It was just brought to my attention that the Friday Traffic Report was not in private mode for the last 2 years. One of my friends just told me she had been reading everything I’ve been posting every day.
She had even told some others about FTR and they’ve been reading it as well.
The shock set in when I realized that, what I thought I had been writing all this time as a personal diary, was actually being consumed by upwards of 24,000 readers per day and passed around the web via RSS and links in an effort to show even more people my private marketing tips!
I blog for me…
I guess I should tell you all, my ramblings here were never meant for public consumption. I was merely keeping a record of what I do and see online to market better. That it has been shared all over the web and linked to from blogs and social sites from all over the world comes as quite a shock.
I guess this explains why people keep sending me checks and signing up for my membership sites. I thought they were all from people landing on those sites directly, but apparently many of my members and clients have been coming from FTR.
This is not for you…
Please, if you have any heart at all, don’t link to or talk about FTR anymore. I appreciate that you thought traffic and notoriety was something that I wanted – that I wanted to become a major authority blog – but I assure you, I thought this blog was hidden and I hope it will be forgotten by the web soon.
I don’t blog for the money or fame. While now it may appear as though that is the only reason I’ve kept this journal, I assure you it was not. I blog for my own sense of peace and as a record of where I’ve been.
My webmaster told me no one could see FTR but me. He has been fired as of this morning.
If you have been reading FTR regularly, I would appreciate it if you tried to forget anything you’ve learned here and please don’t send me any more traffic! I’ll never sell a single book if this information gets out to more people!
