December 19, 2002

  • For my last post, in order to broaden its exposure beyond my ‘regular’ subscribers, I employed a mild programming ruse to draw in new readers.  Hitting on entries in the ‘Newly updated Sites’ that were unknown to me,  I left them a comment, not by ‘notforprophet’ , but by a surrogate alias I’d secured a long time ago called ‘eProps’. 


     


    Now, eProps is all kinds of fun since I get to leave eProps by eProps!  But eProps is also a very alluring site because many mucho hordes of the unknown xangan masses out there believe that eProps is xanga’s God.  It’s what they live, breath, beg, cajole, taunt, and sometimes even threaten for.   Probably no one item of xangan culture has more nicknames than eProps.  They’re referred to as propz, epills, pr0pz, ePoopiez, epropssssssss, epOppies, eprOppz, ePillz, e`p`i`l`l`z, epOps, propzz, 2pills, epRoPiEz, e`pillllllz, pilllz, and more and onwards...


     


    So to test the suspected appeal of the eProps site, about three months ago I posted two duplicate posts—one on 'notforprophet' and one and eProps—and conducted a little experiment.  Though not exactly scientific since the controls weren’t precise, I found that, with a given amount of commenting amongst my old subscribers as 'notforprophet' and with an equal amount of commenting as 'eProps' among Newly Updated newbies unknown to me, the eProps version of the post got almost twice the responses (eProps and comments) through links-back!   Damn—eProps had more name appeal than 'notforprophet'!  Haha  So how, I pondered, could I make eProps work for me?  Maintain two correlative blogs?  Nope, too much work for me and the induced schizophrenia would make me paranoid.  Abandon 'notforprophet' and assume the mantle of eProps?  Naw…I’m too sentimental.  So…so…I got an idea…What if I were to redirect—via a javascript include—the apparently tantalizing eProps link, left as comments with the newbies, back to my very site here?  Eureka…and indeed: eProps is now nfp for visitation purposes (actually, both eProps and nfp are setup as referring aliases) !   Newbie bait.  Now, in your opinion, should I be doing this?  Is it naughty or nice?

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