A week or so later and our site visits are down. I think folks got the point about linking to the pictures. I just want to make something clear: I love having you all here. I want you to tell all of your friends about the site and to come and visit the site. However, what I rant about is the usage costs not from people visiting the site, but from the cost of people visiting one picture on the site over and over and over. Last week when someone linked us from Fark.com in a 24 hour period we had the numbers of visitors that we normally have in a week. They weren’t visiting the stories, or strip or blog or poems, they were just going to one picture because someone put it in his post at fark and they gave the server a hit anytime they viewed his thread.
Like I said last week, I don’t mind you stealing my pictures. In fact — please do. You have my permission. Steal away. Take them and put them on your sites. If you need more, ask. I have half a million pictures of techtv related things. I filled an entire DVD with them — if you want them, take them. I really don’t care. It’s the making me host them and not getting anything back for it part that really pissed me off. So if you want to link to my pictures (and have me host them), please link back to us and encourage people to visit the site. That way I get something back. I know it doesn’t sound like a big deal, but it is.
At work. Hell week over, well hopefully (as long as I get through tomorrow without being laid off …), and I’ll be back tonight with either new strips or a new blog.
k9