Just got November page view figures for this here blog, and we had our biggest month ever. Thanks everybody, and thanks especially to Erin Manning, whose weeklong shepherding of Crunchy Con helped push us over the top.
You'll love this, though: know what the No. 1 most viewed post in November was? The one titled "Ron Paul vs. Britney the Slutty Islamofascist." For true! That post had nothing whatsoever to do with Dr. Paul, Mother Spears, Sluts or Islamofascists. It was an experiment testing out something I'd been told by the online team here at the News. They encourage us bloggers to use terms in our subject lines that search engines are likely to pick up on easily. All those oblique, arty, allusive subject lines I like are terrible for getting hits from search engines. Not "Ron Paul vs. Britney the Slutty Islamofascist." And not the subject line of this post. Onward and upward!
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Congrats Mr. Dreher & Mrs. Manning!
But how about, "Victoria's Secret Conspiracy Theory Two-headed Chocolate Crunch Weight-Loss Terrorist"
...or is that over the top? ;)
It amuses me that you'd use such a title. It isn't surprising that you'd get hits in excess of the post's merit though. Technorati doesn't show a long enough blurb to clarify whether or not a post is on-topic for its title.
You mean a title with Jesus and conservative doesn't get it?
As least with "bark" you'd get dog and tree nuts.
It's always interesting to look at the search terms that people were using when they find my blog. Sometimes I just have to go "huh?"
can't wait to read the "Monks Gone Mild" posting
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