User blog comment:Radical M/Goodbye.../@comment-4669666-20110218185756/@comment-1874924-20110218223804

Timing can be a big factor in how many eyeballs a blog post draws. For example, if you make a post at the same time as a lot of people are commenting on another blog post, your post can fall off the top page of the Activity Feed before people really have a chance to notice it.

I recently encountered this problem in spades. In the last 10 days or so, I made four blog posts on various topics: my anniversary post; the "lost" Legacy chapter as part of a special joint post with Sunshine; an unscheduled LTDI preview; and my scheduled Valentine's Day LTDI preview. None got the kind of traffic I was expecting, with traffic to my anniversary post being especially disappointing.