I’m New Here, part 2

April 21, 2007 · Filed Under Intro 

Read this first otherwise some of this won’t make sense.

What I’ve done is write some posts about topics that I want to cover but aren’t very time or date sensitive. Or to put it a different way they aren’t current event dependent. Instead of posting them to the site, I’ve left them in draft status so that if there is a time that I don’t necessarily feel like writing a new entry I can just use one of those pre-written posts so the blog doesn’t lie dormant for very long. Sounds like a good plan to me.

So why start this site in the first place? Well, there are a couple of reasons. First, I’m curious to see if anyone is interested in what I write. I think I have some interesting and funny opinions on (especially but not exclusively) tech topics.

Second, there are a couple of expirements that I want to try. Yes they have been done before and yes they involve AdSense. I’m interested in seeing how blogs become popular, so what I plan to do is this. Without any promotion, advertising, word of mouth, forum posts, or comments on other sites, I want to see if it is truly possible to attract visitors. So how would anyone ever find this site then you may ask. Google I suppose. Using only the Wordpress ping-o-matic feature I’m going to see how long it takes to get the first visitor to the site the 100th visitor and so on.

By the way, the “I’m New Here” post has been up ~24 hours and there were no visitors during that time. I know there was nothing groundbreaking in it for someone to find but part of the reason may have been a mistake on my part. I had the Wordpress privacy option (wp-admin>Options>Privacy) set to “ instead of allowing Google and others to index the site. So there, that’s at least one post per day that I can make just by updating you on how many visitors there have been. Yet another reason for you to come back.

I only intended the intro to be a two-parter but I haven’t covered all my reasons for starting the blog and I don’t like really long blog posts so… on to part 3.

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