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I’m relatively new to blogging but that doesn’t mean I can’t get decent hits on my blog. Recently I posted a story on Sim City coming out for the iPhone. In Photoshop I mocked up a simple and clever photo of what Sim City could look like on the iPhone along with some text. The post took me about 10 minutes to make in total.

The good people at 9to5mac.com liked the picture and featured it on their website while linking back to mine. My daily hits shot up from around 35 views/day to 250 views/day. Sure it only lasted 3 days and they’re back to normal again but for those three days I drew a lot of traffic into my site, viewers who could potentially click ads or subscribe to my RSS feed. I learned that creating witty images are easy ways to draw in hits to your blog.