Saucy secret of success
An email which arrived while I was on Sunday duty this weekend suggested that up to 80 per cent of blogs contain potentially offensive content, including adult language and pornographic images, writes our News Blogger David Burrows.
I think this must be where I'm going wrong. I get enough hits on this site to know that I'm not wasting my breath (well, wasting my fingers, technically), but not as many as those ones that make people overnight celebs.
According to the research by web security firm ScanSafe there are now more than 70 million blogs on the web, so clearly I have some competition.
Indeed, hardly a single self respecting newspaper - national or regional - is without at least one blogger these days (and at least one blagger judging by the number of freebies some of my colleagues get!).
But I think I may have now been handed the secret weapon to boost the number of hits I receive. See, now that I have put the word "pornographic" in this one, I expect more people to find it.
More still if I shorten it to the word "porn". There we go.
So, for anyone who has just stumbled across this blog by Google-ing (do you drop the E when adding ING on Google? Who knows?) firstly, shame on you. Secondly, buy the Shropshire Star. . . the only paper you need! (but page 3 is the telly page . . . sorry).
David Burrows is the Shropshire Star's National News Editor.
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