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A-Lister Tactics: How to get 200 trackbacks for a single post

Categories: Social MediaPosted on October 10th, 2007

I personaly know many of the A-listers, and some of their tactics and tricks. In this post, I will analyze how they do this so you too can aspire to be a leader on digg or techmeme.

Step 1: Find a topic that you’re not an expert at
Step 2: Assert your knowledge and domination over the topic
Step 3: Be outrageous, be absolutely “polar” in a “gray” topic
Step 4: Try to insult or attack a specific vertical or industry (bonus points for insulting the SEO industry)
Step 5: Tell everyone
Step 6: Back it up, don’t step back
Step 7: Do it again!

If you do this right, you could get 212 tracebacks for a single post, or wait, and deploy at the right time and get up 267 trackbacks for a single post. Alexa confirms a traffic boost to the domain.

I’ve been in training this last week, and part of this week, and I’m learning that data, research, and backing up by assertions with facts, figures and information will be a daily part of my job –then to be vetted by other people who know the topic as well or better than I. Although appropriate, as a former blogger, I’d often give me ideas and opinions based upon my personal and professional experiences, I’m looking forward to balancing both.

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  • Why wouldn't this be true in the online world, as it is in the off-line world? Bad publicity is still publicity, right? If it weren't for disparaging headlines or those who act in "extremes" and get ridiculed for it, we would hardly know some of our tabloid celebrities. Doesn't surprise me that this is the past to online "celebrity" (as measured by trackbacks) as well.
  • Hahaha. Jeremiah, this is your best post so far this year.

    It's doubly ironic when you refer to training regarding facts and numbers. HAH! We don't need no facts!
  • Allen, Yes, I'll be a speaker at blog world expo in veags, I can't wait to see you again!
  • This is exactly why I don't read A-Listers. THere full of BS.
  • That's called "Doing a Dvorak..."
  • you going to blogworld? sshhh - but I am going to be a speaker!
  • Controversy always seems to work. When I posted about Donald Trump or Britney Spears, it gets the most attention.
  • I was appalled by the Web 3.0 post. Sure, it's driving traffic to his site, but it was so gratuitously self-serving, it genuinely lowered my impression of him...
  • Allen, you rock bud, too bad we didn't get to meet up in NY
  • Jeremiah - great post - I thought that creating fact-driven posts would reduce issues, with the person to which you mention, it increased them for me.

    I love hunting down facts for an article - I think of myself as columbo on those days :)

    The best time is when I have an idea that something is wrong and then can back up my hunch with raw data.

    I can only imagine the wealth of data you are now sitting in front of - you might never sleep again!
  • Aha, I see Jeremiah. We had our own similar rinse and repeat scenario in South Africa a few months back: see this.

    A well known SA columnist David Bullard attacked the blogosphere and then set up his own blog. Pretty sneaky tactic.
  • Hmmm... love the assertions backed by data. Thanks for the chuckle this morning.
  • One person really sticks out, but he's just the loudest one donig it, there's many others

    The example given is nothing personal, just an observation from an outsider.

    I'll repeat that again, it's not personal, just an observation.
  • A direct stab at somebody in particular?
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