Notes from the web editor.

This began as a post on my own blog, but I quickly realized that it should probably be crossposted here.

[Watcher Junior has] been a neat project.  I've been focusing a lot on SEO for WJ's website.  Now, for a little web journal with a very obscure subject ("Whedon Studies"), we've been putting up some excellent numbers in the past week and a half since I've implemented some changes.  We broke 500 hits in the first week, and the past two days alone gave us 115 hits.  ...Yay!  Not bad for an oddball little site.

It's so interesting to see which search engine keywords send people to the site and what articles they go read.  What's really fascinating, though, is seeing where everyone is coming from: Sweden, U.K., Malaysia, Australia, Germany!  I didn't realize Buffy got so much international love.  In addition to the SEO, I started a Twitter account (@watcherjunior) and a Facebook Page for Watcher Junior to try to spread the word to the masses, especially since the fifth issue is getting ready for publication.  And there's also the blog.  I'm hoping that we can use that to give regular updates on the Slayage Conference as well as provide insights as Issue 5 gets closer to going live.

That is how I've been spending a whole lot of my time, and I've been loving it.  I really want to get back into this "web thing."  I've been around since HTML 1, messing around and coding in Notebook when I was 13 years old (...early-mid 1990s).  It was exciting then and it's exciting now; I love seeing what we can do with a site, some code, a good connection, and awesome social media connections.