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This is what a day on the frontpage of Digg can do to your site traffic.

Traffic ‘Round Here (2008)

February 12, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

As you can see from the above chart, the redesigned tannerhelland.com was visited by some 20,000 people in its first five months. One of my goals for 2009 is to double each of these stats. I’d like to see closer to 30,000 unique visitors in 2009, and it’d be great if the number of visits per visitor could get bumped closer to 2.0. Part of the way I plan to accomplish this is with a renewed emphasis on regular posting (which I hope you’ve enjoyed!) and a host of SEO changes, along with the continual addition of content from my old programming and music sites. It’s all a work in progress, but hey – at least it’s progressing! :)

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Think video games make kids antisocial? Think again.

September 16, 2008 ⋅ 4 comments

As an adult male who enjoys the occasional video game, I find myself constantly having to justify this choice of entertainment to other adults – you know, the ones that claim video games are “evil,” “a waste of time,” “anti-social,” “satanic,” etc.  These arguments usually consist of the other adults name-calling gamers while I explain [...]