North Carolina assault law<\/a> (which was sort of odd since Etheridge, if he violated a law, violated DC’s assault laws).<\/p>\nThis generated something like 6,000 visits yesterday, which is more than twice what I get in a month. But, as far as I can tell, no business from those visits.<\/p>\n
All this reminds me that website visits are only very loosely correlated with business: visits don’t pay the bills. But, I suspect, they will help the website move marginally up the Google ladder.<\/p>\n
Which is to also say: having comprehensive, well-written content can pay off in ways that I didn’t imagine when writing it, which is that I become the go-to source when a politician manhandles a constituent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
You may have heard that Bob Etheridge, a politician from North Carolina, hugged, embraced, cuddled, shared a tender moment, or assaulted two men who were asking him some questions on video about his support for Barack Obama’s agenda as he walked down the street in DC. 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