Do you want to maximize the hits you get from a link on my website to your own website? Please read my philosophy on doing this. It is noted here, and also on Q.4 of the FAQ webpage on my site. Please, please, please read below….I am certain it is the best way to maximize your hits.

I was thinking about it today and, for some reason, I remembered something my mum told me once upon a time (hi mum!). I think we were talking about a job I was going for when I was a teenager…..I think I might have been applying for 2 separate jobs at the same time. Basically she said “Don’t tell them that you are going for another job….just tell them what you have to…..make sure you get both jobs, or at least one…..and then you have the choice to decide what you want to do”.

So, what am I talking about, and how is this relevant? Well basically, if you blatantly refer to yourself in your entry, people will already know what is behind your link and you will probably lose a lot of potential hits.

I think if you want a lot of people to hit your link it is probably best to not give away too much about your site in what you write…......it is not needed as everything is already on your website, and that is where you really want people to go. For example, if you were to say something like “the best online gamine site was just around the corner”, or …..“I’d heard that smoking patches were good, but I couldn’t believe how good x-brand were”…or anything that is blatant reference to yourself…. people will already know what is behind the link and most people will choose not to hit or follow your link.

I really think the best idea is to try to get people interested in what has been written. I would personally do this by just trying to contribute to making the story more interesting: either writing very well (something that actually fits really well into the story), being amusing, being creative, being funny…...basically, if you write something that is clever and interesting, that is what will make people want to follow your link to see where it came from!

Just another non-related point…..if it doesn’t look like the stories have been updated on your computer, you should try hitting the “refresh/reload” button. Sometimes this is needed to over-ride the memory/cache on certain computers.

Oh yeah...and yesterday was officially my busiest day yet....over 5,500 hits!

¶ 11:24 PM