Want to Increase Your Blog Stats? Add Sex, Sex, Sex
December 6, 2009 at 7:02 PM 4 comments
UPDATED below.
Last night I put up three posts. One was titled, “XXX Rachel Uchitel XXX” (Uchitel is one of Tiger Woods’ alleged mistresses), one was titled “XXX Tiger Woods XXX,” and one was titled “XXX Bill Clinton XXX Hillary Clinton XXX.” (All three have since been taken down.) In the body of the posts I explained that I was doing a little experiment to see if my stats changed with the addition of some sexual ah, enticement.
I was motivated to conduct this “experiment” by the number of posts involving sex that appear on the “political blog,” the Huffington Post. Who knew that adding some X’s would have such an impact:
A graph of my stats as of 8:14 p.m. ET yesterday:
And a graph of my stats as of 6:41 p.m. ET today:
So, I guess the lesson is that if you’re a gigantic blog like the Huffington Post, a cable “news” channel like Fox News (see FoxNewsPorn), or an itty bitty blog out there in bazillions-of-them-bloggerland, and you’re looking for a way — any way – to increase your stats, add some SEX!
UPDATE @ 7:54 p.m. ET: Thanks to my friend and former colleague, Ellen at the News Hounds, I’m reminded of the five months I spent in 2005 documenting how Neil Cavuto, Fox’s “business news” honcho, used sex, sex, sex to satiate his viewers. (That post was included in the book by Joseph Amann and Tom Breuer. (2007) “Fair and Balanced, My Ass!“ New York City: Nation Books.)
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Ellen | December 6, 2009 at 7:46 PM
So true, Melanie. Remember this post from 41/2 years ago?
http://www.newshounds.us/2005/06/28/sex_porn_the_fox_news_way.php
It’s almost always in the top 5 entry pages on News Hounds.
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Say It Ain't So Already | December 6, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Ellen – Thanks for reminding me about that post. It took a long time to put together — blew my mind that Cavuto kept on keepin’ on — so I’m glad it’s still being read.
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Judy | December 7, 2009 at 5:26 PM
And don’t forget the right-wing sex with mules post that Ellen had that generated thousands of hits.
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Ellen | December 20, 2009 at 11:55 PM
It’s still right up there, higher than the mule.
http://sitemeter.com/?a=s&s=s23newshounds&r=37
It’s almost always in the top 5.
Same password and user name as before.