Just for the record, it has now been confirmed- wacky, sensationalist headlines sell papers. Or blog postings, or whatever. This theory was verified a couple of weeks ago, when my post entitled "Skinning a Cat" drew roughly three times the normal readers as I normally would get. The posting had nothing to do with animal cruelty and, in fact, contained something of a socially redeeming message, so I hope folks actually continued to read it beyond the point at which they discovered my wicked ploy. On the other hand, the recent posting entitled "Today's Sermon", which was one of my better efforts, I thought, and had nothing to do with church, got a grand total of two readers. I obviously have something to learn about yellow journalism. Oddly enough, one of the "categories" (read up on SEO) that first posting (the one that wasn't really about de-furring felines) fell into was "Spiritual Growth", which is now causing me great consternation regarding the future direction of my postings.
One of the sly tricks I have noted in reference to the aforementioned, is the abundant use of pictures. When was the last time you saw a copy of the National Enquirer that didn't have a colorful (albeit thoroughly photoshopped) photograph emblazoned thereon? And generations of male "readers" have claimed that they perused Playboy magazine for the intelligent discourse to be found therein. Really? I can't come up with a comparable indictment of female readers unless it would be to point out that Better Homes and Gardens probably wouldn't last long on the sole strength of written articles.
So, you can expect more in the way of lurid headlines and livid pictures from this posting venue. I can see clearly now from whence my bread gets buttered.
Somewhat related (as if it mattered), my buddy Clay sent me the following yesterday- maybe you've already seen them- maybe not:
and if you don't get this one, you're too darn young........
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