Monday, December 01, 2025
Dec. 1 blog update
If blog visits are mostly shopping-driven, I should be seeing a spike in all blogs about this time. Instead, the pure visits are up a little from last month (this represents NOV, but last month represented OCT), while the averages are down slightly, reflecting that Nov. was slightly. not as good as Aug. What is working its way through the system is the Sept. numbers, which were so unbelievably high that I'm still saying "carousel or what???" and assuming, probably, yes carousel. Blogger puts them on this random carousel in which all blog cruisers get a good wide view of all kinds of blogs, and mine get on there together as the bot machine just lifts them straight on there when it's their turn. It's questionable whether random visitors behave any differently from intentional google-clickers, who are attracted to your blog title and whatever they read of whatever they are looking for. But although sales increased slighty in Sept., and it seemed to be random ones, I wouldn't go so far as to say thousands of blog visits amount to anything at all.
In any case because of that huge September a lot of running averages are still over a thousand, this one being a good example at 2208. An average of 2208 people visit this blog every month, and, do they buy anything? Do they even read down this far into the second paragraph? Do they stay long enough to figure out what this blog is about? To be fair it's about a dozen things and some of them are deeply buried inside the thing which is where any given visitor could have landed. But it makes me wonder because averages of a thousand or more run through the system and the same thing applies to them. The main blog is at 22,562 visitors a month average (SEPT/OCT/NOV added and divided by 3). That blog got over 58,000 visitors in Sept. alone. But of the 28 personal blogs, only six got over a thousand in Nov. And that is actually much more typical.
I'm failing in some of my personal goals. This month I shot out and did well in the first week but by the end still didn't get my twelve different blogs updated; got only ten, and that was in spite of wanting to finish and just being too tired at night. The writing is even worse. I simply don't pick it up in the morning when I actually have the time, but am totally exhausted. form driving around in the snow, but by evening i'm too busy to get myself oriented to the project and do what needs to be done. I'm spinning my wheels.
I am doing my numbers though, and that's why I'm here. Have a good holiday! Buy indie!
In any case because of that huge September a lot of running averages are still over a thousand, this one being a good example at 2208. An average of 2208 people visit this blog every month, and, do they buy anything? Do they even read down this far into the second paragraph? Do they stay long enough to figure out what this blog is about? To be fair it's about a dozen things and some of them are deeply buried inside the thing which is where any given visitor could have landed. But it makes me wonder because averages of a thousand or more run through the system and the same thing applies to them. The main blog is at 22,562 visitors a month average (SEPT/OCT/NOV added and divided by 3). That blog got over 58,000 visitors in Sept. alone. But of the 28 personal blogs, only six got over a thousand in Nov. And that is actually much more typical.
I'm failing in some of my personal goals. This month I shot out and did well in the first week but by the end still didn't get my twelve different blogs updated; got only ten, and that was in spite of wanting to finish and just being too tired at night. The writing is even worse. I simply don't pick it up in the morning when I actually have the time, but am totally exhausted. form driving around in the snow, but by evening i'm too busy to get myself oriented to the project and do what needs to be done. I'm spinning my wheels.
I am doing my numbers though, and that's why I'm here. Have a good holiday! Buy indie!
