Well I’ve been doing this updates-every-Monday-and-Thursday thing for nearly two months now, and traffic to my site seems to have actually slowed down. Of course I’m judging traffic by number of comments, so this could also have to do with the most frequent commenter being pretty busy lately. There are still a lot of lurkers, because when I was at the beach for a week, traffic (as in, page views and bytes transferred) did not decrease by as much as I had expected (i.e., I do not account for the majority of page views on my own site).
So are two posts a week too much? Should I just go back to posting whenever I feel like it? I’m thinking I’ll keep posting on Mondays, but only post on Thursdays when I have something worth saying. And of course I’ll omit my post on the occasion that Stephanie posts something beforehand.
July 10, 7:00 pm
I think the problem is having a schedule in the first place. It forces you to post about stuff no one really understands instead of totally awesome things everyone wants to see. You’re giving in to the pressures of “the man”. Be free wildflower, be free!
July 10, 11:21 pm
While Jason does make some good points about your posting topics, I have a suggestion of my own. You and Stephanie should go “Bonnie and Clyde” on the city of Charlotte. It only makes sense ... y’all made it through the first year of marriage which is supposedly the toughest, and now you’re in the forgettable second year. Robbing banks and killing people will draw the two of you closer. It might even turn you on if you’re into that sort of thing. And don’t worry about your newish car ... you both are too smart to let it get shot up like in the movie.
July 11, 11:49 am
My main goal was to be able to make more frequent posts, without overwhelming visitors. I typically come up with more than two posts’ worth of stuff a week, so I keep a list of blog ideas that I may post about in the future. If updates are made regularly, it takes the guesswork out of deciding when to look for a new post. Like Penny Arcade: you know every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday they’re going to have a new comic up there (although they really need to fix their scripts to not redirect me all the time). But with Maddox’s site—if you’re like me—you stopped caring a while ago. And yes, feeds address this issue fairly well. But if 85% of people use IE, and approximately 100% of IE users don’t know what a feed is, you can’t rely on that. Besides, I made some lame posts long before I tried to blog on a regular basis. So I’m going to at least keep up the Monday posts for the time being.
As for the bank robbing thing, that seems like a good idea, especially in the second largest banking center in the country. I’m not talking Joe’s Bank On The Corner, I’m talking the Bank Of America building downtown. We’re gonna clean that mother out.