Let me share a snapshot of my WordPress control screen.
A couple fun facts. 473 posts in a year and a half. Not bad, eh? But look at those TAGS!?$#@$! 7,727 tags. That's redic. But at the same time, fun. I use tags to enrich the SEO content, to encourage alternative forms of linking and navigation of uber.la AND mostly for fun. Tagging for fun not for profit. When I write a tag "wadd'm I thinkin?" it's not because I'm going to thread a lot of posts with that tag, but more likely I am poking fun at myself and this whole business of blogging.
And then there's the comments. 463, that's only ten less than my number of posts. That's pretty ding-dang bing-bong good. Even if some of those are pokey.
So you might notice that I don't DO any advertising or adwords on uber.la. So if I'm not looking to make a profit, or even a trickle via adwords, what in the world am I doing?
While I can't point to a single dollar that has come through uber.la I can tell you my referrals though this website are huge. New clients, former clients, and past clients have probably been influenced (positively or negatively) by my writing here. I don't aways do the smart thing. Sometimes I go too far. But I like what one new business referral said about uber.la. "You can see right there on the home page, what he's about." I wear it on my sleeve, I publish and unpublish on hot topics. Mostly I give voice to things that I find, funny, interesting or important.
I don't pick on Dell on purpose, but it just so happens in my two years with them I learned more about Corporate America than I had in my previous 15 years of work combined.
So I honestly hope you find something of value here. I hope you come back. I hope you join me on Twitter. Oh, and see that little stats chart there. You can see when I published and tweeted by the spikes in traffic. If nothing else, Twitter does get some people to the site. Are they reading? Are they influenced by me? Do I provide value?
This chart from yesterday shows a spike in number of posts read relative to visits. That shows that visitors are coming and finding more to read. And that's cool.
Something in the number of comments suggests the answer is yes. I may get passed up for that next corp position due to some of my loud opinions. But if they are scared by a strong personality, they probably would not have been a good fit in the first place. I am 100% social and present. What you read is what you get. I hope to see you again soon. Real soon.
@jmacofearth
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And that WAS 165 users on my blog at one time! I had just written about a pre-release copy of Snow Leopard. Lot's of folks were looking for just that kind of info. My hosting company, A2, was overwhelmed and my blog was intermittently unreachable for the next week. When you have a HIT POST you have to capitalize on it.
