An Experiment

As a storyteller and in the case of this blog, a writer, I am always interested in reaching new people. There are many ways to increase traffic on a website. The most efficient way would appear to allow advertising to show on my page. I see these on other sites and they add to the page load time and are a distraction from the intended content. I don’t like to be interrupted when I’m telling a story and I don’t want people distracted when they’re visiting my site so I don’t allow these adds with the result that I have to rely on word-of-mouth by my current readers and extremely lucky search engine results to get new readers here. I recently had someone comment on my post about Emergency Car Kits and was delighted by it.

Occasionally I gather up the nerve to try something new. I recent discovered my smarter-than-me phone has software that allows me to scan and read QR Codes. Upon playing around with this feature I found a link that allows me to create and track my own codes so I am going to try something. I have generated a QR Code that provides a link to this blog post.



I am going to print it out and post it on bulletin boards around the area and track the usage. This appears to be a growing trend in media distribution. If any of my regular readers are feeling ambitious, I would be delighted to have you do the same. Click on the picture of the code and it will come up in its own view panel. Right Click on the image and save it. It will save as a PNG image but you can treat it like a JPEG. Then just print it out and toss it around! Put it up where ever you think it will have a chance to be scanned. Send it to your tech-savvy friends in their Holiday Cards. I would ask that you please try not to break any laws while distributing this code as it is a direct link to me:) I am interested to see how well, if at all, this works.

If you are a first time visitor to this blog because you scanned the code, I say to you very warmly "Welcome!" I strongly encourage you to leave a comment below and let me know where you saw the code. I’m very pleased you stopped in and hope you return. I truly apprecitate everyone who visits me here in Abretokia. Sometime it's just Me, Myself, and I and we tend to get on each others nerves so visitors are always welcome!