Sexy Walrus: How to Earn 1,000,000+ Page Views with Your Title

Sexy Walrus: How to Earn 1,000,000+ Page Views with Your Title

Contrary to popular belief, the secret to a lot of page views on Associated Content isn’t in how interesting your article is, how much you know about the subject, or how hard you work at writing your articles. In fact, the number of page views you generate boils down to one thing: how “catchy” you can make your opening title.

1. Use Evocative Words: Words like “sex”, “money”, “girls”, “dating” and “death” are used in the titles for so many articles on the internet because they evoke a strong emotional response in readers, making it much more likely for people to click on, read, and remember the content of those articles. Take a lesson from this and be sure to use at least one evocative word in the title of every article that you write for Associated Content and other article sites.

2. Search Engine Optimize: If you want your titles to be found by Google, Yahoo, and Bing, make sure to make them as easy as possible to find. My rule is to use one word with a huge search volume (“sexy”), 2-4 words with high search volumes that are more related to your article (“page views”, “earn”, “title”) and at least one word completely unrelated to your article, just to make your title unique (“walrus”).

3. Confuse your reader: As strange as it sounds, titles that are at least a little confusing are more likely to generate lots of hits. In this case, pairing the terms “sexy” and “walrus” together make the readers of this article want to click, if only to see what on earth those two things have in common. It doesn’t even matter if you never mention the terms again in the article – you get paid for page views, not satisfied readers.

4. Make a fantastic claim: Can you really generate 1,000,000+ page views for your article? As Dr. Nick of The Simpsons once said if asked whether people can really lose weight eating whatever they want, “Sure, it’s a free country.” In other words, it could happen, but I have no idea whether it will happen. However, the fantastic claim I made was probably at least part of the reason you clicked on this article. Take the lesson and use similar tactics in your own articles.

5. Be Controversial: I didn’t follow this rule for my particular title for the article here, but, in general, this is great advice. A controversial title can generate mega page views, if nothing else from people who disagree with your article clicking to see how big of a moron you are! Remember, you don’t get paid if people think that you’re smart; you get paid if they click onto your article.

5 Don’ts of Internet Blogging

Not all blogs are created equal. Some blogs thrive and have thousands of page views per months while others languish in the forgotten world known as the dead blog zone. What is the difference? This article gives 5 things you definitely don’t want to do on your personal blog.

1. Don’t write boring posts: This advice sound like a kind of “duh” advice that people often give you when you’re faced with a problem, yet people seldom take the cliché to heart or even realize that they are guilty of breaking the rule themselves. So, I repeat again: Don’t write boring posts!

What types of posts are boring? First off, no one cares about your kid spitting up on your t-shirt during feeding earlier today, your dog playing in the park, or the comic book convention you just got back from (unless you have lots of pictures of hot comic book chicks included). In other words, don’t write articles that are just interesting for you, but instead try to make them interesting for everyone. A good example of something interesting to everyone is a “how to” article – as evidenced by the plethora of sites like www.Ehow.com that exist simply to teach people how to do things. Don’t know how to do something, like opening a checking account in Spain or getting revenge on noisy neighbors. Go find the answer and write an article about it!

2. Don’t post only text: This is another obvious-but-often-ignored piece of advice from the internet world. Just because you have wonderful pictures of your trip to Aruba in your mind doesn’t mean everyone else has them there too. Post pictures man, and the more the better!

If you have a video on Youtube that you can embed in your website at the appropriate places, that’s even better. My rule of thumb is that you need three good pictures, two pictures of a beautiful girl, or one movie in every post before the average reader will even look at it.

3. Don’t try to make a masterpiece every time: Not every time up to bat will be a home run and not every hand dealt will be pocket aces. Similarly, not every blog post you make will be a timeless masterpiece for posterity to enjoy. Some posts will be duds, most will be average, and a few will really stand out. Since it’s hard to tell beforehand which post will fall into which category, the key is to put up consistent, regular posts with just a little variety thrown in to spice things up.

4. Don’t work too hard: This probably the most counterintuitive but true piece of blogging advice ever given, but working too hard can actually work against you in the end. The danger here is that you will burn yourself out before you’ve really given your blog a chance to grow. Spending half of your day writing for your blog will probably get boring over time even during the best circumstances, more so if you have only a few readers.

Instead, try to take shortcuts. Frequent small posts, sometimes just a joke or funny video from Youtube, can often be much more productive than a long winded and well thought out discourse that takes weeks to write. Remember the adage that “time is money” and spend your time accordingly.

5. Don’t give up: Probably the ultimate mistake that bloggers make it to give up and stop trying. As one example, I had a particular young lady in her early 20’s whose blog I used to visit weekly to read her poetry and listen to music she posted. Then, her blog disappeared. Her content was good enough that I’m sure that, if she’d stuck with it, her blog would have had more followers than mine in another six months. Take the lesson from her: don’t give up!