Looking for a quick spike in traffic or want to give your blog a quick increase in it’s visibility? Play the ‘fanboys’ like puppets!

WARNING: The following technique is quite manipulative and a little unethical. Those who are devious may find it useful for increasing traffic… So what exactly is a ‘fanboy’? Fanboys (and often ‘fangirls’) are those individuals that are so totally devoted to a topic that it has reached the point of obsession. Their loyalty to the topic leads them to form strong opinions that can not be swayed. They disregard any differing opinions and are often hateful to those who disagree or argue with them. To illustrate - Star Wars, Star Trek and AGLOCO have a big fanboy base! You could also argue that a lot of A-list bloggers have a large group of fanboy followers.Their passion blinds their thinking…and this fact can be used to manipulate them into a traffic frenzy!

TIP 1: Write About Their Obsession

To get the fanboys to flood your site with traffic, you’ll first need to write a post about the topic that they’re in love with. This can be the most difficult part as you’ll still need to integrate it into the theme of your blog so that it doesn’t stand out as being contrived. For example, if your blog is about making money online and you want to target the Star Wars fanboys, you may want to consider posts such as “What Yoda Fans Taught Me About SEO” or “10 Reasons Why Star Wars Fans Ruined My Blog“.

TIP 2: Get Their Blood Pumping

The easiest way to get their blood flowing is to absolutely destroy their obsession. Writing about how stupid and juvenile their obsession is the most obvious and most overused way to do this. But you’ll be a bit smarter (and more evil) than that! How? By writing about how gosh darn fantastic the fans are!

Consider Star Trek fans - they have a reputation as being the geekiest of them all and they receive a lot of negative publicity regarding it. These fans are desperate for a little love! Write about how cool and hip they are and you’ll get their attention in no time. For example, to target the Star Trek fanboys on a fashion blog, a post entitled “Dress Me Up Scottie! Star Trek Uniforms Inspired Gucci?” would definitely arouse their curiousity!

TIP 3: Get Their Attention

Now that you’ve written the post, the hard work starts - promotion time! Obviously, we want to go to where the fanboys hang out and that means doing searches for the biggest blogs, forums and message boards related to the topic.

The key here is to get the fanboys to follow a link to your post without them knowing that you’re trying to do so. I see lots of bloggers on forums write, “Hey! Check out my post here…” only to be labeled as spammers. The trick? Become one of them! When registering for a forum or leaving a comment, give yourself a nice fanboy handle - something like YODA_LUVR113 or TREKGOD12 will usually suffice.

Next, when linking to your post, don’t appear as a spammer promoting your own site but as a fanboy letting the other fanboys know about the post. Try something fanboy sounding like, “So when will the new movie be out? I’ve heard it’s in production now. BTW, you guys should check out this post - it’s about how Chewbacca can help solve your credit card debt! LOL!”

Easy! Now just stand back and wait for your flood of traffic!

The best thing about the technique is that it focuses on a demographic that is usually quite web savvy and into tech/gadget orientated sites. Those characteristics also describe a lot of Digg users. Although sometimes the traffic generated from the fanboy forums isn’t huge, it only takes a few of them to Digg it to the front page and increase your blog’s visibility.

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