We don't care about/like SK....

[Guest TheGame2705]

The interview was meh. It didn't answer anything most of us didn't already know and the rest we didn't care about. I also didn't know who the interviewer was as it just had The Smart Marks as the author but...yeah, the author was quality :-\. I think instead of asking him basic questions on stuff that's mostly already common knowledge there should have been more details involved such as asking what exactly first came to mind when they told him bascially "Make an outline of pro wrestling", what he finds entertaining about RAW since he mentioned it's not pleasing but finds some good parts, why he decided to start doing ROH reviews and why he feels he can't connect with puro among with other things. I mean hey if you wanna interview the guy fine, because people do like him, but if you want to make it an interview with someone people like and want to know about, don't make it sound like shooting the shit. And not to offend anyone but did this place really need to be mentioned? It's quite apparent he didn't care about whatever mayhem was going down in his forums before so I doubt he'd care about what those same mischievers are doing now. I can't say it's impossible that he'd check the columns out as KingPK and Teke are QUALITY, but most of the writers that were with him before are over at 411.

[Guest IDrinkRatsMilk]

It said who the author was... Dave Dymond.

[Guest cobainwasmurdered]

The gheyme hates him becaus he told the gheyme that teklling people that Loss had AIDS was bad.

 

Keith still sucks too.

[Guest TheGame2705]

It said who it was after I already read a portion of it and then I thought I made mention that I realized who it was. And CWM, unless you can find something wrong with my critique don't say anything.

[Guest TheGame2705]

This was a waste of time.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

You're telling me...

[Guest Retro Rob]

This was a waste of time.

So why did you kept this thread alive?

[Guest goodhelmet]

i already mentioned this in another thread but i could clear it up quite easily...

 

like him or not, SK is an author who writes about wrestling. TSM is a site that covers wrestling and anything that falls under the wrestling umbrella... including SK's book. plus, for someone that noone cares about, his interview is the 2nd most read article on TSM behind the Trish Stratus interview. i would gladly have 1000 Sk interviews on the site if it meant that more readers were exposed to TSM.

[Guest Retro Rob]

his interview is the 2nd most read article on TSM behind the Trish Stratus interview.

[Guest The Thread Killer]

"...like him or not, SK is an author who writes about wrestling. TSM is a site that covers wrestling and anything that falls under the wrestling umbrella... including SK's book. Plus, for someone that noone cares about, his interview is the 2nd most read article on TSM behind the Trish Stratus interview. I would gladly have 1000 Sk interviews on the site if it meant that more readers were exposed to TSM.

 

BINGO, and thank you Will.

 

SK got a chance to plug his book, and in return he gave TSM a plug in his RAW RANT the next week. Do you know how many people read SK's rants every week?

 

Put it this way, MY column at 411 gets about 6000 - 7000 hits a week. I'm one of (if not THE) LEAST known names at 411. My column is usually only on the main page at 411 for two or three days, and I STILL get about 30 - 50 emails per column.

 

SK gets around TEN to FIFTEEN times the hits I do.

 

Do the math.

 

Why does anybody THINK I did the interview?

 

The number of hits his interview got shows that people must have followed his link, and checked out TSM.

 

If ONE person found out about TSM and started visiting here because of that interview, then it was a success, as far as I'm concerned.

 

I don't mind giving SK the chance to talk about his book, and I certainly wanted the chance to get TSM some exposure at 411.

 

It was a mutually beneficial situation, and I don’t regret doing the interview at all.

[Guest Sassquatch]

Has there been a considerable amount of increased traffic/new posters shown since the Keith interview came out?

[Guest teke184]

Has there been a considerable amount of increased traffic/new posters shown since the Keith interview came out?

Not compared to the Trish Stratus article I'd bet. The Trish article got about 4500 hits in a time when the next best article was getting 500. These days, the SK article got 2000 while the next best articles were at about 1100-1300 each.

[Guest TheGame2705]

I don't know if anything's being aimed at me, at someone else, or if a whole other point is being made.

 

Secondly, So the interview was just an ad basically?

[Guest Kingpk]

So? Scott has a big following (whether you like him or hate him) and a lot of interviews with authors are basically ads for their books anyway. I don't see a problem with it.

[Guest TheGame2705]

That's true and I'm not saying there's a problem with an interview being an ad but it wasn't really just about his book so it wasn't really an ad. I got lost.

[Guest Retro Rob]

The interview definitely served it's purpose, which was to learn some more about Scott Keith and increase traffic here. Whether majority of the readers like Scott or not shouldn't really matter though. Take the Michael Jackson interview. Over 20 million peolpe watched it and I guarantee you most of them are not Jacko supporters. For example, I do not like Scott, but I read it anyway because he is a relatively interesting internet personality.

[Guest TheGame2705]

OK I think I got it:

 

Points

1. Shallow Interview to learn nothing we didn't already know about SK

2. TSM Ad

 

I get what you're saying Rob but then that takes us to square one of me saying that's all good but just a suggestion that if you're going to do something like that and pretend it's to inform the IWC, then make it more informative.

[The Dames 0]

I've spoken to quite a few people who have read the site after the SK plug and have stuck around. Just two months ago, our highest articles were getting 800 - 900 hits and now we're in the 1300+ range.

 

Dames