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Here is a cool one. I use Google Analytics on my blog and yesterday there was a spike in traffic on my blog. I dug deeper to find out why and was surprised at the result. One of the pieces on my blog The Difficult Peace of Westphalia was featured on the Morning Update of Real Clear History and the site alone sent over 200 visitors to my blog. I am just surprised that someone thought something I wrote is good enough to be featured with material written by the likes of Pat Buchanan and Paul Bermann of The New Republic. Pretty cool I think.
Wow, that is pretty cool. Was it the anniversary of the signing? I've never heard of “Real Clear History”, but I do know its sister site, “Real Clear Politics”.
I have checked there history site out before, sometimes they have real gems on there.I have been playing with analytics lately trying to wrap my head around the whole SEO thing. I think I am starting to get a handle on it, but I don't think I will change anything on my blog except maybe the ways I tag posts to drive traffic to my site. I am averaging around 60-70 visitors a day now and I am certain that if I were to start getting a huge amount of traffic my provider would want to raise rates on me. I am content ust to see that some people find my site to be interesting.
It should state on the host's site how much traffic in GB you are provided in any month. In other words, I don't think they can arbitrarily raise rates on you. But really, even doubling your traffic per day won't register a blip on your host's radar. The most I had on a site was something like 50k visitors in a day, over 100k for the month, and I was still paying something like $10/month for hosting (and I didn't hear a peep from my host). But with that kind of traffic, I was making money off my site through advertising anyway.
I haven't really tried to monetize the site yet beyond putting up Amazon associate links for the books I have reviewed. I have thought about using Google's Adsense but am not sure if I want to go that route. I have always thought there was something slimy about a site that had ads everywhere on it. Now that I am retired and looking for ways to make money doesn't see, like such a bad idea after all. ;DI would imagine I would have to get Drudgelike traffic to exceed my allowable bandwidth, especially since I don't really out anything bandwidth intensive up. I also don't think the interest in military history is so great that I have to worry about that kind of traffic. I have one article up that is getting most of the traffic and it is a paper I wrote for my undergrad. The whole analytics thing is pretty fun to play around with though.
