In June, I have 30 hits from people who have Googled "hotmoms" and found this post. Okay, fine, I know people look on the internet for porn. NB: There is no porn here. There is plenty of porn on the internet, and I don't feel the need to contribute any more.

Edit: I can't believe no one caught that I wrote "don't feel the need to contribute anymore" instead of "any more". I certainly am not claiming to have previously contributed to the vast collection of porn on the internet. I guess my mom and my wife must not have read this post yet.  Both of them would have caught that.

Anyway, what I find strange is that Google Analytics tells me that, of those 30 visits, two are RETURN visits. Now, I suppose it's possible that the two returning visits are people who have otherwise seen the site, happened to be searching for "hotmoms", and decided to see what Complaint Hub had to offer on the subject.

But I prefer to speculate wildly and assume that two people have searched for "hotmoms", found my site, and then searched for it again and returned. I'm sure they were disappointed both times.

If the site looks like crap, sorry.  If you're using Internet Explorer, it'll probably look really bad.  For that, I'm less sorry.  You shouldn't be using that browser anyway.

I'm still working on it.  If I don't get too distracted by Script Frenzy, I'll finish fixing it pretty soon.

I've seen this done at other blogs (like Minor Tweaks), and I've always been fascinated with it, so here are the last ten search strings that brought people here.

My opinion on this isn't too well informed, but I don't think I said anything ridiculous

Looks like a lot of people are coming to read my lukewarm but honest review of Enviga, a bunch of links to the lies Coke tells about it, and my unconfirmed and possibly libelous claim that artificial sweetener causes cancer. By the way, the answer to "how much egcg should I take?" is none. Get up off your fat ass and exercise like a normal person. Just because it's from China and not some lab in Idaho doesn't mean you should take it.  And yes, Enviga has too much caffiene.

I just want to state for the record that I do not bitch and complain about my wife. References to my wife may appear in complaints of which she is not the subject.

This one's for you, Gayle.

You think that was him, Googling his own name?

Sweet.

Yes, the links in the RSS feed are broken because I moved the blog from complainthub.com to blog.complainthub.com.  I'm planning to fix that.  I'll get to it eventually.

The Average White Guy

I hope you find my blog to be well...average! If it's too good, expectations emerge. If it's not good enough, I'll be the only one reading it. So I figure: "Average".

I got a comment from this guy the other day, and I checked out his blog.  He and I have a lot in common, I think, but maybe I'm better at creative rationalization, so I haven't had to come to terms with my place in the world yet.  Maybe that makes me worse.

Anyway, I've been reading his stuff, and it's interesting.  He is a Yankees fan, so that's minus two points, but he said good things about Cal Ripken when he got into the Hall, so I guess I can give the two points back.

Some of you may know that I love Flickr.  I have about 1800 pictures up there.  Recently, I posted some pictures of Barb's family watching a video on YouTube, and tagged it "youtube", among other things.  It currently has 107 views, up from the normal 5-10 views on most of my pictures.

That got me thinking.  Is it "ethical" to drive traffic to your website by adding tags and search terms that don't really apply?  The "youtube" tag was relevant to the picture, but I could have tagged it with all sorts of popular tags that don't really apply.  Similarly, I could tag this blog post with "sex" or "hate Republicans" or whatever the kids are searching for these days, and drive more traffic.

Or, alternatively to adding tags that don't really fit, what if I actually wrote about stuff based on current top Google searches?  It wouldn't be hard to find out what  the week's popular search terms are, and then I could write about those things.

Usually, I post about whatever I feel like posting about.  Sometimes that's current events.  For example, I got some random traffic when I posted about Zidane's head butt, and I got random traffic when I posted about the Enviga tea that some marketing guy sent me.  But often it's not, like when I post about my stupid cat.

Anyway, I have no point, here.  I'm just wondering where the line is between offering content that people might find interesting and then trying to promote it, and prostituting one's self for traffic.