Over the years I have had many different approaches to bringing in visitors to my sites, have it be spamming other sites(I don’t do this anymore thankfully), using adult content of some sort, or just having a good read here and there.  I am once again in the process of looking over the site and seeing how to attract traffic… But this time some more relevant traffic.  I was speaking with Ted and he has gone from zero visits a day when I helped him get his site setup to having about 70k a month unique (Correct me if I am wrong Ted).  Anyways I hope in the months to come to have some valid visitors coming this way reading some hopefully well written articles (I might need help on this if you know anything about my writing skills).  Well anyways this post was once again a little ramble off the top of my head and nothing of real importance, but if you have any suggestions about driving traffic I would be interested in hearing them.

I have been trying to figure out why there is such a lack of updates on blogs that I follow, including mine.  I am kind of noticing a trend that the people that used to blog a lot seem to have a pretty up2date twitter account.  I know I am guilty of not blogging due to my frequent yet unimportant updates on twitter.  Is anyone noticing this as well?  Do you think that twitter, pownce and systems like those might be somewhat of a downfall to full fledged blogs?  I have been dabbling with the idea of actually moving my blog into a sub folder and then just putting up a front page that gets the RSS feeds from my twitter, last.fm, flickr etc and displays those on the front of my site and then just offering a link to my blog.

Wow I have a lot of plugins that are out of date… I should really fix that.

My Technorati ranking is an astonishing 14,926… I am actually very surprised by that good of a rank, especially considering that Alexa ranks me at 1,697,852.  I swore that they used to somewhat go hand in hand with rankings, but clearly that is no longer the case these days.  Hopefully in due time my Alexa ranking will even our with the other.

Besides all the ranking who ha, I thought I would present this nice little gem that came into the help desk this evening.  I removed some of the less important aspects of the message as not to bore the 3 people that read my site.

… and I just wanted to commend you and your colleagues for the promptness and friendliness of your service. This time I had Shelby D reply to my latest query in the usual very speedy and comprehensive fashion, so I thought I should drop Shelby a little ‘attaboy‘ (or ‘attagirl‘).

Now don’t get me wrong I love the compliment, but this is another prime example of why I dislike email support. Maybe I should change my signature to say “Mr. Shelby” that might help sort out  the confusion surrounding my name … then again knowing how most people don’t fully read responses to emails (myself included) it probably would not be all that effective.

In my attempts to fix my theme, it seems that I have destroyed it.  As you can see the font sizes are way off, and really I am unsure why… seeing that I didn’t change any of the CSS on the page.  Guess this is more motivation to get the new theme out, though I am really not sure its ready for production yet since I just started creating it about 3 days ago, and really only spent about 15 minutes working on it.

It would be much better if I was not having to work all days surrounding and including it, but what can you do. I had a chance to watch Planet Terror today and I really liked it, I thought it was somewhat better that Death Proof but overall they were both good.  While watching Planet Terror I was very surprised to see that Stacey Ferguson was actually attractive in the movie. 
Usually I don’t think that she looks all that good, but as you can see by this screen grab she actually looks alright. I plan on getting in some more movie watching this weekend while working on some side projects that I have lined up.  It was also brought to my attention that I cant have a WoW day anymore since Entensity.net already does so and I might add they do it much better than I will ever be able to do. So back to the drawing board for a Wednesday posting theme.