Ignoring What Works
If page views dictated my content, I would have trashed this video journal around when I started complaining about this video journal. These entries—by far—attract the fewest page clicks out of all the articles on my website. Considering my weekly views still putter in the single-digits, many of my posts never see an audience, and the large majority of my video journal entries collect dust on their hyperlinks.
My two short stories have lured the most visitors by a significant margin, followed by my videos edited by Editor One, followed by my reviews as a whole. I have NoSleep to thank for the popularity of my stories and YouTube for the random views on my videos. Most people who visit my website from either source tend to click on a few pages before shoving off. Without the glory of WordPress Reader, this is how I generate traffic.
Logic would advise me to drop most of my other content and focus exclusively on edited videos and horror short stories. Diving deeper into the video realm certainly intrigues me because YouTube stardom is the new American dream (apart from affordable and adequate housing). It was also my dream to focus exclusively on short stories with solomonrambling.com before I determined Nintendo Switch topics and stories would better guarantee a consistent audience. As the saying goes, hindsight is 20/20, so I can clearly see I was an idiot.
Despite my hindsight, I have come to enjoy the varied nature of my website. I like writing all the work you can find here, even my poorly-named and time-consuming blogitorials. Each article requires me to approach my writing differently, which provides both variety and a challenge. Perhaps I would be further along in terms of viewers if I only made videos and short stories, but this is an “if” I don’t regret. My website is me, and if I ever do have a consistent fan base, they’ll have quite a selection to digest.
Do you have any suggestions? Of course you don’t. You don’t exist. Didn’t you read this entry? Of course you didn’t. No one does, you nobody you. However, if you happen to be someone from a future in which I am famous, leave a comment for the Solomon of 9/12/2018.