How to Get Millions of Blog Views (Someone Made $80K/Month Using This)
Fascinating. The author discovered this by paying attention to their own habits: since they enjoy reading and frequently run out of books, they naturally search for the best books in each category, typing something like “best [category] books of the year.” It hit them that others probably do the same thing, so they checked Google Trends and indeed found a steady rise in search volume starting mid-year, peaking at year-end, then holding strong for a while. They tested this on their own blog and confirmed that articles with “year” in the title do get more traffic. So they simply mirrored their own search behavior in crafting titles and content.
The author also shared another case study where this exact method was used to promote Amazon products.
In April 2016, Luqman Khan launched 10beasts.com, a site dedicated to listing the best products across different categories for a given year. In the first three months, he earned a total of just $200. Then, in July, things took off—he made nearly $5,000 that month. Five months later, in December, he raked in $80,000 in a single month.
Pretty impressive. (And they didn’t just stop at “year”—they also factored in the month.)
This is a strategy worth considering for marketing: pair the year with an extreme adjective, a category, and a product keyword.
Here are some extreme adjectives you can use:
• Best
• Greatest
• Fastest
• Newest
• Oldest
• Strangest
• Cheapest
• Most Expensive
• Easiest
• Unbelievable
• Top-rated
• Shortest
• Tallest
• Largest
• Smallest
…And so on.