Last year I had a bit of luck and got a few hits on a couple of Popular Posts, well, for me anyway. These posts kept my daily visitors at around 1,000 and often over a 1,000 a day. I know, you scoff at my measly 1,000 hits a day. Muhahah! I get that before breakfast! You say with justifiable contempt. Or maybe you’re one of those bloggers whose hits all come from you checking your stats every hour. I was there in the beginning as well. But now that I have a couple of years under my belt and…
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Blogging and Free Stuff
Seth Godin talks about freebies for bloggers in his book Meatball Sundae. He says that an office chair manufacturer send him an email saying they would like to send him a chair and ask that he review it-and give them a link to their website. He says its a six hundred dollar chair, but that doing a paid review for an office chair would not fit in with his overall business plans. It isn’t scalable and it would just drive his regular readers away. He goes on to say that the people making the chairs should look for blogs that…
Do You Have A Real Job?
Get a haircut and get a real jobClean your act up and don’t be a slobGet it together like your big brother BobWhy don’t you get a haircut and get a real job? George Thorogood I have always wanted to be a writer, but have never had the patience for it. Which, of course, means that I don’t really want to be a writer-right? Sitting down and banging out that thousand words a day would be easier than being a portrait photographer, wouldn’t it? There is something to be said for the old days when you were told what you…
Comments? We Don’t Need No Stinken Comments
“First.” “first” “First!” Top comments on most popular blogs-Little Green Footballs has banned this silly and pointless practice. I wrote a blog post on Altered States of Consciousness and this post got around 13000 hits. For me this is the current record. I know, small potatoes for the Perez Hiltons and Boing Boings of the world. This story was on the front page of FARK. It got a handful of Diggs. It even got a few random Googlers looking at it. So, how many comments did I get from these 13000 or so visitors? On my blog, I got 5…
When Fish Fly-On Becoming World Famous
Reviewed by the World Famous If You Write It Blog During a recent meeting our Boss asked us-How many of you want to work here next year? One person out of ten raised their hand. There is a lot of money here, just not for us. There is a lot of hard work and a lot of long hours-that is for us. As with most companies, the front line people, the ones that the actual customers get to interact with-are the ones that get paid the least and have the least reason to make a good impression. The Home Office…
An Anti-Social Blogger Speaks
I made this image using a Poser Figure in Bryce, she looks a bit lonely, don’t you think? It is easy to blog in a vacuum. You look at Google Trends or Yahoo Buzz and crank out a post about whatever nonsense is going on in the world at the moment. Following this model has gotten me most of my traffic over the past few months. Want traffic? Blog about Vanessa Anne Hudgens. Really. My highest viewed post is about the naked Vanessa Anne Hudgens photos. I really should delete it, the yahoos who stop by don’t care what I…