There’s a host of “ten years on the web” birthdays going on. Amazon. MP3. Fishing Guide to the Stars weekly.
In the past decade, the scopes have grown from roughly 50 to 100 words per sign – per week, to a sprawling morass of almost 3K per week. Times 52 weeks? With clarity, I can peg when this happened. It was the summer of 1998, and yet-another NDE for me.
So that’s the history, in a nutshell. I’ve done daily, weekly, monthly and yearly scopes. but I’ve found I like, even enjoy, writing the weekly. So that’s all I do. Besides, that’s a lot of work in a year, from concept through all stages of production, right on out to the final product on the site.
The site and my related work has spawned three-four books, with a “2005” version of the columns in book form planned for next December. Amazon now carries the Romance Guide, and I’m seeing about getting other items listed with them, as well.
The terms I hear frequently is all about “search engine placement.” That’s the ticket to stardom, right? Big bucks, big name placement? What’s different about what I do, something like 80% of the site’s traffic comes from bookmarks, and less than 2% come from any one search engine or other link.
