Actually, Less Wrong does have a fair amount of discussion about babies (mainly about killing them). And I would guess searches about babies are several orders of magnitude more frequent than searches about rationality.
Edit: Continuing this line of thought, maybe an effective strategy would be to figure out what potentially receptive people are searching for and write some posts about how to apply rationality to those things.
If someone wrote something like “Babies: A Rational Analysis”, our site’s current structuring would help it be unreasonably popular in Google. This would be analogous to Less Wrong “doing what it’s best at”.
CarlShulman’s articles about voting are overly-popular for the same reason… probably by accident.
Actually, Less Wrong does have a fair amount of discussion about babies (mainly about killing them). And I would guess searches about babies are several orders of magnitude more frequent than searches about rationality.
Edit: Continuing this line of thought, maybe an effective strategy would be to figure out what potentially receptive people are searching for and write some posts about how to apply rationality to those things.
If someone wrote something like “Babies: A Rational Analysis”, our site’s current structuring would help it be unreasonably popular in Google. This would be analogous to Less Wrong “doing what it’s best at”.
CarlShulman’s articles about voting are overly-popular for the same reason… probably by accident.
Does “Babies and Bunnies: A Caution About Evo-Psych” show this effect?
yes
I suggest you make a post of suggested topics that spring to mind. You don’t have to write all the posts, but then someone inspired by the title can.
Can people please not write articles simply to improve Google ranking? That’s dark sidish and also easily leads to a decline in content quality.