An Interlude

I wish I could say that things have improved since yesterday, but they haven't. Traffic to The Sleaze took another nosedive today. Most worryingly, visitor numbers are now plummeting, not just page views. Moreover, we're back in the situation where google is serving us up nothing but 'junk' traffic - people looking for porn, mainly. These are utterly useless as they won't stay beyond landing on a page and finding that it isn't porn. They're also highly unlikely ever to revisit the site. I really wish I knew how to reverse this situation, but I've done everything humanly possible, and it just isn't working. I find it bizarre that, barely two weeks after switching the site over to a new format, I find myself seriously considering admitting defeat and pulling the plug. It would be an ignominious end to over a decade on line, but I can't ignore the fact that the revamp which was supposed to revive the site's fortunes appears to have had the opposite effect.

But, as the title says, this post is meant to be a brief interlude from the doom and gloom, where I tell you what I will be doing in the near future. As I have no stomach for anything satire-related, I'm going to focus on editing all that footage I shot during my holidays to produce some more films. Look out for these over the next few weeks. I also want to get around to looking at a subject which fascinates me - the whole concept of 'suspension of disbelief' when we watch films and TV, or read books. I've been meaning to post about it here for some time, but other things, most notably the August riots, blew me off course. I'm also planning to start over with my model railway in the next few months - it is currently in pieces while I do some repairs to the plaster in my spare room. As it isn't something I've ever discussed much here, I'd quite like to blog a little about the railway. So, regardless of the situation with The Sleaze, rest assured that I'll be continuing to write this blog for the foreseeable future, even if I do pull the plug on The Sleaze.