Comments on: How To Get Blog Traffic By Pissing Off Your Audience

By: Davor Gasparevic

Davor Gasparevic — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:12:59 +0000

Now you really inspired me, I have a few ideas of my own how to “piss” of my visitors, but I feared that would make negative vibes around my blog.

I will definitely try it out.

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9 Ways To Stand Out In A Crowded Blogging Niche | David Risley dot com — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:39:03 +0000

[...] a pattern interrupt. I go into more detail about the pattern interrupt here, but it all comes down to being different than the rest of the people who talk about what you talk [...]

By: jobs

jobs — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:55:11 +0000

nice tips, thanks for sharing.

By: TruSpeaks

TruSpeaks — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:20:29 +0000

another great article. Thank you

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How To Write For Blog Readers Just RIDDLED With ADD | David Risley dot com — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:48:58 +0000

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By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:10:04 +0000

If you piss off readers, I’m not sure how useful the traffic you get will be. Any thoughts no this? My gut feeling is that people won’t buy if they are not in rapport with the reader (a key hypnosis principle).

By: psytrance

psytrance — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:07:56 +0000

Usually I don’t write comments in blogs but this time I just had to! Thank you very much for the usefull infos you have here!!

By: Vaughan Rivett

Vaughan Rivett — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:10:04 +0000

David, Thanks for this article. I enjoy reading both your newsletters and also your blog. As a person who reads a lot of blogs, I would agree. If you want to stand out, you really need to do something that gets peoples attention, I think that this is often easier said than done.

Thanks once again.

Vaughan Rivett

By: Chuck Rosseel

Chuck Rosseel — Mon, 18 May 2009 22:16:32 +0000

This is excellent advice. I would only add that it can be very helpful to piss off a big dog.

For example I got into a pissing contest with some skunks at the Warrior Forum (a hugely popular marketing forum) so I decided to write about it on my blog and a Squidoo Lens.

I entitled it “Warrior Forum Hates Free Speech” and then let loose with both barrels in the body of the article. I knew it would spark controversy so I applied some simple white hat seo techniques to get it ranked on Google.

I knew tons of folks search Google for “Warrior Forum” and related keywords every day so wouldn’t it be sweet to have all these good folks see my controversial article title as they browsed search results related to the Warrior Forum?

Well it only took me a few days to have my Warrior Forum blog post and Squidoo Lens ranked on page one of Google. Then the sh@t really hit the fan. Visitors, both pro and con, flocked to my blog and lens.

The upshot was that my lens made Squidoo Top 100 for a while and that one little blog post url helped shoot my entire blog to the number one position on page one of Google out of over 24 million results for “cash gifting blogs”. It remains there today.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 17 May 2009 11:40:09 +0000

Thanks for that, it really do make sense. People love “unusual,” “controversial,” “crazy” stuff! I know I do.

Now you have me thinking in another direction. Just what the doctor ordered!

Excellent post! Glad I visited.