Throughout the past couple of years this blog has gone through a few droughts and surges in readership. Right now is kind of a drought. The reason is different than for past droughts, though. I blame the recent slowness on Facebook.
I figure that if most people are like me, they have their websites that they regularly visit, and they rarely go outside those sites. Occasionally a website will get added to the list, but that usually means another gets visited less frequently. Since a lot of people are checking Facebook more frequently, that has reduced some of traffic to mine and a few other of the blogs.
I am kind of in a quandry with this. I could link to my blog through Facebook and send notifications about new posts there. This is something that Dash has been dabbling with. I feel weird about sharing this blog with potentially anyone I may have been mildly acquainted with at any point in my life, though. I went into this in a little more detail a couple of years ago. I have been very purposeful in who I have alerted to this site simply because I want to be able to let my guard down a bit. I definitely would have to go through and review what I have already posted before opening the floodgates like that, because I am sure there are things that I might not have said in the same way in some of my worlds.
For now I have no intention of changing things up. Even with the current situation, I have enough readers to justify adding new content. I will continue posting and won't push this site out to more people than my comfort will allow. I'm open to new ideas for the site, though.
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I usually forget to check blogs. I at least remember to look at them once a week.
I'm a blurker. I don't post much, but I check your blog and Golden's blog pretty faithfully.
Yup, I know what you mean. I do still read, but because I'm reading more I comment less. That and with where I'm at in my life right now, I genuinely have less to say right now.
Btw, Here's a website question for you...are there any good website templates out there? I keep pushing the church's website off because I'm running in circles. The pastor and I can not find a template that we're happy with. We want basically something like blogger that I can use on our domain name and that will not have advertisements or links automatically on it. What do you think? Is that possible?
I'm still with you Dust. I have to admit, that I'm on Facebook far more than the blogs. I still want to keep blogging, even if nobody reads them. I guess it's like keeping a journal. You can go back and revisit it if you are feeling like a trip down memory land.
T, I don't work too much with templates, but I can look around. Would you be the one who would have to set up and maintain this?
Yep. That's why I'm looking for a template! Any suggestions you can give me is appreciated. Thanks D!
T
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