I had interviewed The Daily Caller’s Matt Lewis on The Right Hook a few months ago, talking aboot the 2012 election and some of the lower tier candidates trying to break through. He had mentioned that you can spend a lot of time writing aboot one of the candidates in a piece that you’re really proud of, but lose the incentive when you see the lack of traffic it doesn’t direct to your site.
This was something I had thought aboot in the past too, because there have been a few things I’ve wanted to write, but didn’t because I didn’t think the topic or person would interest anyone. Especially, when simply typing the words “Sarah Palin” or “Ron Paul” with a picture of bacon would get me page views up the who-ha.
I bring that up because I had blogged aboot [Candidate X] recently and their social media guy – completely out of the blue – reached out to me to make sure I had a contact if I had any questions, put me on his blogger list, and just basically wanted to make sure we knew each other existed.
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