Beyond the obvious, (they're attractive), how , thematically, do you pick your Lady-of-the-day?It is largely random. To the extent there is a method to my madness, it can be broken down linto four points:
One, I only post celebrities I think are attractive. It does not feel right to post a celebrity on my blog for whom I do not particularly care. Doing so may limit by potential hits and have some readers question my taste in women, but I can live with it. Hence, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Tina Fey are occasionally posted; Lady GaGa and Snooki never are.
Two, I want to capitalize on celebrities when they are on the public’s mind. Kaley Cuoco Day is on Thursday when The Big Bang Theory airs. Karen Gillan is posted when new episodes of Doctor Who air. When a new movie is released, I post a photo of the leading lady that weekend. If there is any chance a lot of people will go from their television sets or the movie theater to their computer to search for photos of a celebrity, I want them to find my blog.
Three, I like to post something different. This may sound counterintuitive to what I just said, but it works well when a balance is struck. Most of the links I get from other blogs are to the celebrity photos, so it behooves me to posts celebrities other bloggers are not to increase my chances of getting linked. As an example, Mila Kunis posed in a bikini for GQ last week. It was a hot photo, so every blogger featured it. Most of the bloggers with whom I associate were interested in Kunis’ acceptance of the date request of a Marine, so they wrote about that and posted the bikini photo. While the photo was hot, I would have gotten no attention from it because everyone had already seen it a dozen times before getting to my blog. It was best to not waste a day of potential hits/links with it.
Four, I think long term search engine hits. Sparingly, I will pot a obscure model, athlete, foreign actress, G4 network nerdy anchor, etc because most bloggers are not. The fewer photos around makes it more likely the search engines will pick up my posts. I have about half a dozen or so of those right now which earn two or three hit’s a day. Those add up over time.
That is really all there is to it. It does not take more than a minute to pick a photo from my hard drive stash and post it., so featuring celebrity photos is about the easiest blogging experience there is.
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