As of today, normal service for the blog will be resuming. There’s just been a lot of things happening here in Real Life (TM) that have taken my attention away from posting deals and links. Things have been a little crazy around the Bagder household for the past few weeks, but things have settled and we’re all trucking along the way we’re supposed to.
So, what is it that’s getting in the way of me updating this blog. Partly it’s my inability to sleep, but as I’ve just completed a second sleep study, that will soon be also under control. I’ve also decided to go back and finally get my Bachelor’s degree. The irony is that making this decision has allowed me to become a lot more focused. I’ve had to make a number of decisions (along with Mrs Teh Bagder, who graduates next quarter) about my own personal projects. One is that I plan to continue maintaining this blog, and will make sure that I spend at least 30-60 minutes a day updating it and probably in a block of time in the morning (making a liar out of me for one of my previous posts). These updates will be between 9-10 a.m. each morning, with intermittent updates throughout the day as I see fit. Most of my classes are distance learning and I’ll be working around family and other commitments, but having a set time to update the blog will stop me from going crazy and allow me to keep it maintained. Plus, I also need to sleep at some point during the day and working weekend nightshift messes with my clock. Once again, that should be fixed soon enough.
I’m also trying to find the best way for me to update the blog and still make it interesting without it just being a bunch of links to other sites. That will explain some of the format changes to entries lately, particularly the Amazon deals. The problem with these entries is they take up more time to put together instead of putting all the daily deals together in a single entry. This cuts into my time for writing entries and stops me from being able to write up lengthier posts that are focused on particular topics.
I’ve also been lax putting together audio deals for Short Attention Gamer, and I plan to rectify that as soon as I get this blog up and running properly again. It doesn’t take that long to actually record the deals, but it does take time to find them and select decent deals. I’d love to sit and post to the blog all day long and find deals but it’s not financially beneficial for me to do so, nor is it the best use of my time, so it gets a lower priority to other things in my life. That’s the catch-22 right there: less time to write means less interest for people to visit and you can’t grow a site without eyeballs. The truth is that there are maybe 30-40 regular visitors to the site and that kind of traffic only really allows me to give a little bit of time to the site. If I was getting 1000 visitors a month and making about $150 on affiliate earnings then I’d be adding a lot more content to the site as it would be paying its way and be giving me a reason to really post all the time.
That’s where you guys, the readers of the blog can help out. If you drum up traffic for the site, I’ll start spending more time looking for deals and posting them. I’m rethinking the advertising on the site so that I can earn a little more money doing it. Of course, Content is King and I need to know what kind of content readers of the site want to see, so you need to give me some feedback here so that I can deliver what you want. Drop a comment and let me know what you think. If you don’t want to drop a comment publicly, send an e-mail to himself at tehbagder dot com instead.
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