Re: OK, since you're the tough act to follow, what were YOUR hit/view stats?

> Please share with us your stats over the 48 months of your stewardship 
> there, and contrast it with your new SkateGrrl site.  Thanks.

I would love to share those numbers, but if I was *too* specific it
would
get me in hot water with About.com.  But I will say that whoever runs
the About.com inline skating site will have access to a huge skating
community (many thousands of page views per day, although I was never
told how many unique visitors that was).

I started SkateLog.com last November (a year ago) and it's doing
really well now, even though I have not yet finished moving my files
from SkateGRRL.com to SkateLog.com. I'm typically getting about 6000
unique visitors a day and couple of weeks ago I had a day with 8000
unique visitors (I was EXCITED that day!)
 
> > FROM ABOUT.COM: "Guides get paid a minimum of $500 for their first
> > full-month on the network and continue to earn at least $500 as long
> > as they increase page views each month."
> So you never earn MORE than $500?  You have to keep increasing the 
> popularity of the site just to maintain the $500??  Or can you earn more 
> than $500/month?  Not sure I follow.

If you increase page views every month, you will be paid at least $500
(according to the information published on the About.com recruiting
page) but you could possibly make more, because you are paid based on
how well your site does.  You could also be paid less if your page
views don't increase.

> Anyway, not to be dense, or belabor the $$ angle, but wouldn't you say that 
> you benefitted from the EXPOSURE (publicity) moreso than the monthly 
> stipend?  (i.e. the groupies, the Pepsi and Nike endorsements, lecture 
> circuit, TODAY Show appearances, etc... ;')

The exposure was huge (although no Tonight show appearances... YET)
and it opened up many opportunities for me, but the real reason I kept
doing the site so long, is because it was FUN and very rewarding to
write skating articles and interact with the world skating community. 
Also, running an About.com Web site is the very best training a
beginning Webmaster could get.  And yeah, ok, the pay was not so bad
either.  But it was never enough to make me do the site for the money
alone.

- Kathie Fry, Editor
- htttp://www.skatelog.com