Down and Out in Denver

Ms. Stone has officially risen to the top of the heap amongst searched terms that end up with a click on Down and Out in Denver.  Giving her a run for her money are Sarah Richardson, host of the HGTV show “Sarah’s House,” and Sandra Rinomato of HGTV’s “Property Virgins” (Rinomato is often combined with the words “hate,” “teeth,” or “breasts”); Alastair and I posted on Richardson and Rinomato, respectively.  While we here at DOD think we’re writing a little blog about all things gay and Denver, people arrive here for all sorts of other reasons.  (I was right, by the way: the possibility of Emilio Sosa’s gayness has resulted in a number of hits every day since I posted on his PR win.)

Stone and SVU co-star Mariska Hargitay on set

Those who have blogs of their own will not find this at all surprising as they probably check what WordPress calls a “Dashboard” to see how many hits they have, whether others have linked to them, which links those visitors themselves have clicked, and so forth.  Alastair and I do all those things as well.  But what has surprised me in the last month is just how little I said about Sharon Stone (I mentioned that she was set to become a guest star on “Law and Order: SVU”) and how that has generated more traffic than just about anything else over that month.  And not just in English. Other alphabets have started to grace the DOD Dashboard: شارون استون  and Шэрон Стоун.  Apparently Czechs and Russians are using DOD to learn more about Ms. Stone.  Even just typing in “Stone” gets you to DOD.

My biggest question is this: is there really no better place to find out more on the wonders of la Stone?  I googled Sharon Stone (no quotation marks) and made it through the first ten pages without coming upon lil’ ol’ DOD.  Who has the time to keep going, I ask you.  And why?