Content Creation Secrets

The post I stumbled upon is on a topic that would interest any blogger. It is about how to have the best blog on the Internet.

Among the points discussed is the importance of traffic to your blog. Digg is recommended. You’re advised to Digg your own blog posts and not of others.

There’s nothing wrong being a little selfish to drive traffic to your blog.

The post then goes on to point out that there are many interesting but unpopular sites (apparently sites with good content) over the Internet. Such sites are classified as losers.

You’re advised not to jump on the loser’s bandwagon.

Then the show stopper comes.

The blogger questions whether content is King. No, content is not King. Content is crap. Popularity is King.
What he’s saying is no matter what great content you have, if it’s not popular, your blog is crap.

Since popularity is King, let’s look at how you can make your blog popular.

Let’s use his blog post as a case study.

The first golden rule is you must use sex words to make your blog popular.

One part of the post emphasizes the importance of keywords to draw traffic to your blog. You should use keywords in your title, tags etc.

To illustrate this he uses the keyword vagina.

To rank highly for the keyword vagina, you have to use the keyword as much as 70% in your content. He gives you examples of what you can use – Vagina Avenue, vaginally and vaginad aloud, among other sickening keywords.

You would be wondering why choose vagina to illustrate the importance of keywords. Very simple. Any other keyword would not have made his post popular

He swears by sex words. Another post of his is littered with WTFs and other four-letter words. It seems that some folks would read any blog post and comment provided there’s a sex word in it and this blogger takes full advantage of the discovery.

Always illustrate a principle or theory with sex words and you’ll draw more traffic and comments. Use words like breast, vagina or penis. Words like house, cars, gold or music will make your blog unpopular.

Also when you use sex words, you’re bound to get a few comments just on the words. One commenter asked whether he could use penis instead of vagina. Another suggested using Fanny Hill instead of vagina. See, how easy it is to get comments.

There’s another use of sex words as far as our blogger is concerned. It’s by far the easiest method to generate humor. One commenter described the post as witty. See, you get comments just for using humor (even if your post doesn’t require it) and comments are not easy to come by if you’re blogger just starting out.

Humor is as powerful as sex. Combine sex and humor and you have a heady mix to suck traffic and skyrocket your blog to the top of the popularity charts. Forget posting in forums, buying Adwords or contributing content to article directories.

So, you have the potent mix of sex and humor but don’t miss out on the third ingredient that would reinforce your blog’s popularity.

The third ingredient is blatantly challenging conventional wisdom or making nonsensical suggestions. As you’ve seen, just by going out and saying content is crap and popularity is king, you’ll make your blog popular. You will have readers making a beeline to offer comments.

But there’s always space for senseless suggestions to complete the picture.

Our blogger gives an example. He suggests that if your blog isn’t popular in three days, scrap it and start a new one. Don’t waste time working hard on it to make it number one.

There you have it. The three secret ingredients of a popular, high-traffic blog – sex words, humor and crappy advice.

So, are you ready to ditch content and court popularity?

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