Hunting traffic
Back in 1996 I started a webpage, which later grew into something bigger. I remember the dawning ages of that page, toxboe.net, where I was desperately trying to get traffic sending my link out to hundreds of irrelevant pages. In the recent years I thought back on this action as being quite ridiculous, as these few extra hits didn’t do much – especially as the extra hits didn’t come from visitors in my target group.
When I later started working as a web developer, I never thought once about where my clients got their hits from. The only thought that crossed my mind was how pathetic a visitor count of 200 a day were, compared to what I had going at toxboe.net.
Now I’m back in the new-webpage saddle again. Suddenly I start to realize how lucky I am by having as many hits as I am with toxboe.net – about 3000 unique visitors a day. And now again, it’s hard to resist spamming other sites with the URL of my new page. “Just to get it on google” has been the main argument to fulfill the temptation. As I believe (and hope) I am more mature than I was when I was in 1996, I will resist the temptation – but boy is it tempting to start spamming.
Hmm… well I guess I better start telling somebody about this blog, although it alone is a nice tool just to get my initial thoughts for my master’s degree thesis down.