How I Attracted 10 Times More Visitors Overnight

The following post differs from the one that I was going to write but I thought that I had to share it. The above headline may seem quite a bold claim and some might say implausable but this happened to Ultrathought over the weekend. Why? Because of this post about the iPhone. The reasons for the massive spike were simple – currency, popularity and the power of a catchy headline. And yes, I did get 10 times more visitors to this site overnight compared to my normal readership.

The iPhone was released to the UK audience on Friday (CURRENCY) and on Saturday I posted the headline “Unlock Your UK iPhone”, a topic that has been covered in detail in the US spawning many sites and You Tube videos. In my post, the attention grabber was the little word “UK”, plain and simple.

What it proved was that there were literally thousands of people over the weekend searching for a method to unlock their iPhone (POPULARITY).

The magnetic power of well-written headlines cannot be underestimated. I first realised this after reading Copyblogger, in particular 10 Sure Fire Headlines, 7 more Sure-Fire Headlines both contained in the Magnetic Headlines Series. These articles are 100% on the money and should be ignored at your peril.

If you look at the headline for this post, you will notice that I’m again trying to do the same thing, we’ll see. And if nothing else, it proves that my SEO tactics are working! More to follow on that later…

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