CoTV Version 3 Debuts with Thoughts on the Future

Kehaar, of Silflay Hraka, brings us Carnival of the Vanities #210, and with it some thoughts about the future direction, and viabilty of the Granddaddy of all Carnivals.

I especially like his thoughts on Traffic.

Whereas I value a good traffic spike as much as the next blogger, I realize that the value of those spikes is fleeting. Most of those readers will never visit your blog again. They aren't really fans of great writing as they are followers of fashion, following whatever link Instapundit might decide to throw up next. To me, those readers hold less value than the one that comes back every week or every day or even every hour. Those readers, the ones that are fans of your writing, will find you if you are patient and keep writing every day. If your vanity is well-founded and your writing actually does deserve the recognition you think it does, readers will come. It may not happen overnight and it may not be as rewarding as heavy volume, but the value is still there.

Exactly.

If you look at my Sitemeter Stats for both my blogs you will probably wonder why I continue to do this.

My overall numbers reflect a carry over from a stat tracker I once had that tracks more than Sitemeter does, and the lead my older blog has over the other, more popular blog, on Cycling, reflects the results of 2 months of traffic to 1 long ago post on the death of Nick Berg, that included a link to the video.

My daily numbers reflect what to the Traffic obsessed would be a horror. ;-D

For most Bloggers our Blogs are a way to share our life, thoughts, and interests, with the wider world we all live in.

How many people read our stuff, find our links useful, e-mail us, leave comments, or trackbacks because they are doing us the honor of spreading the word about something we have written, on a regular, or semi-regular basis, is not as important as the fact that there are people doing so at all.

Comments

[Kehaar]

Thanks for the trackback and thanks for your support for CoTV. I've got some ideas that I hope will work out and I hope to see CoTV blossom again. Keep up the good work!

BTW, your trackback was initially caught in my junk filter. It is now published.

[jaspar]

Don't worry about traffic (except when you're
bicycling). The greatest writing in the world was never widely distributed. You may quote me on that.

;)