Quality vs. the Lack Thereof
There’s a lesson here in this blog–believe it or not.
As my handful of regular readers are quite aware, I’ve posted a lot of drivel as of late.
And, by “as of late,” that’s pretty much the past year or so.
Yet, inexplicably, it doesn’t appear to affect traffic all that much.
Sure, fewer people comment, but traffic? Yeah. It keeps going.
True, traffic is down overall, but it’s still high. I know people with blogs older than mine and with better content lately (compared to mine, lately) and they struggle to get content.
Now, there is a certain amount of traffic you can disregard. That is traffic from search engines and robots and the like. If you keep your site or blog updated, you’ll get a regular flow of them. Some stats packages will filter them out and not include them in your traffic stats; others will not. So, that’s one thing to be mindful of.
Still, past that, there’s a lot of traffic coming here.
You see, there used to be quality content here and maybe there will be again, but the point is that all those past quality articles continue to get traffic. So, I can coast a bit and still get traffic despite posting drivel.
Take Tuesday, for example. That was a high traffic day this week. All I posted were a bunch of my old tweets. But, inexplicably, traffic increased. Were they looking at that post? Did something else draw them here? Who knows? All I know is that I spent a few minutes copying and pasting and—BOOM!—high traffic day.
Yeah, probably unrelated, but the point is that quality is what counts and can even overcome a plethora of mindless posts.
Which is good because otherwise it’d just be me reading this thing.
Nah. Who am I kidding? Even I don’t read this stuff.
Sometimes I just put up a ‘filler’ post because I feel like I HAVE TO write something or people will forget me.
Sometimes, traffic almost doesn’t make sense. Things you might expect to draw a big crowd go unnoticed yet something you disregard as a worthless info might just bring rushhour traffic.