Instant Traffic... Just Add AVCA!POSTED FEB 3, 2011

Two weeks ago, the Audio/Video Component Archive returned to EGrabow.com. The search engines were quick to scan it and traffic immediately began climbing. Although this started as a shameless traffic grab - to stop EG's site ranking from slipping and thus boost the visibility of my novel - I admit that I enjoyed bringing it back. Of course, with great archive comes great responsibility... my perfectionism has been wreaking havoc on me, pointing out the many coverage gaps in the database, listings that need improvement, etc. Much work had been done in 2007, which I then failed to back up. **face palm** Regardless of listing-quality, people who search for the Sony or Kenwood Receivers of yesteryear are being drawn to this site. I can probably expect the "do you sell the manual for this?" e-mails to resume pretty soon.

Alas, the time has come to tear myself away from this project to focus on another. You know, that book thing I was writing. The second one. Yeah... The Day The Rain Came Back.

I stalled out in the fifth chapter and am deciding whether to continue from there or start doing revisions to the top. A month from now I'll have a short vacation, slated as quality writing time, so things will be moving forward again soon. The yet-unsold first novel, Caffeine, needs its attention as well. I pray to see some progress there, and that it'll spur me on with the second novel.

As for the AVCA, I'll be keeping some attention on it, as each listing I add (or re-add **face palm**) raises EG's traffic a little more.

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