I'm throwing out a few questions to the writers:
If you have a blog and a website, which do you update more often? If you track your stats, which receives more traffic?
I have a blog and a myspace account, but I don't have my own website. I have enough trouble updating my blog (I will get better at that). I'm wondering if I even need a website. If you're a professional writer, do you need a website? I know that seems like a rhetorical question, but I'd like to know what you think.
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I have a website, a blog, and a MySpace. I update the blog & MySpace more frequently, but the site still gets the most hits.
What I lack is a means to link sales to any of them, 'cause they each have book links on them.
Hmm. Let's see. In terms of unique visitors:
My blogs--LJ get 50-100 hits a day although I update it no more than weekly, myspace gets about 1 hit week. I guess I suck at myspace use because some people do well with it.
My total fixed website gets 450-650 hits a day but that includes EREC and PODPeople, my personal front page gets only 50-100 of those.
This blog gets 40-60 a day so far.
p.s. You don't necessarily need a website but it probably helps as a fixed site to post your backlist and some teasers and samples.
thanks for the responses. :)
I would at the very least buy the website domain name if it's available, even if you don't want to use it yet. It stops other people buying it.
I don't get a huge amount of traffic through my website, but people do wander through reading the excerpts and short stories. I'm fairly sure that in some cases that turns into sales -- it's the ebook equivalent of being able to read a few sample pages in the shop before buying.
Blog, website (that has a blog front but I don't use it in that manner), myspace (but I don't do anything there).
The most hits I have are to my blog usually 40-70 hits a day, though its increasing, my website a little less than that, but I publicize the blog more, and thats what I update every day or two. 40-60 hits on the main site isn't too bad considering its high in new browsers, the hits to the blog are a lot of return visitors.
I find webrings do very little, a few hits a month at most, blogtopsites is excellent for referral, and links with other authors/authorsites (like EREC) garner 1-2 hits a day sometimes a few more.
jules, yep, i'm planning to do that today or tomorrow.
anne, thanks for the numbers.
I know my numbers aren't great compared to some, but I'm finally seeing some results from all my listing with blog sites, advertising etc.
I have all of the above (lol) and I think so far my blog and myspace site have way more traffic than the website. Of course, those pages are frequently updated too, whereas the website might be updated once a month. Majority of the new hits come from blogtopsites and the like.
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