Now If you have been following my threads, we should focus on how to get you to gain more traffic and subsequently get more money too. Let’s say for example that you just made a blog post but nobody’s clicking on it. (ha not your portion ooh) That’s because you don’t have enough coverage and your range is not big enough or strong enough to pull people in. Now, there are multiple ways to dealing with something like this. Take for example the most basic and common one you’ll find nowadays, aka the “share and pray” tactic. hahahaha

What this basically implies is that you share your post everywhere; you talk more and more about everything regarding the topic at hand in order to make people click on it. You spend hours upon hours to just keep on doing it over and over again. You do it well and you make a name for yourself, but the problem is that you are most definitely not going to make a lot of friends by doing this. Not everybody enjoys having their timeline spammed with links and a lot of people will even report you for being a bot which can actually result in a ban from the platform.

To top it all off the amount of people that will actually click on your link is very small, again, because not a lot of people online tend to click every link they see, especially if you use a sort of a copy-pasta in order to get your post on as many platforms as possible. And of course, one click won’t do you much if people disagree completely with your statement and decide to never click on your links again.

So, is this tactic useful? It can be. Have people made it using only this tactic? Most likely. Do you have a high chance of actually making it by applying it? Nope. In fact, your chances are actually diminishing every single day you post that on and people will even start considering you to be part of an MLM (Multi-Level Marketing scheme) aka a scam. You need to avoid this at any cost whatsoever because once you’re categorized as an MLM you’re done for. That’s rock bottom right there and it’s the worst place you can be in as a blog writer.

Another, way more useful way of making a name for yourself and your blog is by exploring certain niche industries and tackling them straight on. This does require quite a bit of research on your part though, but alas, if you do your homework right then it literally won’t matter in the slightest if you actually believe in anything you write anymore.

Remember, you don’t want to anger people, but at the same time, you do want to raffle them up just enough to get them to click. If you want to see the difference between the two then look at something like the Wall Street Journal, a multimillion-dollar company that specializes in news-based articles. They were doing just fine, making as much money as possible until of course, they decided to tackle the most controversial topic of them all, aka YouTube. Now, this doesn’t necessarily have to be a bad thing, but you do need to keep in mind that they took the wrong stance in the matter which resulted in a lot of backlashes.

What they basically did, if you’re not familiar with the story at hand, is they proceeded to attack YouTube and of course, attack the number 1 most subscribed YouTuber on the platform. They not only spread a lot of hate around to make them seem like the true villains of the story, but they completely got a whole lot of their information wrong which made it very easy for YouTube and it's number 1 YouTuber to retaliate.

Because of this The Wall Street Journal faced a huge backlash, it lost a whole bunch of dedicated readers, it lost its credibility and before they knew it people were boycotting them like crazy. That’s why you must never go and take the wrong stance on a controversial issue. You need to state the facts, even if the title of the blog is a bit more controversial than you’d want it to be.

So, just to emphasize the matter once and for all, you need to keep your blog topical, maybe even dip your toe in a recent controversy but you must never jump full-on in the matter and start taking sides. You need to get the clicks going, not the reactions. If you do end up angering the fans then where will that take you? Exactly.

With YouTube out of the way, we can now focus on a different yet similar platform known as Instagram. You most likely already know about it by now, what it entails and most certainly why it is such a big part of our world nowadays. But let’s be honest now, making a name out of it can be quite a challenge if you don’t have the right tools for it, which is where we come in.