Heck, where’s Larry Tate?<\/p>\n
My free Blog Ad <\/a>over at Ghost of a Flea <\/a>has drawn an amazing click-thru rate of 0.597%, or 7 clicks on 1173 pageviews. Which is mildly disappointing, but emblematic of either (a) why I’m not in the ad biz, or (b) why I don’t bother advertising my site.<\/p>\n The fact is, to be a great (or even moderate) success in the blog world, viz.<\/i> lots of hits, you need to be strongly dedicated to a particular topic: politics, hi-tech, whatever. Even being dedicated to Warm & Fuzzy Domestic Bliss can be successful, if you’re a good writer. But you need to both draw an audience, become the “best” at something, and then keep them. Going the scatter-gun approach like here just doesn’t do it, as folks who think my political comments are faboo go through occasional dry spells, people who think my gaming stuff is worth a repeat visit get turned off by my occasional religious screeds, and people who enjoy my comic book reviews wonder why I haven’t written one in three months.<\/p>\n But (to echo a theme from yesterday), my only mission here is to talk about what’s catching my eye, ear, or brain. Stream-of-life. Which, ultimately, is probably only interesting to a small set of people, since my life is not (I will be the first to admit) not that interesting to anyone who’s not living it.<\/p>\n Hmmm. Maybe some comic book reviews tonight …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Heck, where’s Larry Tate? My free Blog Ad over at Ghost of a Flea has drawn an amazing click-thru rate of 0.597%, or 7 clicks on 1173 pageviews. 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