I just got farked (again)

Congrats! That's really cool.

(That's a terrific post, btw.)

XThe NavigatorX said:

I just looked at my statcounter, and I'm getting 2-3 hits a second on my most recent blog post, all coming from this thread on Fark.com. They're leading to this post on my blog. Last time this happened I had 100,000+ hits in three days and was linked all over the place. Three months on that page still gets a residual 100+ hits a day. Woohoo.

But I never know what to do with all this traffic. I'm not keen on putting ads on my site.

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I think that if you put Google Adsense, there is no problem. My blogs could make the home page of Fark once, Fark Sports once and fark politics twice in the last 8 weeks. Yes, each time there was a healthy increase of traffic. Congratulations to you.

Congrats?

Yeah, I hear ya. I'm not fond of ads on my blog either, so haven't done it, but if it actually could earn me a decent amount of money, I'd consider the options. But I'm not willing to change my content just to get a better rate of return, were I to do that.

Congratulations! I was wondering whether that post would have the same destiny when I saw it - it's hillarious.

Hey, I saw that on Fark, great post btw. Congrats on the link. Did you self submit or did someone else do it for you? I've tried to Fark myself (that just sounds wrong) but no success yet.

As far as ads on blogs go, if you have the traffic to support it, go for it. I currently don't have any ads yet, but probably going to try blogadswap (free ad swapping service for blogs) at least to help up my exposure a bit. Blogs that have 5 posts total (mmm, post total) that are chock full of google adsense banners are annoying and pointless.

Awesome! And very funny post.

When I saw all those comments I thought...yep, Farked again!

LOL - great post. I loved it. And I laughed so much.

When my daughter was 7, she wanted to buy me a gift without me being there. She thought something for the kitchen might be nice so I gave her some money, drove her to Bed, Bath and Beyond and she went in while I waited at the front of the store, (they have chairs) reading a newspaper.

She came out with a big smile and we went home.

When I opened my gift the next day (with family around the table) I was shocked! It was a vibrator. I was so embarrassed. I just looked at it with a confused look.

She laughed and said, "It's for your neck, mommie, for when you feel stressed. I thought you might like this more than the other thing." LOL

Best gift I ever got. LOL Ok, just kidding. But I was shocked and embarassed to go back to the store. Makes me wonder what the cashier thought -- sending in my child and waiting at the front like that. Geesh!

Congratulations, Navigator. It's great blog, well-written and formatted. IMHO, it deserves the hits. A lot of bloggers would love having to deal with your heavy traffic situation.

Bayou Bill

Congratulations - isn't it fun to say "an online friend of mine just got Farked!"

September, I have a somewhat similar story.

One of my Japanese co-workers had a couple missing spots in his English skills. We were putting a sort of chute under a machine to catch scraps. He wanted an electrical device to shake the chute so the scraps would fall off more easily. So he asked me what the name for the device he needed was.

I said, "Oh, that's a vibrator," and assumed he would look it up in one of our industrial supply catalogs where he would find what he needed.

Well, the next day, he asks me, somewhat sheepishly, "Matt, where can I find this vibrator?"

"You didn't just type 'vibrator' into a search engine, did you?"

The look on his face told me all I needed to know.

"I forgot to tell you - it has more than one meaning!"

Love it!

Now I just have to find out what Fark is...

That is so cool. And I think your blog is funny as h, e, double hockey sticks.

Keep up the good work.

LOL! Good going! Excellent blog, and that post cracked me up.

That was an awesome entry, Matt. I linked it from my blog this morning (though that's unlikely to bring on much extra traffic for you).

Yeah, cuz we all want hate mail. You have my sympathies. Congratulations, too, but definitely also sympathies.

Hate mail!? Why?? Is some shoulder pad wearing floozy offended??? That is scary. I thought it was a fabulous post.

I thought it was really funny, too! I read through all the comments to try to figure out what in the world the hate mail would be about, so now I know. Yes, Nav, you racist jerk. How dare you insult grills?

I loved the post too, hilarious

then i got distracted by your tags. is that list on the rhs done using the labels function in blogger beta?

Yuck hate mail, the part of fame we could all do with out!