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Creating controversy is a great way to get noticed on the web because its very nature will cause a stir and can drive a lot of traffic to your website.

There is always something on the net that a lot of people are talking about and is very popular. Find it and write something about it that goes against the grain of what everyone else is saying about the particular topic.

It can be about almost anything as long as it fits in with the general topic of your website. Don’t dispute something about Internet Marketing if your website is about tropical fish because it will hurt the relevance of your website.

One of the best places to find popular topics is in the blogosphere where word about something popular spreads very quickly. If a big named blogger wrote about it, it will spread like wildfire throughout the blogosphere. Bloggers love to write about things that are really popular. Take advantage of this medium to find some articles that can be made controversial.

Keep in mind that when writing about something that goes against the grain of the masses is that what you are disputing are opinions and not facts. It’s impossible to dispute a fact and you will come off looking like an idiot if you try to dispute a fact. Stick with topics that you can’t possibly be proven wrong.

Not only is the blogosphere a great place to find topics that can be made controversial it is also a great place to write your controversial post. Because bloggers run in the same circles as other bloggers your controversial post will be more likely found in the blogosphere and the very people that are talking about the topic are more likely to respond and add fire to your controversial post.

I remember an article a while back that eMOMS AT HOME jumped on this and ran with it. That one statement by Aaron Wall supplied plenty of ammunition to write a controversial post. Maybe Aaron was taken out of context which really doesn’t matter because there was no way one way or the other that Wendy could be proven wrong in what she had written.

I can tell you that her post created a huge stir with not only the mommy bloggers but with a lot of male bloggers as well. Everyone loves a good fight and everyone wants to join in no matter who they are.

As you can see in this true life controversial example that it doesn’t always have to be about something that everyone is talking about. If you find something that someone says that can be exploited you can make it controversial like Wendy did.

You want to go after well known people or topics when you write something controversial because it won’t hold much weight otherwise. The bigger the name or the topic, the better response you will get.

Writing something that is controversial will not only get you noticed by people it can also get you noticed with the major search engines as well. If approached right you could end up on the top of the search engines.

I just finished reading over at the wordpress blog that the 2.1.1 version of wordpress has been compromised by a cracker.

Anyone who has downloaded this version over the last 4 days has a cracked version of the software. If you have downloaded this version within the past 4 days you need to get over to wordpress and download the patched version 2.1.2.

Wordpress has deemed the entire release as dangerous. You can download the patched version here. http://wordpress.org/download and you can get the full story here. http://wordpress.org/development/2007/03

Get over to wordpress and download the patched release and then post about it on your blog. The more bloggers that post about it hopefully will minimize the damage that something like this can do.

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The nicest thing about having a blog is that you can do so many things to help make it successful. Here are 5 that you should do from the very beginning to get your blog going in the right direction. The five tips here are what all bloggers should be doing. I’m surprised at how many don’t.

1. I know that this may sound obvious but I want to remind everyone of its importance. I have been to so many blogs that really have a lack of this that I feel that it needs to be said.

Your blog should have lots of good quality content. You need to have a fair amount of written content on your blog before anyone ever sees it. If you send people to your blog and it has just one or two posts on it you can bet that those visitors will never come back. The last thing that you want to do is send people to a blog and have nothing to read. What good is a blog without content.

2. Register your blog with technoratti and make sure that you claim it after registering it. Technoratti is a great tool for any blog because they will notify the search engines by pinging them when your blog has been updated. You will also get some decent traffic directly from their site as well. Bloggers are always looking for new sources of information and a lot of bloggers do run searches on technoratti.

3. Blog often. The more you blog the more people you will attract to your blog site. I try to blog everyday. It doesn’t always work out that way but for the most part I do post on a daily basis. If you can blog every day or even several times a day you will get much better results than if you only blogged occasionally.

4. Post on as many like minded blog sites as you possibly can. I try to post on blog sites that are highly ranked because higher ranked blogs will have a higher volume of traffic. Other blog sites can drive some immediate traffic to your blog.

I’ve noticed that a lot of bloggers use cutesy screen names. I prefer not to do that. To me it’s better for people to know you by name because that’s what you are trying to do when posting to other blogs, is to make a name for yourself along with your blog. How are people going to know who you are if you don’t tell them?

5. Get as many back links to your blog as you possibly can. There are so many ways that you can do this for free. Posting to other blog sites would be one, submit to free directories, and submit articles to article sites, just to mention a few.

The more inbound links that you get to your blog the more people it will drive to your blog not to mention that it will help you rank better with the search engines and in turn send even more traffic your way.