So far I’ve gotten a lot of very positive responses from my Shoegnome Youtube Channel video tutorials. And it’s definitely helped increase traffic to the blog. 7 of my 10 best traffic weeks have been since I started doing the videos in the middle of December 2011. And I’m sure once I post my 7th video (next week?), I’ll break the 10,000 views mark (I’m at roughly 8,500 views right now). Making the videos has been a blast. In many ways it’s more fun than writing blog posts. Whichever you like more, you’re in luck; now that I’m doing Shoegnome full-time, I plan on doing more of both.

And I also plan on experimenting. You might have noticed one of my more recent experiments: the Amazon widget. So far that’s not doing much for me. Well the next time you go to the Youtube Channel, you’ll notice my latest experiment: ads connected to the videos. I’ll try it for a while and see if it makes economic sense to continue with the advertisements. Please let me know if they are too annoying. While I’m interested in finding ways to make the blog more self-supporting, I don’t want to lessen it’s value or do things that become annoying. Hopefully I’m just over thinking this. Anyways, the first official week of Shoegnome 2.0 is going great. Lots more coming up!