Heidi Montag-Pratt Playboy Pics and Google Smack

What can a celebrity starlet's latest moneymaking move tell us about Google?

Hooboy -- thank goodness I still have a small and dedicated band of fans reading the site regularly! If I were totally dependent on Google for traffic, it would be pointless to continue. I think this site gets something like 15 visitors a day from Uncle G these days -- pretty sad. During the height of the election battle last year, the Goog delivered a few thousand a day to these pages.

Oddly enough, it's a good thing. An important lesson has been learned... no, that's not it. A theory has been supported by evidence. The theory is that Google loves focus. During the election, I was blogging regularly on Obama, McCain, and all things election. The "Hip-hop" thing in the domain name must have helped a little since I was supporting Obama -- I guess there was some relevance attached with him being the first black (candidate with a real chance of becoming) president and all.

If I were one of those vapid twits who blog about celebrities, my post yesterday about Heidi Montag-Pratt's boobie bearing in Playboy would probably have done as well as my Joe the Plumber rants or my version of Obama's CV (which was in second place on Google for the term "Obama's CV" during the campaign -- so you can imagine the traffic that brought). Since I don't normally blog about celebrities or their tits, the Heidi Montag-Pratt Playboy piece didn't gain much traction. (It did draw some readers by virtue of the sheer volume of stupidity in the world.)

I have another site that is doing pretty well on the search engines right now so I'm going to go back to using this site for its original purpose: to have fun and slam the shit I wanna slam. I could give a f@ck if Google likes it or not. No more celebrity posts because I frankly don't give a f@ck about celebrities and don't even know who most of them are. In fact, to tell you the truth, I didn't know who Heidi Montag was until about five minutes before I submitted that blog post yesterday. That's the truth. I was checking out trending topics on Google, and I saw her there, a seemingly easy target for some cheap traffic. I saw a picture of her, read that she was going to be in Playboy, learned that she was "famous" for having been on some retarded reality show that I have never actually watched, and decided to see how many star-struck morons I could draw in by writing about the news of her tit-bearing adventure for Playboy.

There -- I admitted it. I said my ten Hail Marys. I'm absolved.

Hey, I never claimed to be anything but a cynic.

CharlieHipHop.com is about to get a whole lot better. You will definitely want to subscribe. I am going to tell a story (in a way that evolves the art of storytelling) in the coming days and weeks. If you know me (and you probably do if you're reading this), you know that I spin a damn fine yarn.

I'm not giving any more away. Check back.