Comments on: The Day I Looked Forward to Casinos, Drugs, and Penises http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/the-day-i-looked-forward-to-casinos-drugs-and-penises/ Helping you learn more and do more with WordPress Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:32:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Blog Challenge: What Are Your Most Favorite Blog Post Failures « Lorelle on WordPress http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/the-day-i-looked-forward-to-casinos-drugs-and-penises/#comment-905856 Blog Challenge: What Are Your Most Favorite Blog Post Failures « Lorelle on WordPress Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:13:45 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/the-day-i-looked-forward-to-casinos-drugs-and-penises/#comment-905856 [...] The Day I Looked Forward to Casinos, Drugs, and Penises: I had grand hopes for this amusing little post that poked fun at the impact negative blogging can have on your blog to increase your blog’s traffic. It poked fun at the Digg Effect to spikes your blog traffic up. I also thought this post would get a lot of attention as few blog posts at the time featured the keywords casinos, drugs, and penises, really good attention-getters…I thought. [...] [...] The Day I Looked Forward to Casinos, Drugs, and Penises: I had grand hopes for this amusing little post that poked fun at the impact negative blogging can have on your blog to increase your blog’s traffic. It poked fun at the Digg Effect to spikes your blog traffic up. I also thought this post would get a lot of attention as few blog posts at the time featured the keywords casinos, drugs, and penises, really good attention-getters…I thought. [...]

]]> By: Blog Struggles: Recovering From a Traffic Spike « Lorelle on WordPress http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/the-day-i-looked-forward-to-casinos-drugs-and-penises/#comment-886922 Blog Struggles: Recovering From a Traffic Spike « Lorelle on WordPress Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:53:09 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/the-day-i-looked-forward-to-casinos-drugs-and-penises/#comment-886922 [...] Struggles: Recovering From a Traffic Spike In The Day I Looked Forward to Casinos, Drugs, and Penises, I discussed the after effects of a massive traffic spike: A few weeks ago, this blog was hopping [...] [...] Struggles: Recovering From a Traffic Spike In The Day I Looked Forward to Casinos, Drugs, and Penises, I discussed the after effects of a massive traffic spike: A few weeks ago, this blog was hopping [...]

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]]> By: I’m Winning the Battle Against Comment Spam « Lorelle on WordPress http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/the-day-i-looked-forward-to-casinos-drugs-and-penises/#comment-68334 I’m Winning the Battle Against Comment Spam « Lorelle on WordPress Fri, 10 Nov 2006 07:22:36 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/the-day-i-looked-forward-to-casinos-drugs-and-penises/#comment-68334 [...] The Day I Looked Forward to Casinos, Drugs, and Penises [...] [...] The Day I Looked Forward to Casinos, Drugs, and Penises [...]

]]> By: Lorelle on WordPress » One Year Anniversary Review: Comments on Comments http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/the-day-i-looked-forward-to-casinos-drugs-and-penises/#comment-29295 Lorelle on WordPress » One Year Anniversary Review: Comments on Comments Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:25:26 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/the-day-i-looked-forward-to-casinos-drugs-and-penises/#comment-29295 [...] Comments started to impact my self-esteem. If I wrote something that attracted a dozen comments, it was an adrenaline rush. Addictive. I wanted more. Then I’d get no comments for a week and feel ignored and slighted. No one cared. I’d then get excited about comment spam. It was a response, right? [...] [...] Comments started to impact my self-esteem. If I wrote something that attracted a dozen comments, it was an adrenaline rush. Addictive. I wanted more. Then I’d get no comments for a week and feel ignored and slighted. No one cared. I’d then get excited about comment spam. It was a response, right? [...]

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/the-day-i-looked-forward-to-casinos-drugs-and-penises/#comment-7527 Lorelle VanFossen Wed, 26 Apr 2006 05:55:08 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/the-day-i-looked-forward-to-casinos-drugs-and-penises/#comment-7527 Bertil, I got nothing from this article...yet. Anyone Digg it yet? Hee hee. A provocative title can get you points, but to really score, you got to have content content content! Bertil, I got nothing from this article…yet. Anyone Digg it yet? Hee hee.

A provocative title can get you points, but to really score, you got to have content content content!

]]> By: Bertil Gralvik http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/the-day-i-looked-forward-to-casinos-drugs-and-penises/#comment-7476 Bertil Gralvik Mon, 24 Apr 2006 23:01:01 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/the-day-i-looked-forward-to-casinos-drugs-and-penises/#comment-7476 Lorelle, this article surely has it all ;) You must let us know the height and width of the "five minute fame", you'll get from the provocative title and tags for this article. For the rest of it? Sensible as usual, and Ashly - some like it that way ;) Lorelle, this article surely has it all ;)
You must let us know the height and width of the “five minute fame”, you’ll get from the provocative title and tags for this article.

For the rest of it? Sensible as usual, and Ashly - some like it that way ;)

]]> By: Ashley http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/the-day-i-looked-forward-to-casinos-drugs-and-penises/#comment-7201 Ashley Thu, 20 Apr 2006 19:19:40 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/the-day-i-looked-forward-to-casinos-drugs-and-penises/#comment-7201 I was actually thinking about your popularity a lot right after I found you. Two years ago I was trying to put together a comprehensive (wide but shallow) guide to blogging. It's amazing how few "perfect" blogs there are. This is one of them. But at the same time I was pretty sure that you'd have fair to middling traffic. At best. Your stuff is too well-written, too balanced, too sensible, and too thorough. It could easily be a critically acclaimed text book. Readers don't want a quality diet. They say they do publicly but privately they seek the tabloids and the meanest, most one-sided op ed. Junk food and beer. Your list is right on too. If you wanna have a brutal, knock-down, drag-out with me, send me some notes and we can choreograph it with a nice arc starting in the fall semester and peaking around Christmas break. We'll be bigger than Drudge if we play it right. I was actually thinking about your popularity a lot right after I found you. Two years ago I was trying to put together a comprehensive (wide but shallow) guide to blogging. It’s amazing how few “perfect” blogs there are. This is one of them.

But at the same time I was pretty sure that you’d have fair to middling traffic. At best.

Your stuff is too well-written, too balanced, too sensible, and too thorough. It could easily be a critically acclaimed text book. Readers don’t want a quality diet. They say they do publicly but privately they seek the tabloids and the meanest, most one-sided op ed. Junk food and beer.

Your list is right on too. If you wanna have a brutal, knock-down, drag-out with me, send me some notes and we can choreograph it with a nice arc starting in the fall semester and peaking around Christmas break. We’ll be bigger than Drudge if we play it right.

]]> By: Ed Kohler http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/the-day-i-looked-forward-to-casinos-drugs-and-penises/#comment-7152 Ed Kohler Wed, 19 Apr 2006 21:33:37 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/the-day-i-looked-forward-to-casinos-drugs-and-penises/#comment-7152 Clearly, you're trying to sabatoge your own popularity by using a bulleted rather than numbered list. :-) Clearly, you’re trying to sabatoge your own popularity by using a bulleted rather than numbered list. :-)

]]> By: budgetdreams http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/the-day-i-looked-forward-to-casinos-drugs-and-penises/#comment-7137 budgetdreams Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:56:53 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/the-day-i-looked-forward-to-casinos-drugs-and-penises/#comment-7137 WOW!! I was thrilled to be mentioned!!! Hmmm, wonder if I can use some of those hits to cause another spike? I sure plan on trying!!! WOW!! I was thrilled to be mentioned!!! Hmmm, wonder if I can use some of those hits to cause another spike? I sure plan on trying!!!

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