My blog's traffic reached the limit of the basic hosting package and I had to upgrade my account. Thank you to all the readers. They are right now starting to migrate everything to a new server, you may not be able to reach the blog if you try. Special thanks to @TotallyOz.

 

Congrats. That is great news!

Congratulations on growing your audience. I confess I'm not familiar with your blog. If you don't mind answering, what do you think has caused this growth?

6 hours ago, RockHardNYC said:

Congratulations on growing your audience. I confess I'm not familiar with your blog. If you don't mind answering, what do you think has caused this growth?

I am not sure, I do not have a budget for market research and I do not have much feedback. The few people who did reach out to give me their opinions were always positive and highlighting that the information is fun and useful.

I know it is not because of my poor English.

I guess it helps that the blog has been up for almost 13 months, and now may be an interesting data base for some topics, specially escorting. It helps that both, Daddy and TotallyOz, owners of the two best established communities of our subculture, have been extremely supportive and generous. It helps that I have now an online presence of about 4/5 years, and a lot of people trust me. I think I have improved my writing if you compare the first posts to the last ones.

But I really do not know why.

 

5 hours ago, Latbear4blk said:

I am not sure, I do not have a budget for market research and I do not have much feedback. The few people who did reach out to give me their opinions were always positive and highlighting that the information is fun and useful.

Couple of thoughts...

Can your hosting company give you participation metrics (of any kind)?

And do they have any way for you to make a 'membership' page (like here) where readers 'register' in order to get email notIces of new posts by you?

17 minutes ago, AdamSmith said:

Couple of thoughts...

Can your hosting company give you participation metrics (of any kind)?

And do they have any way for you to make a 'membership' page (like here) where readers 'register' in order to get email notIces of new posts by you?

I have several sources of data. I know who my audience is, from what countries, ages, gender, income, likes, etc. etc.; I know what websites they come from, what I do not know is why they keep coming.

I do not have a membership system. You can follow me in twitter and you will have a notification.

The best way is to put a Google Analytics Code on your homepage and it will give you tons of stats.

21 minutes ago, TotallyOz said:

The best way is to put a Google Analytics Code on your homepage and it will give you tons of stats.

I do that. I have the whole freaking set of data. 

I do know that what brings most of the traffic are the reviews. This pike of traffic may be related to all the reviews I have been posting because of my trip. But now I am back to normal life, I cannot afford hiring at the same frequency I was in Buenos Aires.

I am not sure yet wether this is just a temporary pike or I have added a significant number of followers from Argentina. The latter is the most plausible explanation (bah, wishful thinking).

18 hours ago, Latbear4blk said:

I know it is not because of my poor English.

Sounds like you've done proper analysis anyway. Sometimes, you can't always know every piece of data. If English is not your first language, and you're catering to an English-speaking audience, then IMO, it is amazing that you've experienced any growth. Personally, I have very little patience for broken English, written or spoken, unless I know you are just visiting.

5 hours ago, RockHardNYC said:

Sounds like you've done proper analysis anyway. Sometimes, you can't always know every piece of data. If English is not your first language, and you're catering to an English-speaking audience, then IMO, it is amazing that you've experienced any growth. Personally, I have very little patience for broken English, written or spoken, unless I know you are just visiting.

You should skip my posts and not even get close to my blog.

1 hour ago, Latbear4blk said:

You should skip my posts

But I often enjoy what you have to say. So far so good.

1 hour ago, Latbear4blk said:

and not even get close to my blog

I'm not much of a blog person, but that doesn't mean anything. People read blogs to get specific information. If you're supplying information-in-need, you will always have readers. If you stop, or your info gets old and out-dated, then I suspect readership will go down.