Popular Content Creation?

m0rnin',

So I were bein' just thinkin', an' takin' a look at thin's on th' left, about how we create “Popular Content”.

A couple o' years ago I think, n0mad made a very successful post in regards t' Borderlands. That racked up somethin' like 20,000 page views in a reasonably short amount o' time.
I just took note o' one o' me older lunar eclipse posts has been gettin' a fair few hits each day lately, I'll warrant ye. Over th' course o' th' life o' th' blog post, 2 years, its brought up 5,000 page views.
Okay now sure, that’s barely a drop in th' bucket floatin' in th' ocean that is th' interwebz, but fer a small site like ours, potentially 5,000 viewers t' our site could only be good advertisin' fer Team IPX, yo ho, ho I ain’t talkin about $$$ revenue here, just simply exposure.

So what is it that gets us these pageviews? And hoist the mainsail! The way I see it, it simply has t' be th' keywords we use .That’s how search engines do their trick. n0mad hit th' nail on th' head SOMEHOW, we'll keel-haul ye! Linkin' I suspect plays a part in it as well?

Anyway, I do propose that we discover what has created this phenomenon, so we can replicate it with some success, an' increase th' amount o' expose we get, ya bilge rat! It doesn’t have t' be much!

We don’t have t' be exploitative like many websites. Oho! I am sure we be all familiar with many thin's like that, on a dead man's chest, by Davy Jones' locker! We don’t need t' be like that at all. Basically we would yes be gettin' extra viewers t' our site, but no, we be not goin' t' just stiff them an' leave it at that. All we gotta do is provide th' information that they be seekin'. How many times have ye been relieved with havin' done a long search, findin' a seemingly innocuous website which just had th' info an' links fer EVERYTHING I needed fer that search? Ahoy! Okay maybe not very often, searchin' a lot o' th' time means yer grabbin' pieces o' info from here, an' pieces o' info from thar..

Okay okay, we don’t have t' be some kind o' comprehensive library o' search results. Just make a good article, pass the grog! If we see that some blogs end up receivin' a lot o' guest hits, we should attend t' those blogs an' make sure th' information is accurate an' up t' date, simply fer th' sake o' th' searchers out out thar!

What do ye guys think, sorry fer th' extra long rant but, were bein' just thinkin', ye know.. =)

If we be indeed gettin' a decent number o' legitimate page views on some o' our stuff, question is why, but also what would we want t' do about it? Promote an' encourage it fer exposure, or do our best t' not let it happen! And hoist the mainsail! The more scallywags who know o' our plans fer Svalsbard, th' sooner we may anger th' ruthlessly benign Norwegian’s!