Downfall of internet value
Posted by ROBOT | Posted in News | Posted on 18-05-2008-05-2008
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I am becoming slightly disheartened in regard to the fact that people would rather click on a video of a girl showing cleavage who talks about nothing rather than FREE beginner to college level guitar/music theory lessons. I have been actually getting more hits on YouTube than on here. I am going to start putting daily text blogs like this one. I thought people would rather videos, however it seems to be in opposition to what I had imagined. Plus having text is supposed to bring in more people to the site. So here we go…
I have had comedy style videos on YouTube and they seem to get more hits than the free guitar lessons. Whenever videos have a girl showing cleavage in them they get more hits. At the risk of viewers being distracted from my lessons, I am thinking about having my very attractive girlfriend shake her large breasts behind me while recording the videos from now on. This should draw people in and perhaps they will learn something while looking at a sexy girl, rather than just getting excited…or whatever people find so amusing about girls. Or maybe she could give a quick recap of what the lesson was about and an introduction or something. Another really strange fact is that many people have paid a substantial amount of money to buy my lesson book and take private lessons from me over the years, however there are only a small amount of people viewing the free lessons and commenting.
I have about 20 new lesson videos sitting here on my hear drive but I am reluctant to post them online until I start getting some more visits to this site itself. I thought about making a rule where I will not post a new video until a prior video has received a certain amount of comments. Things like that to help promote the site. I do not have the funding to advertise this site at the moment. If anyone would like to help out by linking to it, that would be much appreciated and helpful.
This site was intended to be a person blogging type deal for me, however I am always excited to help people out with their music and guitar work. So I ended up posting bunches of video lessons for guitar and music theory. Perhaps people would rather an inside look at the life of a shred guitarist. That could be fun. I just fear that the more I let people in the more they might hate me since I tend to be a strong debater on most topics.
Let me know if anyone has an idea on what could help this site grow.
I have a few ideas:
You could have other guitar players guest post on here and then that would bring over their traffic and their fans, giving you more exposure.
You also need to find other guitar blogs or guitar communities and comment and post on them so people know that you are here and that you offer free guitar lessons.
I agree with holly!
Hey Robot, I came across your site because of you tube. I wanted to thank you for the great video lessons. I have had a guitar for over 20 years but still suck as far as speed as concerned. Most of the music I enjoy I can’t play all the way through because I am just not fast enough when the solo comes. Your lesson on Legato exercises I think may really help me and I loved the scat singing idea too.
Thanks again and I will come directly through this site as opossed to you tube and try to pass the word about you.
Thank you for the help on this site. I noticed today that it is starting to finally load faster and has more visitors. I will now start making more video lessons and answering the questions on here. I was very much consumed with some soundtrack work I had this past two weeks. I am back and ready to share some more of what helped me grow as a guitarist and musician.
Thank you all again.
Hey, I would totally encourage you to put up more videos about other subjects. Considering how awesome every one of you videos are, I wouldn’t be surprised if any video you posted about anything else would be awesome. There doesn’t need to be a million people posting about a million things. There can be only one, haha.