Some Knowledge

I am noticing a downward spiral in my blog traffic.  It’s been a couple days since I wrote any posts.  Apparently, people find your writing based on when it was published.  I am still getting hits on a few older posts that I wrote about games, but aside from this, my overall traffic is down 80% from a week ago.

It might just be the vagaries of the web, but it seems like when I put up a lot of articles I get more people looking at my blog.  I guess this makes sense in that WordPress has a directory of recent posts that you can look through to find interesting stuff.  Less publicity, fewer people finding my blog.

I guess if I want a lot of traffic I should post something that a lot of people are interested in.  I don’t really care so much about what is popular.  I’m not the society page.  I’ve done experiments on stuff that has some popularity on the web, but none of this drew a lot of traffic to this site.  I’m going to stop caring so much about traffic.  I’m not selling anything here.  I have no advertisements up that make me money when random people click on them.

It does seem that when you post a lot of material more people find your site.  It’s just a question of looking at the numbers.  Even at the best this blog has done I got less than one view per page of content per day.  Some of my posts have not even been read once.  I care because?

If it’s just a question of numbers, I could start adding articles from other sources.  But then this will not be my own words anymore.  I’m thinking that’s not the best idea.  I want to have copyright to whatever I write.  Posting stuff on a blog is maybe not the best way to maintain rights to your material.  I’ve seen my stuff scraped and listed under fictional writers names on splogs and link sites.  So for now I’m just going to be a bit random and type whatever I happen to think about.  There may be no market for what I write, but if it’s up on the directory boards somebody will possibly look at it.