That age old question... I have not heard anyone ask the question "how do I get one million page views?" for quite some time until a friend asked via Facebook Chat earlier today - and yes it was a Cryptocurrency related question as my friend is writing a piece for quite a large financial website - as it is his first such large project, as he should, he is gathering as much knowledge as possible... the answer is - both simple and not so simple...

In terms of authoring content I can go back a few years - this is what I had learned way back when Google decided to punish what they deemed as 'Content Mills', these being websites serving content written by authors from various genres - some where huge websites, that had paid writers of content via revenue share to page views and bonuses. It was a Lord it up time ten to fifteen years ago on the Interwebs if you had a knack for content writing and churning out articles of good quality day in day out. Good content writers could earn quite easily $1,500 to $2,000 per month and start slowly ditching their regular jobs - great writers could see some fantastic earning potential and pocket $2,000 plus with extra revenue from commissioned articles which could be paid quite handsomely I can tell you.

However we then get into the territory of the big gun authors, those that have amassed thousands or even millions of followers and engaged readers - these are usually writers that have a niche, already have status such as celebrities and news reporters, musicians and many more... and as today has progressed with technology we now see the rise of social media influencers, who can regularly mount up one million views within a day or two, just for saying hi with a photo attached - reference any big social media network - we have all seen them. 

For the main going up against the big guns is pretty much an impossible task when it comes to writing that article that generates an enthusiastic one million plus pages views - this is pretty much the not so simple part, these are the types of authors you would look to as inspiration to improve your own work and highlight quality.

The simplest way to getting one million page views for authored content is what you would endear the word 'luck' to. Why luck? 

Now unless you have already magically amassed a huge following via spamming Nutter... sorry I mean Twitter, and not getting banned for doing so... being a lucky sod and getting a lucky break in the search engines and your own savvy promotions - one million page views is not going to happen over night, but brings me nicely onto a story about one article that I wrote about 10-years ago for Yahoo!

I had just put my laptop down one particular night, it was quite late on the West Coast of the USA, Paid TV adverts were being shown - one particular advert grabbed my attention - a guy with the name of Russ Dalby had created one of these get rich quick gigs in the world of Options Trading - the advert was full of those people that had already accumulated vast sums of dollars using Russ Dalbys' system - although this advert was also one of those that were sketchy on info, and required you to purchase a CD, I think it was around $40 at the time. 

For some reason my mind engaged into investigating Russ Dalby for the next few days and purchasing the CD - the very same day the CD arrived, recorded delivery, I started receiving the bombardment of telephone calls and spam emails inviting me to take a course for $4000 - yer right... exactly! 

Let's cut this down... I decided to write an article 'Is Russ Dalbys' Options As Seen On TV a Scam?' This I managed to plot and write within 24-hours, admittedly I had been that attached to writing the piece and caring about what I had been trying to convey, without being malicious or erroneous in any way. I did my research... made sure I didn't slander (very important) and left readers to form their own opinion... Lol it was a scam in my opinion... But hey-ho past is but the past. 

This one article smashed one million page views within 48-hours and went on to earn me regular income for several months. Just this one article - in total somewhere around 17-million views were achieved with that article, this snowballed onto future articles of many of which I had plucked from the obscurity of Paid TV advertising late at night - Monster Energy made a fortune from my nightly ventures into 'Is Paid TV a Scam?' 

The knock on effect was many future articles had regularly achieved over one million page views. However... this is a huge however... ten years ago there had not been the huge levels of competition for traffic to website that we see today - a million page views you could say was as easy as getting one thousand views today. There is a heck of a lot of competition out there, especially in the Cryptocurrency World - a few years ago I did author a few articles of quality that did particularly well at another website over the course of a few months... But as I said times have changed hugely with Internet habits, audiences and the genres themselves - popularity and trends change all the time - jumping onto something quickly and throwing out content because it is for example a new Altcoin, will not cut it - the piece has to be special, a niche, a trend, current, and quality - there us a lot of emphasis on website popularity - for example to grow an audience and author base that Yahoo! touted in the guise of 'Associated Content' took a few years to build before big things happened - then Google had to ruin the party - removing the Google Adverts and censoring Search Engine Results via massive algorithm changes... another thing you must try to keep ahead of - search results. 

Why did Google do this? 

Two main reasons, one being thousand if not millions of spammers started to hit content serving websites, also many spam websites had popped up cheating Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) - so Google purged, and it purged - killing off the original content serving websites such as Associated Content, Helium and many others. 

The second being the plain old bratty spoiled kid... The Great Search Engine Wars of old. 

Look you do not have to be overly grammatically correct, as long as you put effort into your content and create quality, long or short... There is absolutely no reason not to grab one million page views, especially here at PublishOx as things progress - you may have seen a few of your articles in the search engines, I have, and quite high up the ladder to. 

Hit the comments if you have had high page views and wish to share. 

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