Celebrating My 26,000th Read!!!

So here I am 2 years and 2 months after the publication of my first Vocal Media story. The first story is called "25 Greatest Songs of Sade." As of July 30, 2023 it has received 364 reads. It is within my 20 most popular stories, etc.

This week I am celebrating the my 26,000th read... That's right twenty six thousand. I am proud of this achievement. I have captured this total with 162 stories. The actual total is 26,079 ( as of July 30, 2023). Which means my average reads per story is 161 reads.

You can see from the above stats page I am at +33%. Obviously that means I am trending better than I was at this time last year!!! Yippee!!! 😎

Also you can see that my most popular article is "Black Female Vocalists of the 1970s". That one has received 5,791 reads so far. By tonight's (July 31, 2023) stats update it should have 5,800 reads. I average about 8 reads per day everyday on this one which comes out roughly to 240 reads per month and 2,900 reads per year. Of course I have this story search engine optimized to the max so it does show up on Google's search engines. It is usually the top result when somebody searches for Black Female Singers of the 70s or any variation thereof.

As you can see in the stats for "Black Musicians of the 1970s, I have only received eight stars. You would think that an article with near 5,800 reads would have quite a few more stars. But the reality is the vast majority of reads this article receives are from the search engines. Meaning this story is bringing a good amount of new readers to Vocal Media. I can't say how many of those readers have signed up with Vocal. I really need to take advantage of my Vocal Ambassadors account. I'm most likely missing out on a regular flow of revenue.

Another milestone I am celebrating is the recent 3,000th read of my story "20 Most Influential Musicians of All-Time. I put a lot of work into this one and the work was rewarded with a Top Story - Happy Day for Me!!! This is another one of mine that is search engine optimized to the max. I am getting about the same amount of reads per day on this one as I am on the Black Female Vocalists story.

Although, not yet a major milestone my article "A Brief History of "Cheesecake" by Louis Armstrong" will soon reach 500 reads. But the reason I am bringing this one up is because this is my most recent article/story to start trending in the search engines. Initially this story received about 180 reads and was getting about three reads per week for a little while. Around the beginning of May 2023 I noticed some movement on this one. I thought it was just a fluke and that it would soon end. But here were are 2 months later and the story is still getting about 6 reads per day everyday. That is about 40 reads per week and 180 reads per month. I did not intentionally search engine optimize this one - but it has ended up being SEO.

In total between the three articles featured I receive 22 reads per day everyday from them. This totals about 154 reads per week and 667 reads per month. Just from three stories I get 667 reads per month and those are stories that are already written. These are reads that come to me for work I did in the past. It's kind of like receiving royalties.

But there's more. My stories "Ten Essential Steely Dan Deep Cuts" and "Are You a Metrosexual" are trending about 3 reads per week every week. I feel the Steely Dan article will soon be trending 2 or 3 reads per day. Plus I have about a dozen stories/articles that get 1 or 2 reads each week. When you add up all my stories that are trending (even just a little bit) that is approximately 175 reads I instantly get every week - without having to work for it. That 175 a week turns unti 758 reads per month which is 9,093 reads per year - that's a lot of reads that I do not have to do anything for.

Now, when we add in the reads I get for my new stories and reads for everything else that gets a read every so often. I am bringing in another 2,500 reads per year Which brings my total to about 15,000 reads per month. That means I will reach the next 26,000 reads in 21 months instead of 26 months. But if we factor in new stories that begin trending in the search engines and such. I will most likely reach the next 26,000 in about 19 months.

There you have it... A small inner slice of Rick's world!!!