My post yesterday was about Anchor Posts, about writing some excellent flagship content in a series of posts so as to immediately define your blog’s uniqueness. Now, a good blog is as good the number of visitors and repeated daily visitors. Otherwise, it will be like the world biggest diamond hidden somewhere in the vast desert somewhere deep down in earth where no one seems to be able to find it. Well, I am not elevating my blog to that status of a rare gem, but the idea is to have traffic to my blog. I stumble upon this interesting idea of linkbaiting. Matthew the creator of this linkbait got this creative idea attending a forum when one member asked the others this question “How Many Five Year Olds Could You Take In A Fight?” Immediately he could sense that he had something that could produce viral effect. He whipped up some questionnaires, designed some graphic and submitted to all major social media websites. The result was this interesting linkbait website: www.howmanyfiveyearoldscouldyoutakeinafight.com Shortly after that his site received more than 500,000 page views per day and even after two months later has 20,000 page views per day. A google search on this key phrase produces more than 2.5 millions pages only conclude the popularity of his creative website, which incidentally was created by borrowing the idea from someone else. My score is well below par perhaps because I have been known to be kind and gentle with children (any irony here?) Try out yours before you comment, won’t you? :-)

This is the kind of linkbait one can create to bring traffics to your blog - controversial, morbid, even funny and for mild person like me, I saw it as a practical joke.  One thing that he did cleverly was to get his readers opinions by participating in some questionnaires, a surefire way to get people involved and ensure the viral effect.  Matthew is now well known in the blogosphere!