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I've maintained a private, unpublished family blog at Typepad for years, but a few weeks ago I began starting to blog publicly on a separate blog (ie publish my blog to search engines). On August 4 I moved the blog from Typepad to Wordpress.

This is what my traffic has been like since I moved to Wordpress:

Aug 4 - 59 views
Aug 5 - 69 views
Aug 6 - 43 views
Aug 7 - 63 views
Aug 8 - 57 views
Aug 9 - 627 views
Aug 10 - 663 views

Late last night I did an entry on the Joyce Bernann McKinney Mormon sex slave scandal, including the press photo of her posing nude. And lo and behold, apparently boobs will bring at least 8 times the traffic you normally get to your blog. Most of the hits are coming from people looking at the Wordpress tags "Joyce McKinney" and "Bernann McKinney."

I'm not bragging about those numbers; when I set up my blog I expected maybe 10 hits a day. I know other personal blogs get like, ten times that much traffic a day when they don't exploit pictures of naked women. And I know almost all of the people who clicked on it have zero interest in anything else on my blog.

But it's still kind of funny.

Since no one cares about the effect of boobs on blog traffic except me, from now on I'll be doing several posts in this thread a day to inflate my posting numbers. These posts will consist largely of funny but meaningless pictures and other material. Starting with this:

Here is a haiku that I wrote in eleventh grade:

If my hands grew roots
I would get stuck to the ground
Which would piss me off

You can tell I was a real deep thinker.

LOL. Next time I do a piece on Foucault I'm putting up a picture of an erudite looking hottie [meaning~glasses] with the caption "Foucault's A damned Genius".

Once people go to the blog forum and see it, wonder how many seconds it will take for them to click to something else?

Okay, Bond, today's is just for you

Alright I'm trying out Jack's theory about putting up hotties. I put a pic of the beach volleyball team in their bikini hottie glory as part of my olympic commentary, so maybe that'll score me a few hits.

Alright Bond! Let me know if your traffic increases.

I used to DM for a persistent world RP server in the game Neverwinter Nights. Here's what my DM avatar looked like:



If you don't get it I'm not gonna explain it to you.

Since we seem to be on a superhero kick now...

My views haven't gone up much, still around 50 a day. I guess some blogs have it and some don't.