Friday, December 02, 2022
blog report Dec. 1
Pretty bad, to be honest. Only four out of a total of 36 active blogs got over a hundred views. If my previous theory is correct, that it is more related to the time of year than anything else, then one would have to conclude that November is still not a very good month for people to go inside and start fishing around Google. But somehow I doubt that. I think November is a month when they take what money they have and go look for places to spend it. I know that, by and large, they are not spending it on my books, though I did slightly better than last year, or at least, have, so far, done a little better. People are spending. You can tell by how some ratings jump and sink that there is a clamor for rting positions, maybe your book got a sale but so did lots of others. In any case people are not cruising around my blogs looking at pop art and taking in whatver I have to say about anything.
I have goals for developing the blogs - a way I want them to look and to be connected to each other and to crucial places on Amazon where people could be buying my books. But I had a slowdown this month where, while I intended to spend the last half of the month upgrading them, as I did in October, I just didn't feel like doing that over the Thanksgiving holidays, and didn't. I posted on them, as posting on them in general has gotten easier and I am using them more. But fixing them so they are better connected to each other (and e pluribus haiku ads don't lead off into no-longer-available books) - well, that's still a little overwhelming. Let's just say there's plenty of work to be done.
Making them into an active system that actually feeds into sales? That's looking like a dim hope, at this point. December I traditionally use to put family pictures up there, and then bury them so search bots don't find my kids and relatives. I am still embarrassed that some of the kids' pics I put up there are so widely circulated; I just hope nobody can figure out who those kids are, or how to find them. things are getting so every move is tracked these days - somebody somewhere knows where this picture came from, and can find the original, if they apply themselves. In that environment all I can hope for is that the people I want to see the pictures still can, while those I don't want, can't tell who they are or how to find them.
Lots of blogs, increasingly less time, as the holidays descend.
I have goals for developing the blogs - a way I want them to look and to be connected to each other and to crucial places on Amazon where people could be buying my books. But I had a slowdown this month where, while I intended to spend the last half of the month upgrading them, as I did in October, I just didn't feel like doing that over the Thanksgiving holidays, and didn't. I posted on them, as posting on them in general has gotten easier and I am using them more. But fixing them so they are better connected to each other (and e pluribus haiku ads don't lead off into no-longer-available books) - well, that's still a little overwhelming. Let's just say there's plenty of work to be done.
Making them into an active system that actually feeds into sales? That's looking like a dim hope, at this point. December I traditionally use to put family pictures up there, and then bury them so search bots don't find my kids and relatives. I am still embarrassed that some of the kids' pics I put up there are so widely circulated; I just hope nobody can figure out who those kids are, or how to find them. things are getting so every move is tracked these days - somebody somewhere knows where this picture came from, and can find the original, if they apply themselves. In that environment all I can hope for is that the people I want to see the pictures still can, while those I don't want, can't tell who they are or how to find them.
Lots of blogs, increasingly less time, as the holidays descend.
