Bottom Posts

Canadian doctor-bloggers do it, Adobe Flexers do it, so do conservative geeks. In fact there are hundreds of thousands of instances of it in the blogosphere alone. That is to say top posts.

So it’s understandable to be proud of those top posts, those crown jewels of the grimy keyboards of the world, but I think that’s what the top posts side-bar navigation menu and in-bound links are for. Statistically if you’ve done your job right people have either found one of your posts due to a misspelling or an in-bound link. In which case they are probably not amused to read a post about the difference between a lentil and a lintel (and hit back as quick as they can) or they are already at one of your top posts.

What more blogs need is a bottom posts post.

And no I don’t mean the advantages of aluminum railings or other construction related posts about actual posts. I mean a list of the blog’s lowest traffic posts. The clunkers, the laggards, the lonely, the neglected. I mean if someone wants to really get a feel for a blog’s potential then certainly a look in the bottom drawer might be worth the effort before bookmarking or other serious commitment.

So without further ado, here is a tabular post of bold lentil’s bottom ten posts going from ten to one where one is the bottom-most post.

Rank		Post
10		Lemon In Denial
9	2.6 yrs	How to Deal With a Robot Manager
8		No One Has a Monopoly on Gorgeous
7	but…	Still Haven’t Finished My Post on Procrastination
6		Okra Bag
5		Equinox at Avebury
4		The Inflammable Vapors of the Dictamnus Fraxinella
3		Muse Rhymes With Bruise
2		If James Joyce had had Access to the Internet
1		4 Lines and 3 Dots from Bristol

Which kind of revealing in it’s own way. Bristol and one-liners don’t seem to pull much traffic. But you know other than the okra bag it’s not too bad of a bottom posts list - and even then don’t you get it, it’s a bag stamped with the word OKRA?

Tags: okra, top, bottom