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Date Posted: 14:06:53 05/10/01 Thu In reply to: ~Steve-o 's message, "Re: Site Statistics just suck..." on 10:22:13 05/10/01 Thu >>Yeah, Yeah, I know I've griped about this before, but >>it's just amazing to me what my statistics look like: >>The fall off rate is prodigeous, to say the least. > >Remembering, of course, that you just started, and >started with minimal fanfare and advertising no less. >Relax. Relax? RELAX!! You're telling a guy with a case-a-day habit of Diet Choke and a manic obsessive personality to relax!?!?! Ok, good idea. > >>The other part that's remarkable is the fact that for >>all of the pages, no one clicked on the Previous/Next >>links at the bottom. > >The distance between chapter posts and the fact that >there's not much of a need for new readers to "catch >up" yet could be responsible. Pah, details, details. You and your pesky "logic". > >>Being overly paranoid and borderline manic this tells >>me: >> >>one hand. > >This could very well be true, but don't sweat it. >Again, who knows you're out there besides RHOD? Oh quite a number of people, really. Oh, wait, you meant out writing this? Ah, good point. Probably as many folks as are reading it. >You've >only been listed on BitBooks a couple weeks. > >Speaking of which, have you noticed how impossible it >is to get listed on Yahoo! ? Well, I can say that those folks are insanely overworked. Unlike other sites, there's a real live human being with a real interest in a given area that is responsible for adding your link. (The removal process is automated but even then there's a real live human being responsible for putting the literal fork in a site.) When they say they get thousands of links each day, they're not kidding. A fair number of them are spams and they s-can those automatically. (So if you really want your site listed, don't send in a ton of requests, or you never will) but they still need to do a check to make sure that your site 1) exists, 2) is appropriate for the category and 3) isn't loaded up with nazis having sex. It takes time. Heck, when I submitted my site to Yahoo! back in 1995 (it's since been removed because the server got dropped) it took a few months for it to show up, and this was when folks had no idea what the web was. As you are wont to remind me, Patience grasshopper, patience. > >> >>through a chapter, and if they do, they don't feel >>inclined to click on the next chapter link. > >In my case, it's because there's no next chapter when >I finish. The past few times I came right into the >forum to see what was said about it. You and I are much alike in that regard. Explains why I post after I Post, doesn't it? > >>Speaking of which, I really do value your suggestions, >>hints, speling cheques and miscellaneous ideas for >>cliff-hangers. > >The match-heads (explosive etc.'s) was a nice touch, >but marine fuel is usually deisel. No boom. Well, if compressed it go boom. (ok, ok, it's a stretch. Basically I just kinda got stuck on the idea of setting up a powerful bomb on a pier full of incendiaries. RDX, by the way, is the principle explosive used in military ordnance. It's generally used in very small amounts. If it was used in the levels that I talked about, half of Boise would be missing.) > >Sorry. I just had to point that out. Reminded me of >the series on EpisodicReview where a bunch of people >were killed when a psycho replaced their paintballs >with with real bullets. Sooo, you're saying that my idea for a Punji ball tournement is bad? > >>Should I do character profiles > >Eventually. You only have four recurring characters >and one phone voice, it's not really a necessity yet. Odd, my cast list has twenty five characters. (well, ok twenty one and 4/4's) > >>Should I actually go do research on what Boise is >like? > >No, it's funnier that way. You don't think the Mighty >Heroes did research on a real town, do you? Where >would Rope Man work in the midwest? At the trendy night club? > >>Should I give this up and just post up track tips? > >You should put up a recursive page of stastics for >that page. Then, post daily updates on the stastics of >people reading your statistics page on the statistics >page. > >Or just put up a page with a counter to track how many >people come to see your counter. Nah, I'd just put up a page with a Hello Kitty Vibrator on it. (Oh, wait, I did that already...) Ah, heck, the truth to the matter is that I'm doing this pretty much for my own evil reasons and not for overwhelming publicity. Strike that. I'd love overwhelming publicity too. But every now and then, the little voice in my head powers up the AudioTronic 3000 and informs me that I'm wasting my time. I vent, I wail, I post the same message three times in the dead of night, erasing and reformatting it so that it looks just right and then deal with saner, more rational folks slapping me upside the head repeatedly. We all have our crosses. JIM is an egomaniac, you're a tad paranoid and I'm manic. Actually, I'm glad that I've not been cloned yet. Mostly because I'd make a horrible 80's detective. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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| Re: Site Statistics just suck... | ~Steve-o | 20:56:23 05/10/01 Thu |
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| Re: Site Statistics just suck... | Hetta | 07:13:09 05/12/01 Sat |
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