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"Sexy" Sells - I have the Stats to Prove It

41 points by mootymoots 18y ago

tdavis 18y ago
We used to take the picture approach on one of our blogs because it helped traffic so much. Certain posts would include pictures of scantily-clad cheerleaders for some team that was involved in the post (the ones with under-boob were my favorite). That is, until one of our partner sites decided they were going to stop doing business with us if we didn't take them down. Moral: Be on the lookout for uptight suits ready to ruin your sexy selling!
coconutrandom 18y ago
So you got more views, which is nice, but I'm also interested in downloads, feedback, usage, etc.. Perhaps the people who clicked through were disappointed by the lack of actual "Sexy" and instead you just used more bandwidth with no real conversion difference. Not hating on your combo box, it looks quite polished.
- mootymoots 18y ago
  It's not my combo box... I simply linked to a developers plugin.
  - coconutrandom 18y ago
    gotcha
josefresco 18y ago
Expect "Sexy Top 10 Lists' to dominate Digg/Reddit for the next few weeks.
icefox 18y ago
Hmm, the article title has the word sexy in it. To vote up or not...
wvl 18y ago
ob correlation != causation Another hypothesis may be that the "Sexy Combo" box is the only one where a picture of the opened drop down does not appear, necessitating a visit to the actual site to see what it looks like in operation.
- mootymoots 18y ago
  Seeing as my traffic for this article has gone x5 over previous "popular" articles on HN with more points in a faster time, I'm pretty sure the word "Sexy" has an impact... :-)
JMiao 18y ago
this was the exact thinking behind our decision to become thesixtynine.
subbu 18y ago
This claim may not be entirely true. I think people clicked on this link because they couldn't see what it might look like when the dropdown is completely open. This plugin in question shows just the initial state of the dropdown. Whereas pictures of other plugins show how they look after user clicks on it i.e when the dropdown list is completely displayed.
bianco 18y ago
Sexy sells? OK, but why stop there? You can get more and faster with a bank robbery. I don't understand you people.
- trapper 18y ago
  Watch out! It's a slipperly slope sexy to grand larceny.
  - bianco 18y ago
    You sure!!

41 points by mootymoots 18y ago

We used to take the picture approach on one of our blogs because it helped traffic so much. Certain posts would include pictures of scantily-clad cheerleaders for some team that was involved in the post (the ones with under-boob were my favorite). That is, until one of our partner sites decided they were going to stop doing business with us if we didn't take them down. Moral: Be on the lookout for uptight suits ready to ruin your sexy selling!

coconutrandom 18y ago

So you got more views, which is nice, but I'm also interested in downloads, feedback, usage, etc.. Perhaps the people who clicked through were disappointed by the lack of actual "Sexy" and instead you just used more bandwidth with no real conversion difference. Not hating on your combo box, it looks quite polished.

mootymoots 18y ago
It's not my combo box... I simply linked to a developers plugin.
- coconutrandom 18y ago
  gotcha

josefresco 18y ago

Expect "Sexy Top 10 Lists' to dominate Digg/Reddit for the next few weeks.

icefox 18y ago

Hmm, the article title has the word sexy in it. To vote up or not...

wvl 18y ago

ob correlation != causation Another hypothesis may be that the "Sexy Combo" box is the only one where a picture of the opened drop down does not appear, necessitating a visit to the actual site to see what it looks like in operation.

mootymoots 18y ago
Seeing as my traffic for this article has gone x5 over previous "popular" articles on HN with more points in a faster time, I'm pretty sure the word "Sexy" has an impact... :-)

JMiao 18y ago

this was the exact thinking behind our decision to become thesixtynine.

subbu 18y ago

This claim may not be entirely true. I think people clicked on this link because they couldn't see what it might look like when the dropdown is completely open. This plugin in question shows just the initial state of the dropdown. Whereas pictures of other plugins show how they look after user clicks on it i.e when the dropdown list is completely displayed.

bianco 18y ago

Sexy sells? OK, but why stop there? You can get more and faster with a bank robbery. I don't understand you people.

trapper 18y ago
Watch out! It's a slipperly slope sexy to grand larceny.
- bianco 18y ago
  You sure!!