the paris hilton effect
I’ve started this weblog a few weeks ago knowing that only a handful of people would actually read it (after I condition my friendship to that, of course.) Then, I posted my previous remarks regarding the paris hilton “tragedy” and what do you know… got a considerable amount of traffic. Actually, if you search for “paris hilton contacts” on yahoo, I’m no. 12!
I’d really hate for my name to even be remotely associated with that airhead, but who cares, really?
So I learned a few things from this:
1. timing is everything. had I have written the post a day later, I would have gotten zip.
2. people do not leave comments (I got none); or alternatively, people saw that there are no steamy pictures or a list of celebrity contacts and left without reading a word. I prefer to think that they did read my witty post, so don’t burst my bubble.
3. celebrity bashing is fun. apparently,it’s very popular too.
btw, would it kill anyone to leave some comments?
arg.
February 24th, 2005 at 10:28 pm
now that you are a celebrity, can we bash you?
February 26th, 2005 at 1:52 pm
It’s just a matter of statistics. Get enough visitors (time+content) will yield a percentage of commenters. Your Paris Hilton visitors were probably not looking for the content you offered - just as well.
Nice blog so far you should get popular quickly.
As you link to others and add comments Google will reward you.
(Ripples blog has some good insights into this phenomena.)
I also like the Chinese restaurant post - I once new a terrific Chinese restaurant in Palo Alto (circa 1973) - probably long gone.