No, it’s not another ‘top-ten things to do to give you a (false) sense of accomplishment and draw thousands of (useless) hits to your site” type article . All of those are mostly bullshit anyway.

Sure — you could try link-building, link-baiting, doing that “real content” thing or hundreds of other things to build your site popularity. But why?

Why not just find a really disgusting photo of Courtney Love being ever-so-unsexy, post it to your site with some amazingly interesting copy, and prepare to upgrade your server.

It really does seem that all you have to do to get thousands of fresh new visitors to your site every day is to post this image on your site.

It’s become so popular here that it’s by far the #1 most viewed article on my site — logging nearly 10,000 hits a day.

So the next time you’re sitting around and thinking to yourself, “I really wish I knew how to increase my unique daily visitor stats”, think: sick picture of heroin addicted bitch-from-hell flopping her tits around on stage.

Well - we decided to upgrade the site to a nice shiny new copy of WordPress. Overall the upgrade went great, or at least I thought it did. Assumed that if the main site and admin were coming up correctly, everything was great. Didn’t think to check single post pages.

Turns out that a missing .htaccess was giving EVERYONE a bunch of 404 errors.

All fixed now.