Beating the system
I’ve been surfing a few traffic exchange services in order to drive traffic to my own blog. The services make you wait twenty to thirty seconds before moving on. If you surf to fast, you don’t earn your credits.
I would get bored just waiting for my time to pass or forget about it all together. So I signed up for five of them and just keep moving between browser windows to surf the next blog. This takes all the fun out of it and I begin to realize that this is probably what many of the people who hit my own website through these programs are doing.
Blog Explosion
Blog Crowd
Blog Clicker
Hit Safari
Wolf Surfer
This just goes to prove to me once again that the real drive behind visitors to my site is collaboration and networking. I’m going to have to get out there and talk to people on there blogs one-on-one by leaving feedback to stories. Of course, you can’t just leave any feedback. I’ll have to actually read, comprehend, and have a good opinion to leave behind.
Oh, this is going to take too long. I’ll just have to limit myself to just using one for now on and interact with the sites that I visit.
Why can’t I just be famous? Why do I have to do all this extra work for people to come to my website? And … Why do I want people to come here? I think that is the biggest question. I started this blog with the intent of just writing about my life for a reference to look back on. Why do I have this desire for everyone else to read about it?
January 28th, 2005 at 4:24 am
I feel your pain….
January 28th, 2005 at 4:43 am
Hit exchanges work. I’m reading your blog right now which I must say is very entertaining.
January 28th, 2005 at 6:05 am
Yes, I ask myself that every day.
January 28th, 2005 at 7:03 am
I read this post, and if the rest of even half your post are as thought as this one, chances are I will be back. Pretty critical of me, if you ask me, Because only one in five of my posts are worth reading.. Keep on bloggin man,
January 28th, 2005 at 3:25 pm
I think you should continue your desparate cries for visitors … pathetic is good. If you want to get hits to your site try putting a “Free Find” (freefind.com) search on your site and it gets spidered all the time for free. Then you get all kinds of search engine hits!