Strategic Trolling

Hi, my name is David and I'm a Strategic Troll.

I have been submitting random comments on anything from property prices, the urban sprawl, political correctness, the latest shocking information about a celebrity, breaking news.. anything and everything with a "Be the first to comment" link. I'm not addicted, I'm strategic. I'm a regular.

I have earned the respect of content editors of leading internet news websites across the country by replying quickly, accurately, on topic, no spelling errors and with punctuation perfect presentation. It's hard because sometimes you want to go hard. But don't. Let me tell you why.

Firstly, even if you care, try not to care. Most of the subject matter "commented on" means nothing to me. What I am doing is accumulating 'credibility points' with editors. They have a database, they know my email address and my regular moniker. They note whether my comments have credibility and are on topic.

When the time is right and an ecommerce article is available for comment - I STRIKE.

When there is an article even remotely related to ecommerce, you will see the Fashion Addict name and our website address as the "location" associated with the article. This is when all of my strategic trolling comes to the fore. I get published in 3 minutes. I am known. I am trusted.

Who wants free advertising and who wants it now? Add a comment regularly to 'any' topical article without offence or slander, then wait for your "on topic opportunity" to comment about your business, then... - STRIKE!

I recently added a comment directly related to ecommerce and noted FashionAddict.com.au as the "location". Our traffic spiked for a very short period, I'm talking 3 hours of peak traffic. 1 month later I was able to directly correlate traffic-to-sales using Google Analytics and discovered the first points of contact came directly from a comment I made on theage.com.au and subsequently smh.com.au. The sales generated were higher than average for that period of the day.

Strategic Trolling. Could this be one of the most cost effective ways to drive traffic to your website?

Are you up for it?

Over to you.