07-25-2007, 10:51 AM
Quote:Ive been watching your alexa ranking and youve seen some nice growth (over 10000) - whats behind it?
Its just direct response advertising meets PR.
Study the top stories at Digg or MSN.com and youll notice a pattern: the top stories all polarize people. Do not try to appeal to everyone. Instead, take a strong stance and polarize people: make some love you and some hate you. Hate is an extreme, but heres the gist: what you write, in order to create the highest pass-along value, needs to be remarkable. Is it something that is worth remarking upon?
If you make it threaten peoples 3 Bs behavior, belief, or belongings you get a huge virus-like dispersion...
full article: http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/...m-ferriss/