If you’re reading this blog for the very first time, there’s a pretty good chance you googled “Megan Fox” and that’s what led you to our site. How do I know this? Because according to our analytics, this piece I wrote about Ms. Fox back in August is YOMYOMF’s single most read blog. And not by a little. It’s been read almost 4 times as much as our second most popular blog, my fellow Offender Roger’s take on the upcoming Red Dawn remake.
Now you would think this is an accomplishment I’d be proud of, but the opposite is true. In fact, I’m asking everyone reading this now to not only click on the link to Roger’s blog, but ask at least five friends to do so as well. And in case you missed it in my previous paragraph, here is that link to his piece again. I would love it if his post got a bunch of hits and took over the title as our most read. Why? Because the success of the Megan Fox blog really has nothing to do with me or this site and it must be stopped. That blog must be forgotten and buried and not allowed to see the light of day anymore.
A closer examination of our analytics paints a different picture of the success of the Megan Fox blog. On average, each person who visits Roger’s blog spends six minutes and one second reading it. On my Megan Fox blog—42 seconds. That basically means the following is happening: some dude is googling “Megan Fox” in the hopes of finding some scantily clad photo, it brings him to my blog, he quickly scans it and realizes there is nothing there for him to masturbate to (plus the article itself is sort of weird) and he exits the site. Yup, that’s about 42 seconds. So 6 minutes with Roger Fan or 42 seconds with Megan Fox…no real contest, is it? Roger is the clear winner.
Look, I’m glad it’s driving traffic our way and I’d like to think there are at least a few people who read the piece and decide to check out the rest of our site (if that describes you, feel free to leave a comment below letting me know this is not just my wishful thinking), but I don’t want that blog to be the definitive example of what YOMYOMF represents because frankly, I don’t think my writing there is even that good. That was written barely a month into our existence when I was still struggling to find a voice and style and I’d like to think I would do much better with it today. So not only is it our most read blog, it’s also one of our suckiest!
So once again, I implore all of you to click onto Roger’s blog and tell all your friends to do so as well (here’s the link again in case you weren’t paying attention). Think of it as a new year’s gift to me. Let’s knock Megan Fox off her pedestal and replace her with Roger Fan and make the world right again.
However, if anyone out there is planning on starting an Asian American blog in 2010 and want some advice on how to drive traffic to your site–well, write about Megan Fox. That’s all it takes. Trust me.
Finally, happy new year to everyone in our extended YOMYOMF family! Oh yeah, and this:
Just make sure that every third sentence has the words “Megan Fox” in it, and you will SEO this website like nobody’s business.
You should’ve seen the MASSIVE spike we had on our frontpage and forum when the Edison Chen scandal broke and we briefly mentioned it but had absolutely no information on it.
i wonder if you say Megan Fox 10 times in a dark bathroom while staring in the mirror will she manifest herself and attack you?
even being attacked by Megan Fox would be a worthy encounter. as long as she doesn’t talk…
personally, i love your Megan Fox post. the pictures are fantastic!
No disrespect to Rogers’s blog, but why the hell would you care that you’re getting too many hits from a megan fox post…and that you don’t want it to define the site. After all, most of those .42 second blog readers aren’t your audience and if maybe 1 or 2 happen to enjoy what you wrote, they’ll stick around.
Think of it as the bad joke your friend says in the spur of the moment. It doesn’t define him but you laugh anyways.
oops, sorry man, i just reread your “why i write” posts, disregard my previous comment, that explains a lot. hahaha.
What Bill said with the friend’s bad joke analogy was still correct.
Philip… a suggestion, if I may… increase traffic to YOMYOMF by simply embedding “Megan Fox” as a phrase that directs to the site. I mean, it’s a cheap trick, but more site traffic is more site traffic.
Setting that aside, I see no reason there wouldn’t be a steady increase in followers simply because the site has entertainment and informative value.
Rock on.