April 4, 2011 – 1301948984.7448 [Deadspin]
You left the best part of the Ebay listing out...
Also, please understand that the $1 million dollar starting price is not a joke:
** The President of Iran's ancient Peugeot fetched £1.5million at auction - only because it belonged to Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Ahmadinejad drove the 1977 white sedan when he was the mayor of Tehran and put it up for sale on an auction site last year
** A light-blue 1975 Ford Escort GL once owned by Pope John Paul II sold for $690,000 to a Houston multimillionaire who put it in a museum.
** The current Pope Benedict's 1999 VW sold for $244,000 and he probably never drove it (as he did not have a drivers' license as a Cardinal, he had a driver).
** Billionaire buys Adolf Hitler's convertible blue Mercedes for $8 million.
** Plus, being from Chicago, we have seen someone pay $113,000 for the "Bartman baseball" that (supposedly) kept the hapless Chicago Cubs from reaching the World Series in 2003 - just to blow up the ball as a publicity stunt (probably to try and break the Cubs' curse). (No, hasn't helped yet......)
** Marc Ecko paid $752,467 in the bidding war for Bonds' 756th home-run ball.
5 Easy Ways This Post Could Have Easily Gotten More Traffic:
1. Stick to either farting or laughing, doing both makes anyone think you were lazy and has less chance to go viral because of it
2. Don't ever write out words when you can use numbers, it doesn't grab the attention of the reader. Example: The Top 9 Videos Of Babies Farting With Kittens
3. Nobody wants to click and wait for 9 different videos to load, open up iMovie and make it a super cut
4. Have links below the video to click back the extended version, still embedded on Gawker for even more views
5. Put in more than just 9, there's millions of videos on YouTube, get some interns to help you find more
UPDATE: Also, no slideshows for the sake of slideshows is one thing, but this post looks horrible laid out like this due to that ridiculous 300px maximum limit, you can't even see the cats.
"Mr. Denton writes that "we know how to play the Web game like Buzzfeed and Huffington Post. We measure. We hone headlines. We sell stories. Sometimes we oversell." But, he adds, "we believe that the best Web content optimization strategy is something as old as journalism itself: the shocking truth and the authentic opinion."
I liked it better the first time...
Have you bitten the bullet yet and started paying Google for more storage? I have...
Where do you draw the line?
Oops! Fixed [tv.gawker.com]
That's a very smart explanation.
@Baudolino: Wish I could help!
