Wednesday, May 01, 2024
May 1 blog report
It's Mayday and time to enjoy the spring quick before it turns too hot. Blogs for whatever reason are doing great. 27 out of 28 personal, and 7 out of 8 commercial, all up, some up substantially. Why are people all visiting my blog in April? (or conversely, failing to visit in January, which no longer figures in the average) - on the shopping theory (most blog traffic is driven by shopping, even if they open yours mostly out of idle curiosity), it can be explained simply: January is a wretched month (no money, no shopping) while April at least offers hope (tax return). April is better than January, so averages (3-month, in this case FEB/MAR/APR) are up.
In some cases they're way up, and the system is looking healthy at least in terms of visitors. Nine average over a thousand; only four anemic ones are under a hundred. They don't seem to encourage much in the way of book sales; I'm still working on that. I'm not even sure they are very well attached to my "brand," i.e. that people who read them are even aware that I am an author and have these books out there. I write most of them for my own purposes: to clarify my thoughts on issues, to say things to the world that I don't go out there and say. I am so radical that just dropping my opinion in public rarely works or goes over well, but I feel better at the end of the yssday if I at least express it somewhere, and people are about as likely to read it on a blog and take it seriously as when they hear it.
It's a system, and one of its biggest benefits is that the longer it survives the better its ratings get in the search engines, where they value titles that express what they are about, and a clear purpose. Beyond that their success is mostly measured by how much I'm using them, and I'm working on that too of course.
In some cases they're way up, and the system is looking healthy at least in terms of visitors. Nine average over a thousand; only four anemic ones are under a hundred. They don't seem to encourage much in the way of book sales; I'm still working on that. I'm not even sure they are very well attached to my "brand," i.e. that people who read them are even aware that I am an author and have these books out there. I write most of them for my own purposes: to clarify my thoughts on issues, to say things to the world that I don't go out there and say. I am so radical that just dropping my opinion in public rarely works or goes over well, but I feel better at the end of the yssday if I at least express it somewhere, and people are about as likely to read it on a blog and take it seriously as when they hear it.
It's a system, and one of its biggest benefits is that the longer it survives the better its ratings get in the search engines, where they value titles that express what they are about, and a clear purpose. Beyond that their success is mostly measured by how much I'm using them, and I'm working on that too of course.
