Saturday, January 04, 2025
Jan. 1, on Jan. 4
I took a while to write this one. I did the numbers on the first, but then things came up and I got distracted.
Blog traffic was actually a little down, and especially down if you consider that, by my theory, if blog traffic is driven by shopping, it should be up or way up. Maybe people's shopping is over by Dec. 1, or at least their searching, but November wasn't that hot either. So it's time to face the facts and do something about it.
The fact is that it's hard to actually get in the habit of using them, when I'm so busy, so for two months in a row I've been posting on the 31st just to make sure I have a dozen different blogs in a month. And I have, like 28 of them, with only a few on topics that I have nothing to say about. So I should be able to get into a slightly better groove and actually do more. Of course I have that problem with several things: pamphlet-making, quilt-making (dormant for a couple years), actual writing (in the middle of a novel & just can't finish), etc. It may be part of a wider depression that is clamping down just as winter clamps down.
The blogs are, in fact, a pretty good place to put pop art, and I'm a pop artist. I'm a pop artist whose main venues are book covers and blogs. I don't use the pop gallerie site nearly enough because I'm just not organized well to use it. When I make things I like I use tom's grill so there's a general record of what I'm up to. But I don't put nearly enough up there and it shows in sluggish viewer totals I think.
The galesburg site is catching on. There is a little good news in there. All I can do is carry on; I'll know when I can use something to reverse this sluggish trend.
Blog traffic was actually a little down, and especially down if you consider that, by my theory, if blog traffic is driven by shopping, it should be up or way up. Maybe people's shopping is over by Dec. 1, or at least their searching, but November wasn't that hot either. So it's time to face the facts and do something about it.
The fact is that it's hard to actually get in the habit of using them, when I'm so busy, so for two months in a row I've been posting on the 31st just to make sure I have a dozen different blogs in a month. And I have, like 28 of them, with only a few on topics that I have nothing to say about. So I should be able to get into a slightly better groove and actually do more. Of course I have that problem with several things: pamphlet-making, quilt-making (dormant for a couple years), actual writing (in the middle of a novel & just can't finish), etc. It may be part of a wider depression that is clamping down just as winter clamps down.
The blogs are, in fact, a pretty good place to put pop art, and I'm a pop artist. I'm a pop artist whose main venues are book covers and blogs. I don't use the pop gallerie site nearly enough because I'm just not organized well to use it. When I make things I like I use tom's grill so there's a general record of what I'm up to. But I don't put nearly enough up there and it shows in sluggish viewer totals I think.
The galesburg site is catching on. There is a little good news in there. All I can do is carry on; I'll know when I can use something to reverse this sluggish trend.
