and backlinks) that the winner’s name is ‘this’ (in place of ‘this’ they put a name created out of their imagination). They do not provide any proof (of selecting the winner) and then get along to post other posts (or fake giveaways like this). This cost them nothing but they get huge exposure through this.
Thats a shame for all of them who do this. The traffic they will get will not stay for long and moreover if they don’t provide proof of selecting winners (which they, obvisiouly, will not). Every participant, with brain, will know that its not genuine.
To all of them who are fond of participating in blogging contests, make sure to check that the contest host has mentioned that he will choose the winner randomly (through sites like random.org) and will also provide a video proof of selection. If you are participating in a contest run by a reputed blog, the proof is not the thing to worry, because those guys are trustworthy already.
2. Faking your Blog’s sale in online marketplaces
Now this is even worse and completely unethical method. What people do is, they make it appear that they are selling their blogs. This way they try to get as much traffic and buzz as they can. They simply list their blog on sale on famous online forums like Digital Point and SitePoint and even on popular auction sites like Flippa. This way they get huge number of visits from curious folks and potential buyers. They run the listing for over a week and then just mention that the reserve price was not met, and then they call the sale off. Dirty but Free for them and so they are exploiting it.
The traffic they will be getting is from the people that are only interested to buy the site and will never come back to read their posts after they pull the sale off. Moreover their blog’s regular readers will feel deceived and will, most probably, stop visiting their blog anymore.
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