Writing in Series
posted in General |I was looking over my traffic stats for my various sites. Typical end of year stuff, you know how it is. I saw something there, in the Adsense totals that surprised me. Generally speaking, I don’t do too much worrying about the adsense details, and when I get a check from Google, it’ll be “extra money.”
Last year, Portland Parents netted me roughly as much as Frenzied Daddy. In the same ball park (You know that Google doesn’t allow us to discuss specifics). The readership for PP though is much lower; in the same span of time, FD got about 2000 hits while PP got about 200. What this tells me is that I’ve been basically right all this time; what’s important in Blogging (particularily if you’re aiming at either audience size or cash) is that you focus on your subject matter, write coherently, and use common sense when you’re chatting things up.
Portland Parents is a site where I’m trying to … build a community of parents, uh, in Portland (well, the Pacific Northwest). It was originally a forum site, but with the limited traffic, a blog works better. I’m totally open to the idea of other contributors; the crucial thing to me on that site is the sense of community. Everything on there connects to parenthood (which sort of explains the long spaces between posts; I haven’t seen anything interesting lately that works for the site). Whereas, on FD, I’ve gone from employment/business issues to technical issues, to parenthood, to complaining about banks.
Which leads me to my title. I’ve been reading the Simple Dollar. I have a few of Dave Ramsey’s books, and I’m trying to figure this money crap out. I was hurting for ideas for the PP site (and generally speaking, am always open to suggestions), and over the Christmas Season, I wrote a series of “stuff to do with your kid(s).” After reading so many other serieses (serii), I’m not sure why this was my first ever “Serial” set of posts. It was interesting to do; and I was able to do them all at once and have them trickle in over the span I set up (the magic of post-dated posts!).
