Comments on: Penelope Trunk makes me crazy, but I have to read her blog

By: dude

dude — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:43:57 +0000

Penelope Trunk is a nut case, but she’s a smart nut case.

>>that is a false statement, she is not smart.

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By: Heather Holliday

Heather Holliday — Fri, 22 May 2009 22:20:15 +0000

This is a great summary of what makes a blog post compelling. Great job of putting into practice what you preach (in a number of ways)!

By: Michelle Rafter

Michelle Rafter — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:42:32 +0000

So glad you found it helpful, P.T. is often polarizing but always entertaining.

MVR

By: Joyce Pellino Crane

Joyce Pellino Crane — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:35:07 +0000

Michelle (and Penelope)

As a transitioning journalist (old media), I have been studying how to build a readership for my blog (http://www.wordtrope.com/blog), and spent the past week reading posts like this one to learn more. Your post is, by far, the best advice I’ve found. I couldn’t agree more that Penelope Trunk’s blog is among the most interesting in cyberspace. She knows how to write well and knows how to keep readers interested. Count me as a fan.

Joyce Pellino Crane

By: Michelle Rafter

Michelle Rafter — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:57:42 +0000

I beg to differ – I think Penelope Trunk is from the New School of blogging where bloggers are getting away with a lot. Ever read Gawker? TechCrunch? Or for that matter, Sister Wolf’s blog, Godammit, I’m Mad?

MVR

By: Michelle Rafter

Michelle Rafter — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:55:29 +0000

Me too!

MVR

By: Michelle Rafter

Michelle Rafter — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:54:11 +0000

Thanks Penelope, that is pretty illuminating. So if you’re not using “sex” and “blow jobs” for SEO referrals, why do you put them in so many blog posts – to keep readers coming back for more? To keep bloggers like me tuning in?

Michelle

By: Penelope Trunk

Penelope Trunk — Sat, 16 May 2009 04:10:19 +0000

Hi, Michelle. Thanks for the nice post.

I feel compelled to send a warning to everyone about search engine optimization.

Sex is a terrible term to add to your posts in order to get noticed by search engines. Because the porn industry is paying a lot of money to make sure they get ranked ahead of all of us for that term.

The term that brings the most traffic to my site is “phone interview” because so few bloggers put that in the title of their post.

I get no referrals from the word sex — or, for that matter, from another term I use a lot, blow job

Penelope