Fake Things for Publicity

I was reading this post about faking getting hacked. Why do it? Well for publicity and some traffic obviously. Everyone’s going to be talking about it and some even linking to you. Not a bad idea. A pretty damn good one actually.

But, then I thought about the long-term effects. People are gonna figure out later on and some of them will hate on you. And what about your readers/visitors/users? Is it okay to lie to them? But, how could we take advantage of this? I wouldn’t obviously do it on the sites I care about. But, how about doing it on the sites which we made for money (I don’t have any, BTW)? That wouldn’t be such a bad idea.

Wait, don’t just fake that you’ve been hacked. Try doing some of these shit. But, like Daniel (the blogger at DailyBlogTips) mentioned it will only work if you’re at least semi-popular.

• Site under investigation by the FBI
• You are dying a horrible death (ex: cancer)
• You’re selling the site for some good dough ($$$$)
• Your site was part of a research (ex: I don’t have one. My head hurts. You think!)
• Your site getting sponsored by Google or Microsoft.
• You’re actually an A-list blogger (like Darren Rose?) who is just blogging with a different tone

People will give you ideas, and some of them are going to be good. But, don’t forget its the web. If you can get the info then someone else can too (unless someone gave you the idea on Messenger). What I’m trying to say is that take people’s ideas and get inspired. Don’t just do what they said. Come up with your own idea, so you don’t do what a bunch of other people are doing.