How do you feel about your page views?
By legbamel
@legbamel (179)
United States
July 15, 2007 6:16am CST
I've gotten page view greedy! It used to be that even 10 people reading an article made me happy for days. Knowing that there were total strangers around who were willing to let me have my say. Then the number got a little bigger. I'm not thrilled unless there were 25 or even 50, depending on the articles. And with this last page view update, I'm afraid I was disappointed in one that didn't quite reach 100. [sigh]
Over all, though, I look at my numbers from AC and Helium and I couldn't be happier when I consider how many people have read what I've written. My best guess is that my page views are about 11,000 between the two. That's a whole lot of reading.
Do you let your numbers get you down, or are you happy with them? Do you promote, and if so, how? I have a blog and four Squidoo lenses plus I've joined a few blog listing sites (all under the same user name as the one I use here).
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6 responses
@scarywhitegirl (2766)
• United States
15 Jul 07
I am very pleased with my page views on AC. The part that tends to make me happiest is that some of the articles that didn't pay very well initially, because they were in the Entertainment category, have gotten me a ton of page views. So I'm pleased that we are getting paid just a little bit for those, as it really makes those articles worthwhile to me. :)
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@AnythngArt (3302)
• United States
16 Jul 07
I think entertainment is really what people read online. My best read article on Associated Content was a fluff piece. I like to write about healthy eating, and no one wants to read that, unfortunately.
@babostwick (2036)
• United States
15 Jul 07
I use anything and everything I can think of to promote it. I have promoted it through myspace actually. I post a link letting people know whenever I got something new published. I'm all right with it, just going to keep promoting more so just to get a higher number. I try not to worry about it, I just get it done and then do the promoting and see what happens. I just hope for the best on that.
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@langara123 (887)
• India
17 Jul 07
How they pay you . I wrote a article 3 days back and yesterday i got a mail that they have published my aricle. No message about the payment.how they pay.
@legbamel (179)
• United States
18 Jul 07
They pay through PayPal but only if you live in the US. They pay Monday, Wednesday, and Friday every week unless there is a US bank holiday. Page view bonus payments are supposed to be made on the second Wednesday of each monthy, if you've accumulated more than $15.
@noah2413 (404)
• United States
24 Jul 07
The most i have gotten in oage views for one article is a little over 400 views, and that was one about French Deserts. You can check it out here:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/166121/french_desert_details_on_the_delicious.html
I have little over 3000 views total, but hpe they will recount soon, because i have some content i think will get a lot of views.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/theinformer
@morgandrake (2136)
• United States
19 Jul 07
I was so disappointed over this last pageview update. Of course, it is because I am writing for a niche market, and my promtion tactics are going to take awhile to actually work. It reminded me of a bad membership drive at the lodge (my lodge has yet to have a successful membership drive). :(
@legbamel (179)
• United States
24 Jul 07
I think it does take a long time to build readers on an evergreen article. It's the ones that take off and garner links from all over that make me feel like I'm missing something. Of course, if that were so common it wouldn't be such a big deal when it happened, right? LOL
@JoyceP2007 (230)
• United States
16 Jul 07
I'm a page view hog. I want so badly to get to a clout 9. LOL
I use www.piecelibrary.com to promote my articles with linkbacks. I publish a piece that was non-exclusive for Piece Library and then link back to my other pages on Associated Content.
