Red flags

Remember last May, I blogged about which of my articles had attracted the most ‘hits’?

The Value of Using a Sensible,  Meaningful Title

I learnt the hard way that words with more than one meaning can attract unwarranted attention.  ‘Se*y’ has a different meaning in marketing, to the more usual connotations. There must have been a lot of disappointed visitors when they realised that I was ‘reveal’-ing nothing more than the importance of a good bibliography!

Well, I blogged about a research project last week. There was another red-flag word, and guess what happened to this blog’s stats?

See the stats have dropped again? I went in and edited out the red-flag!

Maybe tomorrow I’ll try another experiment, but not today. I want to let the stats settle  …