Writing Tips

Before there was Lady Gaga there was Stefani Germanotta. Some of you might be surprised that Stefani Germanotta is Lady Gaga. I have a small confession to make. I like Lady Gaga. She’s an amazing entertainer, musician, artist, and dancer. While I enjoy Ms. Gaga’s music, I also have noticed several important marketing lessons that one can learn from her.

Of course blogs aren’t the only type of content on the Internet these days and more and more companies and individual business owners are asking for articles. These generally get distributed to websites that scatter them across ezines and other locations, so if you can adopt some kind of formula to write these you’ll produce professional results when you need them. 2EPKFHDM3MUD

We all get them. It doesn’t matter how well written an article is, how much you’ve researched and gotten the facts down, there’s always someone out there just looking for a someone to attack. I get my fair share. I’m almost sure I will get nasty comments on this post.

The term “link bait” or “Digg bait” is sometimes used in a negative light, meant to indicate a type of post that is meant to pander to a lower element than most blog posts. But while this can be true and often times is, it is also not always the case. What the term “link bait” actually means is that the post is the type of work others will want to link to. The types of content people want to link to is as varied as the types of content available on the Web, ranging from pure garbage to enlightened discussion.

Imagine you woke up this morning and wrote an article. Just another article like all the articles you’ve been writing. Except something is different about this one. Tons of folks are clicking on this article. They’re reading it and forwarding it to friends. They’re signing up to your newsletter in droves. The numbers go into the hundreds, then into the thousands, then into the tens of thousands. What was it about that single article that created such a surge of traffic?