At the beginning of November I decided to make a concerted effort to make a number of improvements on Uncommon History and venture down some new roads. The journey was very educational and actually quite entertaining, not to mention rewarding.
By a mere numbers point of view alone, my various attempts at reaching a wider audience was a smashing success. Here are the year to date numbers for my site:
[table "26" not found /]Except for a statistical anomaly in March (due to a rather popular entry on Easter), my statistics across the board in November rivaled that of any other given month.
I do continue to have much work to do, but all of it is in the name of creating a better blog and resources for my readers.
You will no doubt have noticed a rather large increase in the advertising on Uncommon History. I do apologize if it gets in the way of the incredible histories and other fascinating subjects here on Uncommon History, but I must admit that the advertising is causing a two-fold benefit.
First, it is attracting new readers to Uncommon History. Second, it is helping to produce a revenue stream that will be used to pay for this site as well as making even further improvements.
I do pledge to all my wonderful readers that I am working on finding ways to make this advertising less intrusive on an aesthetic basis, but I do ask that if you can help support Uncommon History in any way, I would be most grateful and humble.
In the future I will be sharing what I have learned so far about different traffic and revenue generating ideas. I will be writing more posts on tips and tricks that I have learned about that either do or do not seem to drive more traffic to your site.
