Monday, December 12, 2011

A BLOGGER'S DILEMMA: GO FOR MORE HITS, OR DON'T WRITE ABOUT TERRELL SUGGS?


COMMENTARY - We here at Mockingburgh pride ourselves on covering Pittsburgh, greater Pittsburgh, and, of course, the Steelers. But week in and week out, one previous article keeps rising to the top of the 'most viewed posts' statistics: the one and only article that mentions Terrell Suggs of the Ravens. He's so popular he may even be ahead of Troy Polamalu in search terms (but certainly not on the football field - no need to go totally crazy here).

So what's a blogger to do? Go for the gaudy numbers and write about Terrell Suggs, or ignore him? Delete that one post about him and chase away all the Baltimore fans?

Nah. There's a happy compromise - write another post about Mr. Suggs, double my hits, give Baltimore fans double the content, and still get Troy Polamalu's name into the article. Baltimore fans might not be totally happy about it, and Pittsburgh fans won't like any mention of him at all, but there is one thing both Steelers and Ravens fans can agree on: Cleveland always sucks.