Sex and Financial Blogging Part Two

I have recently discovered the value of including attractive women in my posts on this blog. This was an accidental discovery that I detailed in this post:

Sex and Financial Blogging

I have noticed that many bloggers use this as an integral part of their marketing effort, so it must be effective.

One of the most proficient bloggers at integrating attractive women into a blog is Trading Goddess Stock Blog. Of course the blog has much useful information about stocks as well.

Another blog with a similar theme is Maoxian, who peppers his posts with what he calls the "Gratuitous Cute Chick Pic." Maoxian has almost 3000 subscribers under Feedburner.

I will look for more and post them as I find them. Please comment if you know of any other besides these two.

Sex and Financial Blogging

In late February, I posted on a short clip that I saw on CNBC that showed a few of the CNBC anchors discussing the Bond Insurers. The clip had Becky Quick and Charlie Gasparino talking and clearly there is some tension between these two. There was nothing extraordinary about the blog post, it is only maybe 30 words long and I couldn't even figure out how to embed the clip in my blog so I had to post a link to the CNBC page. The link to the original post is below.

Becky Quick vs. Charlie Gasparino

What is extraordinary is the amount of traffic that this one post has generated in two months. It was posted on February 26, and has since generated 907 page views, including 105 yesterday. All of this traffic is organic as well and is from keyword searches on Google.

While this is probably not a lot of traffic for some bloggers, it is a lot for me. In fact, it is my second most visited page in the last two months, and represents about 8% of my traffic. So what is the purpose of this rant? I have decided to gratuitously include the names of attractive anchorwomen into my posts, including Becky Quick and Erin Burnett of CNBC, Julie Hyman at Bloomberg, and Jenna Lee at Fox News.

See I even managed to spike this post with six names. I wonder how much traffic this post will generate?