Blog traffic observations

I know I've posted more non-gaming blog updates lately, but I did say when I started Talk Games Online that this blog is by itself an experiment. So don't panic.

The experiment is showing more and more results to me and I managed to gather valuable data for what's to come (I can't say more about it at this time).

Speaking of which, the blog finally has enough traffic for trends to be somewhat viewable now. So I noticed an interesting fact: the weekly traffic peak is on Thursdays. And it's so obvious that it saddened me each Friday during the last few weeks when I saw the traffic dropping a bit on Fridays.

But then I set myself the right mind frame and realized that the traffic wasn't dropping on Fridays, but was simply increasing slowly until Thursdays, peaking that day, then going back to normal.

It's quite interesting to notice that traffic is lower in the weekends (after the aforementioned peak), but I guess people need more distractions during the week, maybe to get some fun or simply some reading after a hard day's work (at their job or school).

Also, sorry for not posting the Gaming pic of the Week this Tuesday. I didn't find anything worth posting, so I preferred not to, rather than posting something bad.

That being said, stay tuned for more stuff cool. Have a fantastic weekend!

Blog update - no poll for October & more news

I made some changes under the hood of the blog in the past few days and more are to come. I also submitted the blog to various Web directories. I really hope that these changes will be reflected in the visitors rate for the following weeks.

I also believe that the poll might cause some problems between the blog and Google's crawler (the thing that jumps from link to link to search the websites), so at least for October there will be no poll.

I am going to spend some time during the following days to make more similar updates and, hopefully soon, I will unleash a big surprise upon you guys.

Thanks for your understanding!

No gaming quote this week

Hey guys, just a quick update. We're not posting any Gaming quote of the Week today. I know you already got used to us doing it, but this time we'll skip it.

I don't have any time to find a quality quote to post, therefore I'd rather just skip it altogether. But don't worry, this section will still exist.

Thanks for your understanding!

We now have a Facebook page!

Good news, everybody - starting today, we're on Facebook! Feel free to visit us for exclusive content, updates on the blog's best posts and more cool stuff.

Haven't I already told you that I like to keep everything fresh and have new stuff at all times? Well this is it - first our poll (speaking of which, we'll have exclusive polls on Facebook as well), then the Gaming pic of the Week and Gaming quote of the Week campaigns and now Facebook.

And I'm not planning on stopping here. But until something even newer and cooler comes up, go ahead and Like us on this new, fresh and awesome Facebook page.

Cheers!