I’ve had a few friends here and there ask me recently why I stopped updating this little side blog. I wanted to put one last entry up with an explanation. While I had a grand old time creating a new look and blog, at the end of the day I have too many pots cooking on my stovetop.
And to post here when I have so many other posts I need to do for work, well it just wasn’t happening long term. Especially when I started to see some (albeit minor) traffic here and thought, why am I sending traffic somewhere other than my main business site?
I know, I know. So annoying. And so many of you told me that you loved having personal ad-free blogs. I love those blogs. But the reality is, it’s just too much for me. For now anyway.
That said, I really enjoyed finally having some freedom beyond product reviews! So because of that, I’ve decided to fold any personal posts into Mommies with Style. I’ve created a new category for Whitney’s Personal Blog that will probably only get read by my Mom, but at least leaves the door open to my posting beyond products.
So if you’re wondering what’s up, that’s the long and short of it. I don’t think I’ll be back here but who knows – clearly I change my mind as often as I pour myself a glass of wine, so…
Web Traffic, Comments & Other Facets of Owning a Blog I Find Curious
Yesterday, I posted some quick thoughts about my reaction to the death of Bin Laden in regard to telling my children. I had two comments here on the blog although to be fair, I should note that I had several comments on my Mommies with Style Facebook page about it.
In terms of general comments, I didn’t have very many compared to some of the other posts I’ve put up here but it was the most traffic I had in one single day by threefold. At least. I had to double check my Google Analytics twice because I thought it was a mistake. I would have never know had I not checked my stats.
I find that totally curious. Does that mean people came over, agreed and had nothing to say so they left? Or they came, disagreed but didn’t want to comment and left? (I highly doubt that – usually if people disagree they are willing to tell you!)
Maybe it’s the Sociology major in me but I find the business of web traffic, comments and what gets people to come out of their shell really fascinating.
In regard to yesterday, my guess too is that there was so much out there about Bin Laden that people were just oversaturated with information online. There’s only so many times you can comment.
Still, I’m taking it on as a challenge to start experimenting and see what drives traffic but no comments, and what topics cause a higher ratio of visits to comments.