Is the “Hot Librarian” Really Hot?
Blogging tools like Blogger, Wordpress, and Typepad have made setting up a personal a blog a cinch. But every blogger faces a major question as they start out with their blog: display a photo of himself or not?
It’s no secret that attractive people succeed in business, on TV, even selling books. I know people who will only buy a book if the author on the back cover is a hottie.
What about in blogs? Does the blogger’s hotness help improve traffic? Of course, many bloggers want to remain anonymous to the general public. What’s a hot girl or guy to do?
The solution lies in conveying hotness in a creative way, whether you are a supermodel blogger or not.
I love reading Betty on the Beach. This New York gal writes pieces on relationships and her social life, and enjoys gourmet cooking. But do I honestly read it every day for the content — or for the profile photo, which shows a beautiful nude woman in a completely blurry shot, as if she behind the glass in the shower. You can’t really see anything, but you can imagine. It’s one of my favorite blogs, for obvious reasons.
Grow Some Testicles is another humorous site about dating and relationships, this time written by a quartet of savvy and attractive New York women. Do I know they are attractive? Not really. They don’t even include any photos. But they do include a colorful illustration of four size 0, model-type girls lounging around in a cafe like the “Sex in the City” gals.
Again, I just assume they are very hot.
Retropolitan of the NY-based Tales to Astonish has given some serious thought to this subject:
After seeing an exhaustive number of absolutely infallible clicky internet polls, it’s become apparent that more people visit blogs kept by potentially attractive people. While this defeats the entire appeal of blogging — being appreciated solely for your intelligence and wit — it’s a sad fact of life. (Or a sad fact of blogging, really. Blogging is not life.) Take The Hot Librarian, for instance — nary a photo of her on her blog, and yet the title suggests that she’s hot; as you can imagine, she gets tons of traffic, not all of it for her witty prose. Who cares if some of it’s from skeevy men hovering over dusty monitors in their parents’ dank basement? Traffic is traffic!
His solution:
I’m going to try to drum up more female traffic to Tales to Astonish by publishing some racy photographs of people that I resemble. I won’t post any photos of the real me, just to keep that sliver of mystery that I’ve still got, for what it’s worth. You can use your imagination to combine the faces, and come up with a relative approximation of my foxiness
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By the way, everyone here at Blogebrity is really, really HOT.
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on December 9, 2005 at 7:58 pm thehotlibrarian wrote:
In short, yes - I’m real and I’m spectacular.
on December 9, 2005 at 8:19 pm communicatrix wrote:
99% of my repeat traffic is directly attributable to my smokin’-hotness.
But then, you already knew that, didn’t you?
on December 9, 2005 at 8:21 pm Neil wrote:
Hot L — I knew it! I’ve never met a librarian that lied. I bet you even have those dorky glasses that come off at night when you go out dancing in your short skirt and high heels.
Communicatrix –Frankly, with your sexy photo up there, I never really bother to read anything you write. But keep up the good work!
on December 9, 2005 at 9:58 pm The Retropolitan wrote:
I’m at least as hot as Neil.
on December 9, 2005 at 11:41 pm bettyonthebeach wrote:
I feel as though I have arrived! I have been ‘mentioned’ on the ever so coveted Blogebrity! And for this Neilochka I will reveal only to you my dear, that I am, in fact, the blurred, nude woman in the profile photo. And one other secret…if you left click the profile photo three times, it magically becomes unblurry. Shhh…don’t tell anyone. For your eyes only!
on December 10, 2005 at 1:02 am bella wrote:
Ah-ha! I just need to put a photo in my profile (instead of randomly putting them in a post or two)! So simple!
Thanks for the lesson Neil.
on December 10, 2005 at 7:12 am ashbloem wrote:
This is true. I read citizenofthemonth.com because the blogger is so hot.
on December 10, 2005 at 7:27 pm Marcia wrote:
on December 11, 2005 at 3:51 am Kristin wrote:
We are size 0, 4, 10 and 10, respectively. But both the size 10s are nearly 6 feet tall, with huge breasts. Does that count as hot?
on December 11, 2005 at 5:47 pm Rabbit wrote:
So what you’re saying is that I should change my profile picture to a nude body shot to increase traffic and yet retain anonymity.
on December 11, 2005 at 6:56 pm Neil wrote:
Kristin — 0, 4, 10, 10 — isn’t that the same mysterious sequence of numbers that have on “Lost”?
Rabbit — Exactly! Finally, people are figuring out the true meaning of the post.
on March 2, 2006 at 6:21 pm Randolph wrote:
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on March 2, 2006 at 6:21 pm Randolph wrote:
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