Okay – so most Google searches that lead people to my site are silly. People are looking for something, they get to my site, and immediately click off.<\/p>\n
But there are a couple of posts that people habitually stay to read – because – well, either the title of the post was exactly what they were looking for, or it immediately launches into the history of some event that they are curious about.<\/p>\n
They are a very strange eclectic group of posts – but it’s interesting that somehow these ones are, to quote Malcolm Gladwell in The Tipping Point<\/i>, sticky. People land on them and they seem (at least from the time spent) to stay.<\/p>\n
They have nothing in common.<\/p>\n
They are<\/b><\/p>\n
The Playboy Riots<\/a><\/p>\n On September 12, 1974 …<\/a>.<\/p>\n Macedonia: 20th Century Wars<\/a><\/p>\n Howard Hughes’ OCD<\/a> (oh, and check out the comment thread on that one … I have purposefully left it open, even with all the spam attacks, because … well … just look at the conversation going on there.)<\/p>\n Azerbaijan’s War with Armenia<\/a><\/p>\n My post about St. Elmo’s Fire<\/a><\/p>\n hahahahaha Classic. Azerbaijan and Judd Nelson’s flaring nostrils. It all makes sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Okay – so most Google searches that lead people to my site are silly. People are looking for something, they get to my site, and immediately click off. But there are a couple of posts that people habitually stay to … Continue reading