How to get traffic for your terrible gaming editorial

dimeford | September 05, 2008 | Blog | Misc

A guide for crafting a gaming editorial awful enough to get to the front page of Digg. Learn the art of attracting soon-to-be-disappointed readers! No skill required - or recommended.

Also, see if you can incorporate sex into the headline even if the article has nothing to do with sex at all. Any article involving sexuality rockets to the top of news aggregator websites as if by magic. If Blizzard changes the boob size of female characters in World of Warcraft by a centimeter, I guarantee you'll see an article at the top of Digg the next day with virtual nipple comparison shots.

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chautemoc | September 05, 2008

Seriously brilliant. Haha. I've never intentionally tried any of this stuff myself, but it's worked for me anyway at times.
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vaga_koleso | September 06, 2008

Sad, but oh so true. Of course, in practice, these kinds of visitors rarely turn into dedicated users, but you can still caress that spike on your traffic graph for many days to come.
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vaga_koleso | September 06, 2008

p.s. I am conducting an informal test to figure out if the same advice works equally well for a terrible blog post. I'll let you know the results
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Final Blade | September 06, 2008

_{^ you do know you could have edited your post right?

Anyway this sounds cool.}
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Dark Arcanine | September 08, 2008

Well, I have "orgasm" in the title of a game video article and it's already achieved double the articles I put up earlier today. Think it's too early to jump to conclusions but I can see the inclusion of sexual terms receiving much larger ratings.

Like the article I did about women gamers and another on the top 5 women of video games, they shot up like rockets.