A few hours ago, I wrote this post, which increased traffic to my site by 10,000% within a short timespan.
I have to admit that the post is slightly misleading, although I think I did a good job of summarizing the topic, and providing interesting links to material that would be a natural progression of exploration from the blog post.
This post was successful because:
- It covered a current, breaking topic/event (The ad is receiving massive exposure at the moment)
- It took advantage of a topic that had not yet been explored in-depth by other sources
- It summarized a variety of fragmented sources
- It uses an authoritative, suggestive, intriguing title to snag visitors
- The topic covered plays off sexuality
- The post was quickly listed in major search engines and blog indexes
- I correctly anticipated and implemented the best keyword for driving topical traffic to the post
I have to admit that I created the post not because I was extremely interested in the topic, but because I knew it would drive traffic. I am not running advertisements on this portion of my site, but a similar post on a monetized blog would have brought in revenue, especially if the referenced advertisement had been displayed alongside the content.
I’m still relatively a beginner at SEO, and I doubt I will ever have the mind, interest, or patience for all the algorithms and time consuming link building that goes into the meat of the field, but this post served as a successful experiment, proving, for me, that if you post interesting, relevant niche content, and if you are at the top of your niche, visitors will come in droves.
It is mostly about being topical, and anticipating your audience’s interests and they keywords they will use to search for your content.