Halloween has passed and we are rapidly sliding into the holiday season. Halloween is my favorite holiday by far so I’m kind of meh about the rest of them.
This week I have Facebook, WordPress themes, Star Wars, cargo ships and more.
5 Most Popular (Anti) Social Articles Written This Year
Here are the 5 most popular articles that I’ve written this year. This is according to google analytics and is based on pageviews. I selected the time period January 1, 2009 to April 20, 2009 for top content and then scanned the list.
Some of my most viewed articles were written last year. I have skipped over those and am only including the popular ones from 2009.
Google Page Rank – A Sudden 3 Point Drop!!!
I’m not that bright
I will be the first to admit that I am ignorant about SEO, backlinks, page rank and all of these important things that assist in getting indexed by google and a good position in search engine results. My friend answers the occasional question I have, but I didn’t know anything about this sort of thing until September when Ajith wrote, Google Page Rank update – DollarShower.com is PR3 now!, and I discovered that I had a PR3. I then became slightly more interested in the topic and became a regular reader of his site. I also started emailing him questions. I also installed the Firefox add-on Search Status, which tells you the PageRank and Alexa Rank of any site I am visiting.
And much like Twitter, rankings don’t really matter to me. But I liked being a PR3 and was hoping to move up to 4. And PageRank seems to matter from a monetization point of view and I suppose it gives a site credibility.
Using Controversy to Attract More Blog Comments – Does it Work?
Frequently, being controversial is recommended as a way to get more traffic and comments to your blog.
Last week, I decided to try this and see what happened. Now what I posted was not ALL that controversial. It wasn’t as if I was discussing gay marriage or taxes. I did, however, feign outrage at a direct message being paraphrased publicly. Well, I was a little annoyed when it happened and ranted at my friend Jim, but I wasn’t outraged or particularly offended. After finishing my rant, I was slightly amused and decided it would make a good topic for an article.
