To Keep or Not to Keep Superman
16 12 2007I’ve been getting an amazing number of hits on my blog lately. I mean like 500 or so visitors in a week, which is about triple my normal number of visitors. At first I thought great, this is fantastic, then I thought, wait a minute, I don’t post often enough for that many people to keep coming back…
Turns out that people are googling ‘Superman’ or ’super man’ and end up clicking on here because one of my posts has an image of superman on it. Pop…Ego balloon deflated.
Although, I’m still getting this little thrill whenever I check my stats and see that 70 some people popped in, if only for a second or two. Yet, it’s not really my thrill to experience, it’s Superman’s. I’m not certain if I should take the image down on that post or leave it up. So, feel free to chime in with your opinion in the comments section. Should I rely on Superman to increase my number of hits or not?
I’d suggest you to let the superman image be. But writing something relevant to your site’s topic but would also tackle Superman’s traits/characters and put a link to that post (where the traffic-magnet image is) directing to the new post about Superman.
Include lots of images of Superman, links to movies, even Superman products referral links (can even earn you some). Or you can even make a series out of that post to make readers keep on coming back. Make sure to announce that will be more Superman-related posts.
The idea is to always link the topic to Superman while maintaining the relevance of the content to your blog’s topic.
I hope this helps.