From a previous post I discussed the power of StumbleUpon to bring in new visitors but also a quick decline after one day. On September 23th we saw 486 unique visitors to our site and then on September 24th we saw 1296 unique visitors. We received all of these visitors simply by filling out a [...]

Yesterday we saw about 500 users from Stumbleupon view our website which is great news. This tells me that there is a market out there for people that want to see websites about writing. We have also seen a few positive SU reviews about the site which are here.
However I have to agree with the sentiment [...]

Web designers and new website owners tend to spend gobs of time scrutinizing the homepage of a new site. In my opinion the homepage (at least for a site like ours) is not that important. These are the reasons why:
1. The homepage is rarely the entry point for visitors to a website. Web sites are [...]

This is the first post of the votepages.com blog. My brother Dan and I are keeping this blog to keep a running history of our attempt to start this creative writing website. We would like to document the entire process from a web development standpoint (mainly Dan’s arena) and business development (my arena). More entries [...]