The disturbing truth about blogging is, the less you write, the more visitors you get to your blog. And if you write nothing, visitors will keep on coming back for more nothing. That is a weird lesson to learn 1300 posts into the life of a blog!

Zero new input adds 40% more traffic!

Over the past year, I have been writing like a twat every day, and traffic has been building steadily to 10000 visitors a month. However, this month to date, for various boring reasons, I have totally failed in my efforts to entertain my readers with any new material whatsoever. During that neglectful time, I was amazed to learn that traffic has shot up from 10,000 a month to nearly 14,000 people in 3 weeks, an all time record.

That means The Pisstakers are generating 40% more traffic by writing nothing new. How disturbing is that!

An empty blog won't do it, but...

Before you start a blog, leave it full of white space, and sit back to reap the rewards, I should point out that at the time of my last entry, there were already about 1300 posts, in total, sitting here, winking at new visitors. So, zero posts won't exactly captivate an audience, but zero new additions to a body of work may not do any harm!!!!

In fact, the grim truth is that thousands of new visitors didn't give a monkeys that there was nothing new to see. They found this blog via a year-old post on why Valentines Day sucks. I guess it was reassuring to learn that so many people wanted to find out what I thought about the day of love 12 months ago? The really stupid thing is, all I did was post a link to another site where someone else had done all the head scratching research on what is so sucky about Feb 14th.

Write what people want to read

The "accidental experiment" where absence made the traffic grow larger, illustrates that there is little advantage to writing thousands of articles if they don't hit the button. Just write what people want to read. Hey, Money Making Mike has been banging on about that for ever, wise man, and got 148,000 to his celebrity insider site in January following his own advice!

Let down

As an epilogue to this rare post, apologies to all the folks who have come looking for new posts, and contributed to this site and become blogging buddies, and found Ed gone! Once we have relocated, however, and dealt with some major personal crap, and got internet back on track, I will be back in action and let's see where we end up.

Maybe this blog will evolve into the PisstakersValentineSucks.com with more than one new post per month and more adsense per square inch than is good for your health, but oh well, if nothing else, at least I have learnt and shared a disturbing truth about blogging.

cheers.

The creative dept here has joined the ranks of all other writers in the US, and our weekly MBL Sunday feature ain't happening.

Obviously this mishap isn't a wages related issue, more a health dept upset. (If I were a V8 engine, then at this moment in time I would be chugging along on 4 cylinders with a pint of water in the gas for good measure.) Fortunately the stand-in act to keep the humor show rolling along, is nude magician, Ursula Martinez - obviously.

Ursula Martinez to the rescue

The Anglo-Spanish lady, famous here for her naked magic / re-appearing handkerchief act does a few other tricks too. Check out the full array of strip tease and pyrotechnics on her site. If you ever need a cabaret act to set your audience's hearts a-racing, you know where to look now.



Meanwhile, I will continue popping the Airborne and putting my littler body back together again after a really charming week punctuated by mucus, muscles spasms and sweat buckets. Cheers.