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After a month, I expanded things a bit.
Bredemarket is focusing on the channels that matter:
And no, the unsubscribable Instagram is not in my current mix.
Remember when I originally shared this video?
Focusing on some things means not focusing on others.
With reason.
In the first 1 1/2 months of 2026, the Bredemarket blog received traffic from Bluesky.
1 view.
So I haven’t posted on Bluesky in a month.
Until today.
At https://bsky.app/profile/bredemarket.bsky.social
Let’s see if I can double my Bluesky to WordPress traffic.
A boy can dream.
Scary to think about it, but even after I quit renewing the paid Bredemarket domain, the Bredemarket blog will live on under a WordPress URL.
Until Automattic isn’t.
There are many controversial uses of land, one of which is data centers. And most of us use them.
When I use SaaS resources or generative AI tools, I’m making use of a data center…somewhere. For example, when I created the image at the top of this post with Google Gemini…and when I uploaded this post to WordPress so you could read it.
But what if the data center was next door to ME? Would I feel differently about data center use?
Warren County, Virginia (Front Royal) is more rural than other counties in the state, such as Fairfax County. And someone is proposing a data center in Warren County.
This prompted a letter to the editor from Cara Aldridge Young, a former high school classmate of mine. (And a talented editor herself, if your company needs one.) Young examined the negatives surrounding data centers:
“Data centers are not quiet, invisible neighbors. They are warehouse-scale buildings surrounded by substations, transmission lines, backup generators, cooling systems, security fencing, and 24-hour lighting. They require enormous amounts of electricity and millions of gallons of water for cooling. In a county that has already experienced drought restrictions and ongoing grid concerns, it’s fair to question whether we are equipped to support that scale of development without long-term environmental and infrastructure consequences.”
I don’t have a feel how Warren County will respond to this request; I haven’t visited Front Royal in decades. But Young presumably isn’t the only resident with concerns about power, water, and the environment.
But I’m sure there are counties that would welcome the economic development, the tax revenue, and the jobs. (Well, not that many jobs.)
On my side of the country, the big infrastructure concern is warehouses, such as the Amazon distribution center in Eastvale, California.
But at least warehouses employ people.
I often reshare my posts on social media, but sometimes I don’t.
This post won’t be reshared on Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, or anywhere else.
It’s specifically and only intended for Bredemarket’s WordPress subscribers.
The message?
Thank you.
If you’re of a certain age, enjoy this.
If you’re younger, enjoy this.
March 29 update here.
At least temporarily, Bredemarket is focusing on:
Update to my prior post: Google Analytics shows lower numbers for February 5.
Why?
Google Gemini suggests bots may be to blame.
The internet is full of “bots” (automated scripts from search engines or malicious actors).
Google Analytics has an industry-leading database of known bots and filters them out very aggressively to give you “human” data.
Jetpack also filters bots, but its list is different. Jetpack often catches fewer bots than Google, which usually results in Jetpack showing higher traffic numbers than GA.
Still unanswered: why did the bots swarm on that particular day?
Looks like disregarding the traffic is the correct choice.
Even with thousands of pages of blog posts, the Bredemarket website doesn’t get a ton of traffic.
But once a month or so, traffic jumps up dramatically for a single day.
For example:
No idea why. Unlike April-May 2025, it wasn’t any individual post/page. No individual page had more than 16 views. And no identified source (Facebook, search engines, etc.) accounts for the jump.
If I knew why these surges happened, I’d try to make it happen more than once a month.
But for now I disregard them.
(All times Pacific.)
Update here.
Inspired by the Constant Contact session I attended at the Small Business Expo, I wanted to conceptualize the Bredemarket online presence, and decided to adopt a “planet with rings” model.
Think of Bredemarket as a planet. Like Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Jupiter, the planet Bredemarket is surrounded by rings.
The closest ring to the planet is the Bredemarket mailing list (MailChimp).
The next closest ring is the Bredemarket website (WordPress).
Moving outward, we find the following rings:
While this conceptualization is really only useful to me, I thought a few of you may be interested in some of the “inner rings.”
And if you’re wondering why your favorite way cool platform is banished to the outer edges…well, that’s because it doesn’t make Bredemarket any money. I’ve got a business to run here, and TikTok doesn’t help me pay the bills…
Now it can be told.
Bredemarket hasn’t used paid advertising in years, but I recently ran a small ad for 4 days using Blaze, as offered by WordPress.
Even though Blaze was too broad for me to accurately specify my target audience.
So what were the final results?
But this did give me some ideas, should I want to conduct a more targeted paid campaign in the future.
Or a more targeted organic campaign.
But let me ask you about your experience:
And no, I’m not tired of the video yet.
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