Layered Thoughts

I’m not particularly concerned with the amount of people that read this site; I’m not trying to make any money off of this site and I’m not even really looking to build up any sort of reputation from it. It’s just a creative outlet.

That being said, I, like all people, have an ego. And seeing my traffic numbers increase is always a pleasant surprise. Since starting my “Make Wordpress Do What You Want” series, I have seen my traffic increase to about 10-25 visitors per day on average. Nearly all of that traffic comes from organic search. Here’s what my traffic looks like for about the last two weeks:

This is by no means a lot of traffic. But it is encouraging for two reasons: 1) I plan on adding at least another dozen Wordpress tricks to the site, which should boost the traffic another 20-30 visitors a day and 2) I have plans to experiment with ad revenue generating micro niche sites for some nice recurring income.

That second item is potentially a great thing. I’m hoping to have half of my income come from micro niche sites by the new year (obviously if I can get more than that’s even better). I’ve learned the right tools I need to find the niches, I have a list of really powerful link building resources to use, and I have all of the technical know how to make it happen.

We’ll see how it goes.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Bertrand Russell

I never really thought that running spam plugins was necessary on a site that doesn’t get too much traffic (maybe one day…). But after I switched to this new theme, I decided to add the Akismet widget to the sidebar to show how many spam comments have been blocked by it.

And, crazy enough as it is, it has blocked over 5000 spam messages on this little blog. That’s pretty incredible considering the traffic this blog usually receives. Goes to show how many automated tools out there are beating up sites with automatic comment posting…

Like I mentioned earlier in the week, I have been throwing around different theme options for this blog. I settled on one that was running stock until earlier, when I slapped in a nice grungy metal background with cool little header.

I’ll probably leave the theme like this for a while until I see what direction this here blog is heading…

I’m gonna basically be breaking this site today playing with different free themes from the Wordpress.org site…Figured it was time for a refresh, so I’m planning on finding a nice layout and then customizing it to my liking. Hopefully I’ll have it sorted out by tonight.