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Old 11-29-2010, 03:01 PM  
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Originally Posted by Angry Jew Cat View Post
Controversy works very well. Way back it eh day on my very first site, probably around 99, i had a random blog type thing going on. Back in the e/n days. I grew my traffic rapidly with a "Sites that suck" section. Not really through SEO and backlinking per se, but weekly I'd choose some random high traffic site and cut the fucker right dwn, call the writer a fag, or whatever else. Then send them off a random email. Next thing you know they'd post some shit about me. Every time I'd wind up stealing a portion of their traffic. Was a reasonably good tactic. Not so sure it'd work as well today, but it sure worked then.
Quality. I've had a similar experience only yesterday after ripping into someone, nice traffic spike and a number of signups to our site as a result.

"There's no such thing as bad publicity"

There becomes a limit of how far to go of course, but there's mileage in it for sure.

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