Blog Traffic Tips: Make Them Hate You

[mandy]

I’ve been watching your alexa ranking and you’ve seen some nice growth (over 10000) - what’s behind it?

It’s just direct response advertising meets PR.

Study the top stories at Digg or MSN.com and you’ll 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 here’s 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 people’s 3 Bs — behavior, belief, or belongings — you get a huge virus-like dispersion...

full article: http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/...m-ferriss/