Controversial Traffic

I was lucky enough the other week to get to ask a group of successful American bloggers what their key piece of advice was to build a well read blog. The answers were brief, but a recent analysis of the traffic patterns to Digital Recruiting reveals that they were also spot on. With that in mind I thought I'd share a couple of their responses

Joel Cheesman's advice was to "write often" and this is certainly something he does. The recently launched CheezheadXtra is also now providing even more content to the original site. Of course he is right and the traffic here peaks every time there is a new post, unsurprisingly this comes in the main from people who have subscribed to the RSS feed.

Jason Goldberg again gave a two word answer which was "be controversial". Absolutely spot on again, nothing seems to drive traffic like a good rant /argument/. Yesterday's rather heated discussion about Second Life a couple of posts down saw us get four times the usual traffic. I also found another great example of this via a link from Stephen's blog. It's a fantastic set of comments to be found here about Monster spamming people in Ireland. Very entertaining reading and already being linked to by several other bloggers!!

Comments

[Matt]

I didn't even realise I'd missed half of it. The issue is also covered on this blog here

http://www.tomrafteryit.net/monster-threaten-legal-action-and-ask-me-to-blame-someone-else/

The guy at Monster threatens legal action with a voicemail that was then published here

http://www.tomrafteryit.net/audio/JohnBurnsMonster.mp3

and then remixed (yes remixed!) here

http://www.lexferenda.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/monsterdotiemash.mp3

I have really never seen anything like this.....I don't even know what to think about it at this point......I'm not speechless very often!