[Tripredacus]

RaGhul, on 17 April 2010 - 10:38 AM, said:

I'm not getting jack-squat for hits. Any ideas?

It depends on how you connect to your community. I have a website that was Transformers related and I integrated with that community. This was able to "Get the word out" in a way that plain old search results wouldn't do. I do not know how many hits I get because I haven't had stats on my website for a few years now. In fact, my current website is out of date and was only re-uploaded for the use of people in the Transformers community. I think my glory days are behind me. My best was I got 1 million hits in October 2005 and since then I wasn't really concerned about hits anymore.

[CoffeeFiend]

RaGhul, on 17 April 2010 - 10:38 AM, said:

I'm not getting jack-squat for hits. Any ideas?

Just like I said before. You're competing with over 100 million oher blogs (many of which are tech-oriented; and a new one is created every half-second or so) so your site is mostly lost in a sea of other blogs. You're also competing with dozens of well established "techy" sites (anandtech, gizmodo, engadget, etc) that have strong financial backing and a large full-time staff (and contacts with manufacturers, etc), and news aggregators too (reddit, digg, slashdot, etc).

Good luck. And yes, this is exactly why I don't have a site.

[Tripredacus]

CoffeeFiend, on 20 April 2010 - 03:30 PM, said:

RaGhul, on 17 April 2010 - 10:38 AM, said:

I'm not getting jack-squat for hits. Any ideas?

Just like I said before. You're competing with over 100 million oher blogs (many of which are tech-oriented; and a new one is created every half-second or so) so your site is mostly lost in a sea of other blogs. You're also competing with dozens of well established "techy" sites (anandtech, gizmodo, engadget, etc) that have strong financial backing and a large full-time staff (and contacts with manufacturers, etc), and news aggregators too (reddit, digg, slashdot, etc).

Good luck. And yes, this is exactly why I don't have a site.

You should make a website about Coffee. I imagine much less competition!

[CoffeeFiend]

Tripredacus, on 23 April 2010 - 01:13 PM, said:

You should make a website about Coffee. I imagine much less competition!

You'd be surprised... There's a few pretty good sites out there, and there's only so much to say about that besides [fairly subjective] equipment reviews. I'll just stick to drinking the stuff