#oneaday Day 537: Growth

Took a quick look at the stats earlier today, and rather pleasingly it looks like if things continue at the current rate, MoeGamer will have had continual growth ever since its launch in 2014.

To put it another way, we're less than halfway through the year and 2020 has already exceeded half of last year's numbers. This is awesome, and I'm really happy that people are continuing to stop by to see what I'm up to and what I'm writing about.

Of course, there are reliable traffic magnets in there — my articles on the pornographic games Honey Select Unlimited and Hilzartov Fairy have been drawing people in daily ever since I posted them, probably largely because I'm one of the few sites out there to have actually covered them — but there are people stopping by every day for one reason or another. And that's really nice to see.

I often mention that I don't do this for the numbers or anything like that and, since MoeGamer isn't ad-supported in any way, the actual numbers don't really matter beyond raising awareness of what I'm actually doing. But, as a writer, it's definitely satisfying to see more and more people coming by year-on-year to read my thoughts on various games — and it makes me feel like I'm doing something right.

I've never made a particular effort to search engine-optimise MoeGamer because I strongly believe that does horrible things to the readability of writing — and besides, the way Google ranks things nowadays isn't that simple anyway. I promote my stuff on Twitter and Facebook, but I don't do any huge marketing pushes or anything. I believe this is what people in the business call "organic" somethingorother. And, honestly, it's the type of people I'd rather have hanging around — people who came by because they were interested or intrigued by something, and found some articles, videos and/or podcasts to lose themselves in for a while.

I've never been about clickbait — even though the few occasions I've written response pieces to hot-button issues of the hour have brought in goodly amounts of people — and I absolutely 100% refuse to participate in the odious practice of hatebaiting. While it may bring people to your door in droves, they're all angry. And that's not fun at all.

I'd much rather have a few cool people stopping by to say hi, talk about some unusual games and have some fun. And that's what I have right now! And it's good.