Feb 12, 2005 Home
Reevaluation of my site <Prior Entry Next>
The first obvious fact that I see from my site (probably true of most TG sites) is that my gallery pages receive by far, the most hits, expecially the most recent. I know myself, that the first place I normally go to when I am visitting sites is also the pictures. I can't guarantee that I will keep updating these constantly. It'll depend on my mood, time, interest, and ideas (ideas for what clothes to wear and styles).
The newest page gets hit the most then each succeeding page decreases in hits exponentially. I will take the older shootings and try to pick the good pictures out and make a sort of archive page of the older pics (since they receive the least number of clicks). I can then delete some and make room for more newer ones. I may have to move the archive to my other new server site to free up some space (I am currently near to the max for my free site).
I have started writing a issues page. I am doing this because my dairy is one of the lowest hit pages, probably because it is the least interesting, no visuals, and there are 50 million other TG diaries out there saying nearly the same thing. I still think I have interesting views and think that if I have an issues page, taking away the day-to-day blog and focusing on certain topics might attract more hits.
I will also do a mini exercise page. I am doing this not because I am super fit, but because I think I have found and learned the basics to 2 interesting forms of exercise: bellydancing and kung fu.
My emotions page I am proud of. Mainly because this is one tool that hit me surpisingly hard recently. Just the idea of emotions having meanings, and not really grasping the different type and degrees of emotions. Maybe most of you are fine with this.
I can see that I am starting to get many more direct hits. This is I think mainly from bookmarks from return visits. If this is true, it sort of makes me happy, because people are coming here again. That gives me hope that I have created something at least a little interesting.
Search engine wise, when I began, I was first on Susan's Place only. Now I have been getting many hits from TGforum's Hotlinks page and Goggle's TG section. This is good news, and will help keep the site getting more flow. Yahoo doesn't look like it will accept this page (though it does show up indirectly from Susan's Page) . Yahoo has turned into a very commercial diretory wanting money to be listed. Its funny because Yahoo owns Geocities which this site is built on. I don't know of any site that has me linked (person
I am surprised I am getting constant hits to my about me page. I guess its human nature to want to learn more about other people. It kind of makes me a little more self-conscious. Most of this info was my first index page back when I began. It was sort of the main content back then (a month ago). Today, since moving it to its own page in early Jan, it is just sort of supplemental showing a bit more about me. Now my few pictures from various shootings, the menu, and a latest news sections are the core of the index page. I think this is working and is a common format amount websites.
I am trying to come up with new ideas that I am interested or might be interested in, that others might also like. I am starting with a possible list, then will make pages for each topic. I will try posting them first in the issues page. My diary page will sort of explain what I am doing, what I have done, and what I plan on doing.
From my survey page I see that the participants are between ages 30 to 65, half single, half married. This gives me a little picture of how to write my site and what to adjust. I am glad a more mature audience is coming here. I did mention on all of my search engine submissions that this is a 50s style femininity page, and that I am already involved in a relationship, so I hope that helps to filter out the wacky people, and keeps the ones that are higher quality and actually interested in these things.
Never trust someone else to your destiny.
Love,
Kendra