How to Artificially Make your Blog Look Busy
What entices a consumer to walk into a shopping center or a store? The mob mentality. When a store is filled with customers, others who are just passing by will also join the crowd out of curiosity. Half the job is done when a customer walks in. Now all he has to do is to buy something and the store owner will make his gains. What then will make the potential customer want to buy anything? The products he sells of course. If the goods are very attractively displayed, if the prices are reasonable, if the product is unique, he has a 90 percent success rate of completing a sale and getting that customer to come back for more in the future.
What makes a reader want to come to our blogs? The mob mentality again. If everyone is visiting that blog, curious readers will also want to check out that blog and again, half the job is done when a reader visits the blog. What makes the reader wants to read your blog? The articles you write, of course. If your articles are attractively written, if what you write makes sense, and if your posts are unique, you have a 90 percent success rate of getting that reader to read your blogs and come back for more in the future.
Theoritically speaking all is well and dandy. How the hell do you make the first customer walk in is the major obstacle and how to make the rest join him is another big one. Aaahh.. but the blog is a very virtual thing. You may not have thousands coming, but you can certainly make it look that way. You can make your blog to look as if it is bursting in the seams even though your stats shows that you only had 50 visitors thus far. Nobody has to know that and nobody will know unless you choose to reveal it. So what do you do to create that artificial busy look?
First, you insert a lot of those 125 x125 buttons in your sidebar. Join lots of affiliate programs that you know will not make you a single sales because of your pitiful number of blog readers but give you a chance to display their attractive buttons. Place at least six of those under the word, “Sponsors” it will give a false impression that you have many sponsors for your blog, thus creating a imaginery crowd.
Then you download and activate the “Recent Comments and Trackback” plugin like what I am doing in my sidebar. Submit, create or trackback to many popular blogger’s post, hoping that they will trackback to you. Your Recent Comments will fill up with all the tarckbacks that you receive and again will give your blogs a very busy looking effect.
A good place to start today is to write a lame tip on “how to blog better in 31 days” and submit that to Problogger. It will then be publish in one of his updates and once his updated list goes online, all those vultures who has noting better to write will pick up the whole list and paste it in their blogs. This way, not only will you be getting free backlinks, your “Recent Trackback” will also fill up, and again will make your blog looks real busy, like as though so many have read your post, wrote about it and tracked back to your blog.
In case you are sniggling, this is not a joke post okay. I am serious. Don’t you feel my blog here looks real “busy” with all those trackbacks and recent comments? And in big humongous letters at that? Don’t that make you want to come back again and again? Don’t that make you at least want to subscribe to this blog? If it doesn’t then you are just being obnoxious.
