I've been going over my post list here at the blog, and I'm struggling to understand what makes a post popular and what makes a post barely get noticed. I thought of it when I saw that my most recent post last week got six views. C'mon, folks...six? I know I can't rock the universe every time, but six?!?!
The average for most of my posts is somewhere around 30 unique views. A few get more, and a couple get hundreds of unique page views, but figuring out what will go viral(at least viral in my world) is tricky. Some are predictable - my cover reveal got around 80 individual page views, and since I've touted Akeldama for quite some time, that came as no surprise. I reference Salvation Day quite a bit, so that isn't a huge surprise either, although the total number of unique page views for it certainly is. But my take on going indie versus traditional went waaaaayyyyyyyyy beyond what I thought it would. And somehow, this post on imagination - a post I found a little dry - is far and away my most popular, with over 1500 unique page views.
I guess I could try and be "edgy" with some posts, spewing venom at the world and acting all cool, but I'm not cool, and edgy can be dangerous if you piss off half(or more) of your audience. Yes, sometimes something gets up under my rear and makes me go on a tear, but that doesn't happen very often. Further, it shouldn't happen very often, for if it does, then such "edginess" merely becomes background noise.
(As a side note, being edgy all the time can be exhausting - I get worn out sometimes getting mad over whether or not my favorite team will draft the right player)
I cross post my blog to my Facebook page, so some of my views come from friends there. I used to post on a writers' forum, so that could've driven some of my early traffic. However, some posts just go off for reasons unknown to me. Others, like last week's, wallow in obscurity, like even clicking on the link will cause leprosy or something.
There's not really a point to this post - it's merely a mental exercise in a vain attempt to satisfy my curiosity. I wish I could figure it out so that I could get more "viral" posts, but as long as I'm wishing, I'd kind of like to have a pony too...
The average for most of my posts is somewhere around 30 unique views. A few get more, and a couple get hundreds of unique page views, but figuring out what will go viral(at least viral in my world) is tricky. Some are predictable - my cover reveal got around 80 individual page views, and since I've touted Akeldama for quite some time, that came as no surprise. I reference Salvation Day quite a bit, so that isn't a huge surprise either, although the total number of unique page views for it certainly is. But my take on going indie versus traditional went waaaaayyyyyyyyy beyond what I thought it would. And somehow, this post on imagination - a post I found a little dry - is far and away my most popular, with over 1500 unique page views.
I guess I could try and be "edgy" with some posts, spewing venom at the world and acting all cool, but I'm not cool, and edgy can be dangerous if you piss off half(or more) of your audience. Yes, sometimes something gets up under my rear and makes me go on a tear, but that doesn't happen very often. Further, it shouldn't happen very often, for if it does, then such "edginess" merely becomes background noise.
(As a side note, being edgy all the time can be exhausting - I get worn out sometimes getting mad over whether or not my favorite team will draft the right player)
I cross post my blog to my Facebook page, so some of my views come from friends there. I used to post on a writers' forum, so that could've driven some of my early traffic. However, some posts just go off for reasons unknown to me. Others, like last week's, wallow in obscurity, like even clicking on the link will cause leprosy or something.
There's not really a point to this post - it's merely a mental exercise in a vain attempt to satisfy my curiosity. I wish I could figure it out so that I could get more "viral" posts, but as long as I'm wishing, I'd kind of like to have a pony too...
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