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Why Arrington blogs about porn
- jgrahamc 17y agoI have the same situation on my blog. I get consistent hits from people looking for porn because I've mentioned porn a couple of times. I've been sorely tempted to serve special ads just for them...
- Jem 17y agoLikewise, although in my case it's often unintentional! I wrote a satirical post on the elderly called "Old People Suck" and spent 3 years trying to get rid of regular searchers looking for porn containing, well... use your imagination.
- chanux 17y agoWhy we worry about Arrington?
- erlanger 17y agoPredictable, content-insensitive comment. Plenty of people have a problem with Zed Shaw, or Joel Spolsky, or Jeff Atwood, or Michael Arrington, or ___________, but it's really tedious to hear the same whining with every story that comes across this site.
- mdg 17y agoi actually plan on writing my own SO clone this weekend with my own compiler that i plan on releasing under the GPL so its funny you mention that
- TomOfTTB 17y agoI'm not disputing his advice which will probably work but I have to say SEO people seem shadier and shadier to me. SEO started out as a way to make your existing content turn up for people who were searching for it but now it's turned into "blog about this because people search a lot for it" and that seems wrong to me. I guess it's the same instinct that's eaten every other industry (see TV and marketing execs) it's just sad to see the web going down that road.
- patio11 17y agothat seems wrong to me Wait, what? I spend significant effort and money on content creation. Decisions as to what content to produce next are often driven by user suggestions or analytics data -- i.e. "Oh, it looks like a lot of people are searching for baby shower bingo cards, I guess I should write some baby shower bingo cards, because then more people will find my site and this will make me money." So people get the content they want and I get money... tell me where we're going wrong here, again? Would it be somehow cleaner if, rather than using evidence as to what my customers enjoy, I just put my finger to the wind and guessed? I did that for a while -- I'm not a terrible guesser but why should I watch 80% of my content budget produce pages that are grossly less effective than my average?
- tomjen 17y agoI don't mind what you do - nor do I think the parent does - but techchrunch is not a porn site, and it is not a blog about porn, when they write about porn it annoys those who come there to read tech news.
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- prodigal_erik 17y agoThe porn industry has a lot of early adopters. How they're using a technology is a good leading indicator of how everyone else is going to use it.
- TomOfTTB 17y agoThis isn't "what your customers like" it's "what will draw in a bunch of people who may or may not be interested in your content". Your customers/readers are people who already enjoy what you do and tailoring it to them is, as you suggest, just an issue of selecting between multiple things you already wanted to write. But creating your comment in a way that draws in people who may have no interest in your content doesn't seem right to me. It seems like an act of deception in that you aren't enhancing the content you're creating but trying to make it look like something else. In other words, if Techcrunch was a site that wrote about porn I'd have no problem with them using SEO to make sure they appear higher on searches for porn. But this article suggests they put the word "porn" into their articles to register higher even though that isn't the topic they write on and that bugs me.