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The Answer is Simple: Don’t Be a Dick - The Minuteman
It took a while for me to figure it out. I was the kid off by himself in school. Once people got to know me, they were like he's cool, it's that initial hump that's always been my problem. I do find from time to time I still feel like the kid in the corner again. I wonder now if I'm just obnoxious and disliked, well if that’s the case I also remember Mr. Adams was and I have since learned to embrace it and work it to my advantage. Note you can be both of those without being a dick. I don't blame anyone for a lack of traffic to my site, and evidently that makes me not normal. I have discovered, since I finally started writing up regularly, that if I write something the traffic will follow. Most of those complaining want instant gratification of getting hundreds of readers overnight. I know that's not going to happen. Looking at my stats on site meter and Google analytics though for the month of July, traffic was up 544% in site views over last year. Yeah the site is 3 years old, yet I didn't really start posting regularly till the beginning of this year. At which point my traffic grew by 482% from the previous month. My monthly traffic has now finally doubled what Joe gets in just daily traffic, but it is growing. The more blogs I write, the more I have out there for people to find and explore. I have figured that out and my original goal this year was a post a day. I have since modified that to average a post a day. Some times I have nothing to write about, other times I have stuff to do, and I can't stop my life for my blog. Continue reading →
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