A Milestone can be a call to reflection. I reached a milestone the other day with
this blog. I reached sixty thousand page
views. I started the blog back in May of
2010 and did not really get serious about it for a couple of years. I have made three hundred and eleven
post. I currently receive between one
thousand to fifteen hundred page views per month.
My original intent with the blog was to help pay my expenses
as I traveled around the country visiting places that interested me. That has been a dismal failure. I use Google Adsense for the income source
and at its height, Adsense produce twelve to fifteen dollars a month in
income. In recent months that amount has
decreased and has hovered at just over one dollar.
My most viewed blog post is Jaywalking In Las Vegas, Don’t Do It. This post has been viewed two
thousand two hundred and seventy-five times as of the writing of this
post. I have no idea why. I lived in Las Vegas for a while and on
average one pedestrian a week was kill while jaywalking. Most of the visits on this page come from
China. Again, I have no idea why. The second most popular post is My Last Day In Yellowstone and I Busted the Bus.
This I understand. It has almost
sixteen hundred page views.
Upon reflection I can say that my blog has been a failure at
helping fund my adventures. I think that
it is time to redefine what success means.
I may not have a cash cow here. I
do have a great record of events and people in my life. I have enjoyed writing the posts, taking
the photos and being on the journey. This
blog may not be widely read, but it will be here for my old age and for my
grandchildren. If I ever get any of
those. Come on kids, get busy.
I know that in the bloggerverse there are millions of blogs.
I am just a tiny little speck in a near infinite din of word and pictures. But I like my blog, and in the end, that’s
all the really matters.
2 comments:
I just found your blog while searching for Yellowstone information for an upcoming trip and I was sucked into your adventures! I hope you have a great summer in MAine, and I look forward to reading about them.
Thanks for the commet Becky. Yellowstone is an amazing place and I know that you will love it.
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