Thanksgiving has come and gone, today is Cyber-Monday, so I figured I’d get in the holiday spirit with a quick post covering 5 easy ways to get some holiday clicks.

1. Personal Rant!  - Seriously,  just talk and talk about day to day holiday related junk, a funny story or two, worded properly can make a difference when it comes to getting first time visitors. Anyone remember snow in Rio Grande Valley on December 25, 2004 and how much fun it was?

2. Think local! - I cant stress how much you should always try to localize your blog if you’re a small time blogger.  From the ‘Candlelight Posada’ at Archer Park in McAllen, to the Christmas Street Parade on South Padre Island. THINK LOCAL and BLOG ABOUT IT.

3. BANG! - If your selling something, try to capitalize on this holiday rush and toss in some free services or products and so on…

4. Use the mailing list! - At one point or another most blogs and websites end up with a nice e-mailing list, use it this holiday season to simply wish then a happy whatever they celebrate and of course… remind then about what you have to offer.

5. Non-e-mailing list. - A nice piece of old-school paper goes a long way. Consider sending actual greeting cards to current and potential clients.  Also try and make them feel personal, I’m sure everyone has enough crap mailed to them everyday.

So I was reading some news at KRGV.com [a while back] and while reading about a swimmer who drowned I noticed something before closing the tab. The ad… inviting everyone to Enjoy South Padre Island.  So I laughed… until I realized it wasn’t THAT funny.

As you can see… not the best ad for that particular story, so I decided to play around and even took a quick look at the page source. The ad’s just rotate, which brought up yet another question, if it would have been a smart-ad based on the page content and keywords. Nothing would have changed. I bet news sites across the world deal with random weirdness like this. Hmmm… I’m done ranting.