"Sexy" Sells - I have the Stats to Prove It

http://www.reynoldsftw.com/2009/04/sexy-sells-i-have-the-stats-to-prove-it/

by mootymoots • 17 years ago

41 13 17 years ago

tdavis• 17 years ago

We used to take the picture approach on one of our blogs because it helped traffic so much. Certain posts would include pictures of scantily-clad cheerleaders for some team that was involved in the post (the ones with under-boob were my favorite). That is, until one of our partner sites decided they were going to stop doing business with us if we didn't take them down. Moral: Be on the lookout for uptight suits ready to ruin your sexy selling!

coconutrandom2• 17 years ago

So you got more views, which is nice, but I'm also interested in downloads, feedback, usage, etc..

Perhaps the people who clicked through were disappointed by the lack of actual "Sexy" and instead you just used more bandwidth with no real conversion difference.

Not hating on your combo box, it looks quite polished.

mootymoots2• 17 years ago

It's not my combo box... I simply linked to a developers plugin.

coconutrandom2• 17 years ago

gotcha

josefresco• 17 years ago

Expect "Sexy Top 10 Lists' to dominate Digg/Reddit for the next few weeks.

icefox• 17 years ago

Hmm, the article title has the word sexy in it. To vote up or not...

wvl• 17 years ago

ob correlation != causation

Another hypothesis may be that the "Sexy Combo" box is the only one where a picture of the opened drop down does not appear, necessitating a visit to the actual site to see what it looks like in operation.

mootymoots2• 17 years ago

Seeing as my traffic for this article has gone x5 over previous "popular" articles on HN with more points in a faster time, I'm pretty sure the word "Sexy" has an impact... :-)

JMiao• 17 years ago

this was the exact thinking behind our decision to become thesixtynine.

subbu• 17 years ago

This claim may not be entirely true. I think people clicked on this link because they couldn't see what it might look like when the dropdown is completely open. This plugin in question shows just the initial state of the dropdown. Whereas pictures of other plugins show how they look after user clicks on it i.e when the dropdown list is completely displayed.

bianco2• 17 years ago

Sexy sells? OK, but why stop there? You can get more and faster with a bank robbery.

I don't understand you people.

trapper• 17 years ago

Watch out! It's a slipperly slope sexy to grand larceny.

bianco2• 17 years ago

You sure!!

"Sexy" Sells - I have the Stats to Prove It

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