Lets Light This Place Up

[ronnie]

Originally Posted by artwilliams

What always seems to escape me is how delayed are the traffic impacts when I make a strategic change to my blog? My traffic and conversion has been shit since spring. I've made some changes and traffic is up a bit (with conversions still poor). So is the traffic increase due to my changes? If so, which ones and why didn't conversions change at all? Man, I don't get this traffic thing.

I remember you posted some time back about how your blog was doing good, it was a great post. So the question is, have you still been doing the same as you were back then? Has your blog changed alot?

Not giving you a hard time, just thinking maybe it's something you've changed, stopped doing or are doing differently?

[ArtWilliams]

Quite simple I think. I took my eye off the blog and I started working on other adult projects. My entries began to get sploggy and people disappeared. I agree with what UW said. Blogs are a lot of work. I intend on refocusing on the site and I hope to see the site visits climb. We'll see.

Originally Posted by ronnie

I remember you posted some time back about how your blog was doing good, it was a great post. So the question is, have you still been doing the same as you were back then? Has your blog changed alot?

Not giving you a hard time, just thinking maybe it's something you've changed, stopped doing or are doing differently?

[Useless]

Originally Posted by artwilliams

I took my eye off the blog and I started working on other adult projects. My entries began to get sploggy and people disappeared.

You probably suffer from the same type of blogging personality that I have. I get an idea, I get excited, I blow my creative load on it for a short period, and then find it difficult to get those same juices flowing when it's time to maintain it properly. I work in spurts in sputters.

[ArtWilliams]

I am a bit like that. I want to do what catches my eye and not necessarily what makes money. Thank God my wife is better at doing the latter or we'd be fucked!

I also thought, if I can make $x with a blog then I can make $x times 5 with another blog, a link list, a directory and some mobile porn. What I found was that you can only work on so many things well. Turns out important things get neglected. What makes me feel stupid is I consciously decided to "put all my eggs in one basket" and then went and did the opposite. Now I need to see if I can fix it.

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

You probably suffer from the same type of blogging personality that I have. I get an idea, I get excited, I blow my creative load on it for a short period, and then find it difficult to get those same juices flowing when it's time to maintain it properly. I work in spurts in sputters.

[walrus]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

Yeah, I've never quite understood why free hosted blogs are considered legitimate while other free hosted properties are heavily frowned upon.

While I can't say for sure I would assume that it has a lot to do with how the blogging craze took off in the first place. To have your own blog on your own domain required you be a real nerdie / techie type. It was all cgi/perl, flat files and quite a challenge to get one up and running. You know pre-wordpress days.

Your choice was become a nerd or go with a free host. Once the free hosts started kicking porn off, it opened up a whole new area for someone like twan to take advantage of and he did.

I guess my point is porn blogging roots are in free hosts.

Originally Posted by artwilliams

Quite simple I think. I took my eye off the blog and I started working on other adult projects. My entries began to get sploggy and people disappeared. I agree with what UW said. Blogs are a lot of work. I intend on refocusing on the site and I hope to see the site visits climb. We'll see.

Very easy to do and I know I've been guilty of the same thing more than once and yes blogging is a lot of work.