Preliminary results are in for the performance of the ads. In order to generate something resembling a living income, I’d need to bump up page views slightly. Just a little bit. A minor amount. A factor of only 50 or so.
Gah.
Any suggestions?
Since I started the blog, there’s been a grand total of *one* day when viewership was that high. And that was based on THIS blog posting. The reason why it generated so many views was because it got picked up by FARK.com. Sadly, I post news scoops about internet memes only once a decade or so.
Sales of the drawings & documents have been falling for a few years now; I made a major strategic error with the Dirt Cheap Documents. As soon as I offered those, sales of the other documents essentially ceased. It makes sense… why spend five bucks for a document when you could spend 50 cents for another. Sigh. And Aerospace Projects Review has similarly crashed… the last issue only sold about 40 copies. Bleah. This is why I’ve been more focussed on getting the display model biz up and running again, and working on books for actual publication. But if I could get the blog viewership numbers up, I’d start offering up new high-rez drawings and docs *here* for free, converting from a “selling” business to an “advertising” business. But after three years of the blog, I’m still two orders of magnitude low. Once again… suggestions welcomed.
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As far as attracting people to your blog:
1) Post controversial things
2) Post things that can’t be found anywhere else
3) Get you blog mentioned in some major print magazines or major blogs (that’s how I find most of the blogs I frequent)
4) Porn (make people think your site is a porn site)
You’ve found yourself in the dilemma of what many people with blogs and websites face: How do I get more traffic? Unfortunately, there is no quick and easy solutions.
> 1) Post controversial things
Sadly, I never post controversial opinions. Everything is firmly rooted in common sense.
> 3) Get you blog mentioned in some major print magazines or major blogs
If I only knew how.
> 4) Porn (make people think your site is a porn site)
Without it actually *being* porn…
Common sense can be controversial — just think about how many people don’t use it! And how many complaints you would get for expressing “common-sense” views.
Think about it, if people has common sense these days there wouldn’t be half the news we have and we wouldn’t have Obama in office.
“> 3) Get you blog mentioned in some major print magazines or major blogs
If I only knew how.”
A murderous rampage through the desert should do the trick.
When captured, make sure to say that cat brain parasites made you do it:
http://www.pathobio.sdu.edu.cn/sdjsc/engparabook/ch084.htm
…and that Obama is responsible. This should guarantee coverage on Fox News and across the blogosphere.
“Preliminary results are in for the performance of the ads. In order to generate something resembling a living income, I’d need to bump up page views slightly. Just a little bit. A minor amount. A factor of only 50 or so.
Gah.
Any suggestions?”
Change focus of blog to racy photos of Christina Hendricks?
In the past you did produce models I wanted to buy, but could not at the time. The two you have do not interest me in particular as I am 1/72 and 1/48 Spacecraft and 1/144 boosters and spacecraft, with the occassional 1/72 one tossed in.
There might well be a few ways to increase readership that do involve “getting the word out” in certain circles.
Try submitting photos and “how to” articles to some of the hobby/model making mags.
Share some of your cat stories and pictures with some of “Cat Rescue/Humane shelter” mags(Especially the ones about your feral visitors).
Submit some of your panoramic nature shots to Mag’s put out like AAA Roadway, Sunset and other travel types.
Try some of the “Patriotic” mags for organizations like the American Legion, B.P.O. Elks and the VFW.
Consider buying adds for the technical drawings/blueprints & photos in mag’s such as Popular Mechanics.
Afriad I can’t help. I was draw in by the ink in Aerospace Projects Review (which I bought all of).
Get yourself quoted on Clarks RLVNEWS.com site?
::sigh::
Good luck with the model busness?
Did you ever try marketing your CGI models on Turbo squid or something?