Streetcar Sundays – 47

Due to the stats that I threw together yesterday I thought that today I would throw a double post together. Part one of course will be the MEN ARE LIKE STREETCARS spanking pic,  but in the second part I want to impart some wisdom to my fellow bloggers which I hope in turn increases the experience for readers.

The spanking portion this week features a rather dramatic response to getting spanked with a newspaper. Or perhaps he has just finished spanking her? The pic is from 1952.

This will be added to my original MEN ARE LIKE STREETCARS spanking folder.

FK KS 52

Now for you bloggers out there,  I want to show you a graph where you can see how creating specific folders for your work can increase your reader count dramatically. Now if you are already getting a million readers a week then this won’t matter,  but for most of us bloggers we get between 600-1100 viewers a day so giving people an idea of where your work is can only help,  right?

Let’s say that I go to a blog that features spanking stories. Now I will get the latest ones because they are right there on the front page,  but what if I am looking for something specific? I have two choices,  I can search and search or I can give up and look elsewhere. Now I’m pretty sure if you are a blogger you won’t people to stay to see your offerings.

So I will take myself as an example as a reader. If I go to a blog and want to read a story,  if I can’t find what I want I give up pretty quickly,  but,  if the blog had separate pages where all of their stories are listed,  I’m going to go to that page,  see what is on offer and then starting clicking links. Here are my two story pages:

SPANKING STORIES – FICTION

SPANKING STORIES – REAL LIFE 

Now does it work? You can bet your butt that it does. Originally I started creating folders for my work quite simply because people were taking my collection and not saying where it came from. It got to a point where I felt my readers were being poached and viewing my offerings elsewhere. So I started making pages on this site to showcase all of the various areas that I was working on. It didn’t take long at all for people to start clicking the links I provided to my collections. In fact in this post alone some people are going to come here,  click on the men are like streetcars link and say to themselves  “Ah,  so this is where all of those pics come from”. Same goes for the two story links above,  readers will click on them and then they will start reading my stories.

Here is the graph that I spoke of where you will see that prior to setting up folders for my work,  certain categories hardly even registered in the monthly hits department. Not only that,  if you understand stats,  you will also see that 33% of story readers either come to this site directly to the story pages or through a search term. I’m not even someone who writes a lot of stories,  but as you can see my stories get read about 6,000 times a month. That’s 200 times a day a story is read,  every day,  and I rarely write stories. These aren’t fantasy numbers either,  the graph is below showing you exactly how many people read them. November 2011 is when I started the story folders,  the blip in mid 2011 is when I had a story linked and the link carried for a few months.

stories

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