Dear Blog Traffic,
I'm not exactly what's going on these days as you are by and far much, mugh higher than ever in the past, and more consistently higher even in the years I was blogging 1100+ posts.
Sure, blogging has gotten me to meet different folks and communities in the AANHPI space, but even as I grew, I was still niche. I am still niche. Having traffic of 5,000 views a month is huge when you start out. Getting 100 views a month when you start out, from engaged readers, that in itself is amazing (and you can say what you want but you do it)--especially when you are a blogger like I am.
During my high points for some months I got 70,000 views (maybe some stats had me higher but I think they were counting some duplicates, etc.). That was amazing then, and if I was starting a new blog now, I'd be ecstatic at that. I'd be ecstatic at 25-50K a month. It's not 300/400K a month, or millions--but for a lone blogger, who does it for nothing else than for community and voice--just like others, and you know who you are, and what you do--and for someone that sometimes uses the lowest common denominator--
That's not bad.
I've started things where no one read. Where no one came. Where no none was interested. Where people thought it was a joke.
So it's been amazing to me because I still believe that if just one person gets a new message, looks to something more APIA related, or can see a little bit of themselves reflected, to know they aren't alone--that's why I do what I do.
So to see you now be growing on steady averages--sometimes in that 4-5x range now from my highest traffic--that's pretty crazy and to be honest, I'm maybe a little worried.
More traffic isn't always a good thing. I'm not saying it's bad, but I'm just saying I'd rather stay small and life is all good than getting more traffic and maybe things start turning out not so good.
You dig me?
I'm not saying stop per se--but I don't advertise, I don't try to roll this into something else. I'm not a starf*cker.
So just maybe, you know, if you could, don't bring along any of the crazies, you know what I mean?
Okay.
See you more, maybe, or maybe not,
Adam
