it's going to be very close, but i think my august totals should just match my july totals.

but my july totals were a significant increase in hits over my june ones (judging by the way the curve was swinging, it was a two or three or even four month jump), so i'm ok with a minimal growth rate, or even a very small negative one.

i don't think my september totals will greatly exceed my july or august ones, either. i'm going to be waiting until the end of october or even november before i see any real increases.

but i think i caught the curve and will not concern myself with it for another few weeks.

i have enough data at this point to understand what kind of rates i'm getting in drawing people to bandcamp. this page is really just a blog, it's sort of inconsequential if people get here....

from approximately 52,000 comment views, i've generated around 12,000 video views - which is a little under 25%. a bit more than 10% of that gets to bandcamp. so i'm looking at about 3% of the traffic getting to where i want it - which is not bad, really.

i don't have metrics, but i think i've averaged around 10,000 comment views over each of the last two months. i need to get that up to around 15,000 and then 20,000 - but that's easier said than done. some of the comments are on videos that get a steady stream of visitors, so once they migrate to the top of the comment section they're fixed. others are on videos that are trending, and they get lost in a torrent of other comments and quickly forgotten.

what i've learned is that trolling the trending videos can get a quick boost in posts, but that this fades within a day or two due to high turnover in the comments section. the more worthwhile approach is to find older videos that continue to generate steady traffic and try and climb the comment section...