Discontinuation of Blogging
The traffic on theajblog.com and aj-software.net since January 1. The spike is the result of being featured on hackszine.com.
What?
You heard me right. Due to time constraints, just to name one of many factors, I have decided that it is in the best interest of my own health to discontinue the frequent use of my blog. I may still blog occasionally, but not anywhere near the every-other-day it has been. To my understanding, there are currently 13 readers who have subscribed to my RSS feedburner feed. To them, I say this: thank you. Thank you for taking part of your valuable time to read what I have to say and my opinion in this world. Thank you for listening. Each and every one of those 13, you encouraged me. Much appreciated. And to the 1.2 thousand visitors since the beginning of the year, I hope you enjoyed it as much as I intended.
The Previous Saga
So, there’s a story behind everything that’s happened so far. Almost three months ago, I began to read the book How to Make Money With Your Blog (ISBN 0071508570). One of the most critical factors there, along with getting good links in, was to blog frequently. I decided to do an experiment, and post every other day, monitoring visitors with Google Analytics. Extremely little change for about a month. One day, of course in the shower, I imagined a relatively wonderful idea for watermarking. So, I wrote about it, and then, I submitted it to hackszine.com. They were very nice. I was up there, and got almost 500 people to click through to my blog from the example provided. The sad part, however, is that that resulted in very little. As my page fell further and further down into the archives, so did my traffic. Right now it hovers around 30 peeps/day. Worst of all, I have made not a single cent off anything on this blog. Sure, someone clicked an ad, but it never accumulated to the minimum $100 payout. In the last week, my mind has been very stressed on ideas. I’m actually planning to work on a rather large other website project, hosted somewhere secretive right now.
The Future
I may blog occasionally. But for me, money from my blog is impossible. It’s no longer fun, and I spend important time writing for this when I could be doing other things. This new project is huge. It will eat my life. I’ll do it, but I can’t do it and this simultaneously. It’s like rubbing your stomach, patting your head, and playing a piano. At once.
Sorry, 13 readers. Sorry 1.2 thousand visitors. Sorry friends.
March 27th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO you must realize my grief after reading this post… however, I do understand your tight schdule, for I feel the same. I must say, I would be yelling into your ear about how sad I am about this, and I must thank you for writing all those fun posts. I want you to know that I loved all your great fun-filled articles, and I am expecting quite a lot from that new site. =( farewell!
April 9th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Long Live Darth Bane