When It’s Time To Change…Again

Hello friends.

Today is the first anniversary of this blog. I’ve enjoyed it, I’ve ignored it, I’ve used and abused it. I thank you for the interaction, and the support. Now…I will be making some changes around here very shortly, and if you’ve been reading regularly or have subscribed, you may want to stop now.

After the surprising increase in traffic during my most recent Google Garbage™ experiment, I’ve decided for the time being to spend some of this blog’s precious PageRank on more such specious pursuits.

The fact is, posting a bunch of nonsense is good for business. I supposed the television networks figured this out decades ago, didn’t they?

Putting up posts on hot topics and/or “long-tail” niche keywords has made me a pretty nice little chunk of change over the past few months, here and elsewhere. Apparently this is how kids can make money these days. Since I don’t particularly have the time to do much else, that’s what I’ll be using this blog for, at least for the foreseeable future.

This is just to announce the change to the handful of readers who have stuck around through the garbage posts. If I have anything interesting to say or show, I’ll probably post it at my Tumblr blog.

Again, I suggest you unsubscribe and stop reading now, or you’ll find yourself reading about car radiator repair, rapid drug detox, natural snoring remedies, home surveillance cameras and Bowling Green State University.

Thanks all!

Google Garbage™ Post-mortem 2

Experiment #2 is complete, and the results were even more absurd than last time.

This time I created 20 posts based on the latest upward-trending Google keywords, and put in even less effort to make them anything but cursory. In addition, I slapped AdSense ads above and below the posts to see if I could catch any of the visitors on the way out.

Though I’m choosing these keywords at random from Google’s list of trends, last time I happened to pick a topic with legs (as it were), “Amanda Knox”. Though the web was full of info about this young woman, my post of pics was enough to triple my traffic. And as new developments occurred in her murder trial, my inane post returned to the top slot in my traffic reports.

This time I didn’t have that golden combination of sex and death working for me. Most of the hot keywords were pretty mundane, with the possible exception of the gay porn-star cat burglar, and the obligatory “Tiger Woods Affair photos” post, which continued to be popular even after the photos themselves disappeared. Perhaps if I could have been bothered to host them myself, this would have been a bit more popular.

In any case, I struck gold nonetheless. Unpredictably, this recipe for “Crack Pie” has proved unbelievably popular, generating about 8000 visitors in two days. As I write this at 5:00 pm on Thursday, Google Analytics says I’ve has over 6500 visitors so far today alone. The post has also been linked to by several prominent sites, which will no doubt increase my profile immensely in terms of Google. In fact, I’ve already seen my rankings improve for my primary keywords, thanks to this ridiculous little exercise.

As for the ads, only 1-2% of visitors actually click on them, which isn’t spectacular. However, with every day that goes by, my time putting together the posts becomes more profitable. Right now that time may have netted $10 – 15/hour, but by tomorrow that could be $20 or $25. By next year, who knows?

So should I do it again? That’s something to think about. It’s certainly not making the internet a better place, but I’m not sure that’s my job.

Nobody dreams of growing up to run a junkyard…

Tiger Woods Affair Photos

Tiger Woods Affair Photos

Tiger Woods Affair Photos

Here are complete list of alleged mistresses of Tiger Woods with their photos:

Rachel Uchitel	Jaimee Grubbs	Kalika Moquin
Jamie Jungers	Mindy Lawton	Cori Rist
Holly Sampson	Julie Postle	Unidentified Mistress No. 9
Unidentified Mistress No. 10	Veronica Siwik-Daniels a.k.a Joslyn James

What is this post? See here.