Last year after that first GoDaddy Superbowl commercial, I wrote a post here about it here. I guess that was a big deal again this year, because I see in my stats that that post jumped up in popularity after the Superbowl. I usually check my site statistics often, but I'm still pretty bad at figuring out how to interpret them or use them to make my sites better. Sometimes I look at what content is popular and then try to do more of that, but that's probably a bad strategy. For one thing, it's reactive, so I'll always be behind whatever's popular. Plus, writing about GoDaddy didn't really bring me a lot more traffic, just enough to become the most popular content for last week, which isn't saying much considering I'm not that popular. It's like being the winner of a... Wait that's not PC. So anyway, for me to write more about things that get a lot of traffic on my blog already would just get me a little bit more traffic, I think.
I guess it's also difficult to get regular visitors since I'm blogging about such random disconnected topics. The only thing that all of my posts have in common are that they have something to do with me. So I wonder if I should focus on a tighter topic, like IT news or web stuff, or some other nerdy topic, but there's already way too much of that on the web and I can't compete on that.
I had a point to make somewhere in this. Oh yeah, I was wondering if I should try to better cater to popular stuff or still try to hang on to the way I'm doing things now. I'm thinking of doing both. I think killkaraoke has the same problem of disconnected random topics, and I've been considering having some spin off blogs on specific topics, like a TV blog because I think of a lot of TV things to write about. But Alex likes the way the posts are just about everything. I'm not sure if that's killing our audience (since the variety of topics are too general) or if there really are enough people like us who like the stuff we're writing. I think most of the people who visit killkaraoke do so every now and then, and are people who know us in real life. I'm not sure if they even read a majority of our stuff. I don't think we get regular visitors, other than Alex and me. Hopefully I can come up with some new ideas and fix that. I mean I'd like to be useful and interesting to other people.
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