Touch The Sound Of Silence: A Week Without Blogging
I haven’t blogged this week, partly because I’ve been busy and partly because I wanted to see what would happen if I didn’t. Results below.
The World
The world didn’t end; in fact, it carried on. The cheek!
Traffic
Traffic definitely dropped, by about 20%. That’s not too bad considering how silent I was. Did they see tumbleweed? Come back, traffic! Look, I baked you some cookies.
Comments
Well, of course there were fewer comments, but some came from new readers who were browsing through older posts. There’s about four months’ worth of posts on this site now, with at least three decent ones. I in turn have not commented on anyone’s site this week. That’s bad for blogging friendships and bad for traffic. Naughty.
RSS
My RSS Reader articles piled up due to non-checking and were in the hundreds by yesterday. I skimmed through the list and only opened the most exciting ones. Yes, your post was one of them. The rest? The cheat button: ‘Mark all as read’. Naughty.
Money
Ah, money. This blog has never made much money directly (it comes from people commissioning me for work). AdSense doesn’t seem to have changed at all, although I notice the ads displaying for me today have changed; Google seems confused about what this site is all about now. It is not a dating site, Google! No, don’t spider the words dating site! Doh!
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Saturday, September 29th, 2007 at 9:39 am
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Woo! First post.
September 30th, 2007 at 1:10 amWhere’s the cookies?
What, this site ISN’T about dating? I guess I have been looking for love in all the wrong places!
Darn it, I was working on a dating article hoping you would post it on your site. Looks like it’s back to the drawing board.
September 30th, 2007 at 4:20 amJust shows that once you start blogging you gotta keep blogging!!
September 30th, 2007 at 9:16 pmIt sounds like you had a good little break. Get back to blogging before your traffic tumbles even more.
October 2nd, 2007 at 5:57 amHey Minx!
GREAT to see you back! If it was a week, it was an eternity!
Keeping busy?
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:12 pmso you just came back from reality?
October 3rd, 2007 at 4:19 amwelcome back to the world of blogging! lolz
Actually, what you described is exactly why I started letting myself take weekends off.
My traffic slowed somewhat, maybe 10-20%, but honestly it was always slower on weekends, so half that is probably natural.
Somehow, people got on fine without me for two days, and they came back Monday as usual! Imagine that.
Not only that, I feel so much better without the pressure of trying to write 7 days a week!
October 8th, 2007 at 7:02 am