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Continued from here. Whoring whoring whoring. Whore whore whore. Jennifer Hawkins.

From Pejmanesque, April 30, 2003:

Eugene Volokh has won wide and deserved acclaim for his post giving bloggers advice on how to make their blogs successful. His advice is sound, appropriate, and entirely accurate, and should be followed by all those who aspire to enjoy the kind of success that The Volokh Conspiracy has so deservedly enjoyed.

Of course, Eugene did forget to add one bit of advice: Write about sex.

Seriously....Sex obviously sells. It sells quite well at that. It always has. It always will. The more you blog about sex, the more readers you will attract.

So if you really want the traffic to flow your way, blog about sex. You will always find a willing audience. Always.

Xrlq continued the thought on May 1, 2003:

I’m not a prude, but in my view, the world wide web has already got more
sex than it needs. Besides, Google isn’t all that good at figuring out what you are blogging about anyway. I’ve gotten all kinds of weird hits. So for those who don’t want to blog about sex, but do want to generate the traffic associated with it, I suggest writing about mundane topics but using words likely to turn up in an oversexed user’s Google search anyway....

Write about some time you had to go down to the bank in Santa Monica to
pay a bill that was due (Google search: “monica bill go down")

But I tend to like the suggestions of a blogger named Richard Giles (no, not THAT Richard Giles). On June 23, 2003, Giles wrote this (see excerpts):

Blogs are individual, each one being an outlet in some fashion for the owner. Some are diaries of personal accounts, others for news....some creators are not after attracting record amounts of hits, after all, who's to say their web server will cope with the traffic....Still, its wonderful to think that what you have to say is valued by the world. Without some type of advertising your unlikely to end up with a single hit....

The most important technique for attracting an audience is your Blog's uniqueness and the level of interest it holds for the reader....Personal diaries, unless you are incredibly creative or an amazingly interesting individual, are unlikely to gain much popularity beyond friends, family and the occasional voyeur straying past for a quick glimpse of teenage webcams. News sites, without interesting and unique information are likely to have the same undramatic effect, begging to become the latest casualty in the 404 Not Found memorial cemetery. This isn't to suggest that these sites are bad, and unwelcome. Quite the opposite, since that is what makes the Internet and Blogs such a great culture. We publish what we want. It's just very unlikely that you will sustain any degree of notoriety and large number of site hits....

Being involved in a community means you too should create links. Creating links will encourage linkage in a wonderful form of Karma tag generation....

You will also find that discussing popular current affairs will have a greater impact on who comes to your site from Google. A great example of increasing hits to Blogs, though perhaps through dubious means, is the post at Robert Loch's Internet Marketing Strategy Weblog. In April 2002 Loch posted a story to his Blog about Anna Kournikova's legal action against Penthouse for photos that they published claiming they were her naked on a beach. After several days a second post summed up the impact.

Google sends me 1000 Anna Kournikova fans in the space of 4 hours....