My previous post on ‘Sex sells dont you think? Debunking the Myth of Using Sexuality to Gain Traffic’ shows that sex sells – it really increases web hits when you put a pretty or sexy picture on your social profile.
Intentionally I placed an incredibly sexy photo of a beautiful Japanese model and surprisingly, 51 people actually clicked on the photo! Look at the screen shot of my site’s page impression counter:
According to my web stats on SiteMeter, I had 184 unique hits on 7th and 8th November 2007. 51 people out of 184 actually clicked on the picture which is a staggering 27.71%! This means that 1 out of 3 people who visited this site actually clicked on that sexy photo!
Although this test is not 100% accurate, somehow it does show that sex does play its role in our community. On the other hand, this creates more questions on my head:
1. Would sex be more effective than social media marketing?
2. Is it TABOO to talk about sex?
3. How do you incorporate sex into blogging without offending the community?
On my previous post:
kljs, Jean and Anna agrees that sex sells and that people are more inclined to click on sexy pictures. Great Seducer on the other hand targets horny people while KimFei won't cheat on his site's visitors.
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Happy Deepavali everyone! Today is one of the auspicious days for Indians worldwide as they celebrate a joyous moment once a year which is called Deepavali. Chinese have Chinese New Year, Muslims celebrates Hari Raya and Christians have Christmas while the Indians celebrate Deepavali.
I had the honor of being invited by a friend of mine to his house to celebrate Deepavali – we were served mutton, curry chicken, eggs and top that with a nice yellow colored rice (I forgot the name). Mutton is definitely my favorite dish on the menu and I bagged it nicely in my special compartment – my stomach.
But the most fun part was the fireworks – it has been years since I lay my hands on some, just too many years. Last but not least, this is how we have fun on Deepavali – enjoy the video and cheers!
(NOTE: It might be a little dark as my SE W610 sucks in taking night shots: Turn up your brightness/contrast)
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 I just had a flashback a while ago on a particular episode of ‘The Apprentice’ where a team of girls were going up against another team of guys. You should have guessed it – the gals did pretty well in the beginning of the show, beating the guys flat bringing shame to them – with a huge capital ‘L’ on their forehead.
But what made it interesting was that they did use sex as an advantage to help them win. For example,
1. They flirted with a guy selling gold – asking him to sell it at a lost
2. Wore sexy clothes during the opening of a restaurant to gain more customers
3. More flirtings to bend men’s will towards theirs…
You get the point?
Months back, I did use their strategy to help me gain traffic – my results? I gained an unusually high amount of traffic for that particular period. I placed a beautiful Asian girl as my portrait on MyBlogLog and oh my, people started adding me into their profile. I got over 3000 page views on my profile for that month which was generously diverted to my blogs (some still think that I’m a female money blogger).
If you are feeling pretty evil (like me) – try adding beautiful pictures of girls on MyBlogLog and see whether this is a myth or would it actually WORK?!
What are your thoughts?
Cheers!
PS – Would you click on her?
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 Since there is a huge buzz regarding Social Media Marketing, I thought of listing a few social media sites which you can use to list your articles and get free web hits. On the other hand, it’s pretty complicated when you want to market your articles on Social Media sites – most of these sites won’t allow you to submit your own blog content, you get banned from doing so. One of the famous sites that frequently does this is Digg.
I believe that you need to spend some time to gain trust with the people who are actively participating on social media sites. Once you get that, you’ll see almost each and every article of yours being listed on the site – and with loads of votes as well. What you want is to build a sustainable relationship with other bloggers – it’s like you help me, I help you, both in a win-win situation.
Here are some of the social media sites which you can try out. Just a word of caution, some of these sites are topic specific – meaning that if it’s an IT social media site, they only allow you to post IT topic, etc… Make sure you post in the correct site so you don’t get banned!
http://digg.com/ – awesome 10,000 unique hits per hour if you appear on the main page
http://del.icio.us/
http://propeller.com/ – previously was Netscape.com, app. few thousand hits for that day
http://reddit.com/
http://sphinn.com/ – money category available
http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/
http://www.blinklist.com/
http://www.fark.com/
http://www.clipfire.com/
http://backflip.com/
http://www.cluebacca.com/
http://beanrocket.com/
http://www.blogmarks.net/
http://buddymarks.com/
http://www.citeulike.org/
http://www.diigo.com/
http://frassle.net/
http://bloggingzoom.com/
http://memeorlame.com/
http://www.pixelgroovy.com/
http://www.plugim.com/
http://tweako.com/
http://www.ttiqq.com/
http://www.dzone.com/
http://www.gamediggity.com/
http://www.feedmarker.com/
Hope this helps you :) I’m definitely using this list. Cheers!
PS – Let me know if I have missed any.. thanks! |
 I believe that if you read Maki’s article at DoshDosh.com about Social Media Marketing – you’ll know what means. I’m feeling pretty evil today. As you know, Digg and other sites like Propeller and Sphinn can contribute loads of traffic to your site – provided if you appear on the main page with lots of votes.
Here’s my master plan:
1. I’m looking for 1,000,000 people to join me in this scheme. Criteria to join:
i. You love traffic
ii. You want huge amount of traffic to your site monthly
iii. You don’t mind clicking on a simple ‘vote’ button to get loads of traffic (and to the people whom you are helping)
2. Post a reply on this article together with the link to your Digg/Sphinn/Propeller/etc and whoever visits this article, please vote for the article by clicking on the link
3. If this works out, in the future, I’ll open up a private forum where everyone can sign up and vote each other’s article - without Digg, etc even knowing what's happening!
Start posting your links here! |
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