Garfield Ridge

So, the wise Sobekpundit has discovered the "Ace of Spades" effect, with his site garnering visits from a productive link.

Sobek acts surprised, but hey, visits follow quality.

However, I let him know that it gets worse, a lot worse.

I too was content with getting a few dozen hits a day. Then Allah links to me one weekend (that whole North Korean nuke test thing a few weeks back), and my visits shot through the roof, well over 100 hits an hour for days. I now have about 10,000 more hits than I thought I'd ever get-- certainly not 400,000 hits Ace gets in a month, but a helluva lot of visits for only being up for little over a month.

The problem is, seeing that many visits show up in your site meter is addictive. You become a little blog monkey, repeatedly posting, looking for those magic postings that will dispense page visits like crack pellets into a monkey's cage.


Need. . . more. . . page visits. . .

The trouble is, the moment you become a slave to page visits, you become a slave to ratings, and you no longer post what *you* want to post, but what you think others will want to read. There's honor in that, I guess; but it kinda defeats the whole point of the blog, ya know?

Ace has noticed it too, hence his new "all Miami Vice, all the time" posting philosophy.

Writing about politics everyday takes a lot of you, especially when there are a hundred websites that do it better. Why should I spend my time covering Rathergate? It's the internet, just link it. I need to write *my* thoughts, *my* content.

To paraphrase Baggar Vance, every blogger has to find their swing.

That's why I am now committed to increasing my blogging on the following subjects:

-- The ape threat.
-- Implosions.
-- Toilets from around the world.
-- Midgets.
-- Little horses.
-- Midgets who ride little horses.

That's not just the quality you expect from Garfield Ridge, it's the quality you deserve.

Well, anyways-- good for Sobek on the hit jump. May it continue!

# posted by Dave @ 13:46