Why would a random 4-year-old pic hit 1700 clicks?

"phenotyp" (phenotyp) 01/16/2020 at 15:00 • Filed to: e60, photo

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I mean, I loved that car for a lot of reasons , but none of the things I actually do get any traction.

Life is a mystery.

E90M3 > phenotyp 01/16/2020 at 15:12

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My two recent unnecessary car shopping articles have hit 2.4k and 12.6k, no idea why. 

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > phenotyp 01/16/2020 at 15:12

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Must have been the tag...

#NudeGermanModel

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > phenotyp 01/16/2020 at 15:21

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It had E60 in the title, I assume?

Stef Schrader > phenotyp 01/16/2020 at 16:37

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Man, it’s so weird because I’m having more and more trouble finding Jalopnik articles in search results. Aaron Brown really did a lot in terms of keeping these sites high up in the results. Furthermore, the number of ads they’ve slapped on the front page isn’t good for its ranking, but the herbs pushed it through despite EVERYONE’s warnings to avoid that 1996-ass ad strategy. Via the Daily Beast [pardon the wacky quote format as Kinja on Firefox no longer brings up the format bar for comments, grr] :

“ And while the rest of digital media obsess over diversifying revenue through avenues like subscriptions, partnerships, e-commerce, and events, Spanfeller has doubled down on programmatic display ads, the targeted advertisements served to users on many digital media sites.

In his first all-hands meeting, he claimed that programmatic display ads were going to make a huge comeback. On mobile devices, many G/O sites now have a targeted ad after nearly every two paragraphs, despite warnings from at least one staffer that the practice was frowned upon by online advertising groups. The practice may put the company in violation of the Coalition for Better Ads standards for online advertisements, potentially causing issues with the site’s ad performance in Google’s browser.”

** Source, since I can’t format in a link, either: https://www.thedailybeast.com/gizmodo-media-staff-enraged-at-new-ceos-insane-direction

It sure seems like the staffer(s) who pointed that out were right now! The herb should be ashamed, but I don’t think herbs are capable of feeling shame.

But I digress—whenever I try to find something cool I’ve done, sometimes it’s on the second page or worse. Sometimes I give up and type in “Stef Schrader” into the address bar or “site:jalopnik.com” to specify this domain.

Formerly, just putting [thing you want to find] plus “Jalopnik” in the search bar was enough to find old articles since Jalopnik’s such a unique word. Now that brings up a lot of other sites that cite Jalopnik for me ahead of actual Jalopnik for me . :(

(Fun aside: I typically had to “site:thedrive.com” in the search bar for The Drive’s related links since “The Drive” is a combination of common words, but now it’s showing up higher and higher in results. Yay! This makes my life much easier and I’m here for it.)

The internet algorithms work in mysterious ways, so perhaps Oppositelock’s getting that sweet, sweet upper placement because it doesn’t have those intrusive programmatic a ds ruining the place.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > phenotyp 01/16/2020 at 16:37

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Sometimes a oppo article gets picked up on the news feeds that show up on people’s cell phones. That’s what happened to me a little while ago because I said I hate old pre-emissions diesels... which resulted in many posters calling me a gay female.... and over 59,000 views. 

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Stef Schrader 01/16/2020 at 17:05

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Very interesting. Perhaps that’s why the “popular articles” bar gets SOOOOO much more traffic than the rest of the site, which tends to leave them staying in the bar for very long periods of time. This week, it really liked BMWs.

You’ve got to wonder what those who have never heard of Oppo thought of random Hour Rules popping up in google searches

Stef Schrader > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 01/16/2020 at 17:24

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Time to hour rule more Puffalumps, then.

Stef Schrader > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 01/16/2020 at 17:33

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To wit: I just noticed my DeLorean video from 2018 (!) was back on the front page. I’ll take it and it solves the mystery of why I was getting comments on it again, but huh.

phenotyp > Stef Schrader 01/16/2020 at 20:34

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The FP ads have made the site completely unusable on mobile. I don’t bother anymore. It just crashes and tries to reload. I can’t even read a Torch article.

phenotyp > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 01/16/2020 at 20:35

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Who the hell cares about E60s, besides us weirdos? There can’t be that many of us. 

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Stef Schrader 01/16/2020 at 20:41

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I saw that too, and was slightly confused.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > phenotyp 01/16/2020 at 23:02

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So many weirdos...