I just wanted to say, because I did a bunch of blogging recently about how you can drive traffic deliberately by picking fights, and did it while driving traffi

I just wanted to say, because I did a bunch of blogging recently about how you can drive traffic deliberately by picking fights, and did it while driving traffic deliberately by picking some fights: in the past I was getting these occasionally 10K+ pageview days just by being me (which is small compared to the 50K+ these guys are talking about), and then sort of either graduated or devolved (depending on your frame of reference) to getting similar numbers deliberately. Basically I figured out what was happening, out of curiousity, and once I had figured it out, that meant I then had the ability to do it deliberately. So now, sometimes, I do. I think the "tribal aversion of engineers to marketing" thing is very valid - being able to drive traffic is useful, and engineers seem to think that building systems that reward driving traffic (such as Google) makes you a better person than using such a system successfully (if you want to make money with Google, you're going to need to drive some traffic). It's such an arbitrary thing. If the system is worth building then it must be worth using too.