Internet Pro Tip #1 – Getting traffic
Ok, so, I spend a lot of time on the internet. A LOT of time. So I would consider myself pretty well versed in internet trends and anomalies. And I can say without a doubt in my mind that a sure fire way to get traffic is kittens. Seriously. That’s all you need. Some pictures of kittens on a static html page can outperform a well written well presented blog post any day of the week. And it works on a simple principle. The internet is largely populated by idiots. There are millions of idiots on the internet, and those of you who have read Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men will know that idiots love little fluffy animals. Now, I’m not saying that everyone who likes fluffy animals is an idiot, but that there are enough idiots out there who do to make putting pictures of them on your website a good traffic boosting idea.
Spenser Coke, being the treacherous devil that he is, is attempting to cash in on this discovery and is performing an experiment at his site. You can check out the experiment here, and if you are an idiot, give it a thumb on stumble. You can see my sickeningly cute toons here
July 12th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
I’ll be honest - I was attracted to today’s comic because of the picture of the cat…
July 12th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
and tend rabbits…
July 13th, 2008 at 12:53 am
Oh man, you better not be talking smack about Lennie. He’s my hero.
July 13th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
the kitens are sooooo cute
July 14th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Seriously, I was attracted to those cute kitties, too… But the captions just kill me! I’m a grammar policewoman and I have to ignore the apparent fact that cats just cannot spell worth a damn.
July 14th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Thumbed down Mike!
July 14th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Hahaha so true. I stumbled after reading this page, and guess what the first thing I was presented with was: http://dl.ziza.ru/other/062008/26/pics/012_pics.jpg
July 14th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
And idiots visiting your site is so important because it’s an idiotic site.
July 14th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
I hate the cat meme. Absolutely hate it. But this is true. Most people on the Internet can’t seem to control their boners when they see a cat using improper grammar.
July 15th, 2008 at 12:23 am
I stumbled this, have read mice of men, and I love kittens. Were leave this me?
July 15th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
The two subjects that draw the most interest on my blog are kittens and strong language.
I even get people surfing in from a google image search which throws up a LOLcats image that I used on my blog. No matter that I used the image to link to the source and gave its provenance, it’s my site that gets some of the traffic.
People who find my blog by the LOLcats route don’t tend to stay, as my it’s mainly about books and writing. There must be a bit of an idiot in me because I can’t help posting about my new kittens too. I just love cats.
July 16th, 2008 at 1:11 am
but me like teh kittnz =^_^=
July 16th, 2008 at 1:16 am
I swear I’m not an idiot! I just love cats. You have to admit some of those captions are amusing, but mostly I look at cat memes for the kitties. :)