kintespace.com over 20,000 for Three Months in a Row!
Back in 1998, shortly after the last ice age when the evergreen trees were worshipped in the thal of the neander, one of my goals was to get monthly traffic up for a “poetry web site” above 20,000. The plan was to approach advertisers with my huge numbers. So here we are over eight years later and I am pleased to announce that we have had over 20,000 hits for the last three months. Unfortunately, a few things and thangs have changed over the last eight years. I think folk are using gasoline powered vehicles now. Nevertheless, based on our research of the data, here are some goofy theories as to why we are so swass:
- The Blog Phenomenon. The Blog draws people into the Web who would not otherwise come—except to shop, get stock quotes and read sports scores (porno). I am personally pleased to see real, live, humans, living on the continent of Africa right now as we speak experiencing the wired world. I have personally been compelled to leave comments on these African Blog sites and this should in turn bring traffic—African traffic—back to kintespace.com. On the other hand there are African Blog sites that are so excellent, I just read them; my comments don’t really ‘feel’ necessary. Chippla’s Weblog—Thoughts on Issues comes to mind.
- *The MySpace.com Phenomenon. *The Ashy Larry sensation took off on MySpace.com. It actually got out of control and we had to resort to defending against bandwidth theft. Ashy Larry came to kintespace.com because of our “Shots out at Slavery” television film series back in 2005. However the kids of MySpace.com took Ashy Larry in other directions. Mostly they just wanted his picture. However, this may have drawn in MySpace.com people toward what we have to offer here at kintespace.com.
- The French Phenomenon. I just read a report yesterday about how the English language is not as dominant in the wired world as “we” would think. When we released “David Mandessi Diop: Les Vautours” last February, we were astonished by the tremendous surge toward this poem. Remember this is one poem. This is not a picture of a naked lady. We have 517 hits so far. I would like to think that we have a new progressive French-speaking audience boosting our overall numbers recently.
- The Devin Davis Phenomenon. Devin Davis, a.k.a. townee, is one of the most popular contemporary poets on kintespace.com by far. I can’t explain it apart from his talent captured in “Devin Davis: Snapshots of Space Time,” “townee: How I’d Describe Myself in 25 Words, or Less” and “townee: Linuses (at Santa Cruz).” His aggregate numbers push to 20,000. Remember, these are poems folks. These are not 2000 random web pages getting 10 hits by bots. These are poems…
- *The Sir Mix-A-Lot Phenomenon. *“Sir Mix-A-Lot” has been on kintespace.com since 1999 but this lengthy prose piece always gets several hundred hits a month. Now, behind all of these phenomena is the search engine phenomenon—namely, the Google phenomenon. And this article like many, many other presentations on kintespace.com benefit from it.