Touching base
Posted by Michael Walsh (Check me out!) on June 18th, 2007
Tagged as: Asides, Gab Gab Gab
This blog is becoming a bit of a joke for certain aspects, a war casualty for others.
It wasn’t my intention to have a blog explode on me but The Acer Guy really has taken me by surprise. In the space of one month, the average number of unique daily visitors has risen from an average of 50 to over 400 and this trend doesn’t look like it’s going to ease up any time soon.
All this with the “paid” job becoming more and more, emm, involving.
It’s been a fascinating trip, even more so as it’s a one-man public show. I’m having so much fun staying up with the conversations that it’s very hard to make any real progress with user tracking, Adsense CTR and all that jazz.
The one thing I have noticed, as this is as big a surprise as the growth in visitor numbers, is the fact that the biggest Adsense earner is in fact off-site. That’s right, the Swicki generates at least 3 times the Adsense revenue of the other income streams.
I have a theory for this: The Swicki is a way for users to fine tune their searches once they arrive on a site. But the Swicki results page is a mess, so users click on the fastest way out… Adsense. It’s not quite what I had in mind when I created it so I’ll have to look into a way to clean it up a little.
This is more like me ringing home to touch base than me saying anything shocking but that’s the way things go online I guess.
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RichardatDELL wrote:
Michael my friend,
May I remind you of something? To quote you and para-phrasing others: “Who you are and what you do aren’t necessarily the same thing.”…think youll find the quote just a few posts below this one.
Listen, I am thrilled for TAG….think its a great business for you, you are doing good work and always thrilled that others in the business join the blogosphere…even in a sort of back door way.
Therefore, just a nudge. Yes you are doing great professional things with TAG. But that has a focus, its what you do.
This is YOU. Its free wheeling, exploring, web adventures of your personal, intellectual curiousity and insight. That comes through here. From videos to gaping Void commentary to reviews of search tools or just where you go to get some energy and creative boosts… and it doesnt have to kill you,time wise. Your readers understand….go do good TAG work…but dont ignore YOU.
This endeth the lesson