Learning As I Go

I have been experimenting the last few days and the one thing I am finding out is not to take shortcuts. With http://bertsboxofficeblog.com, I have been posting pretty regularlyand I've noticed a nice steady growth in daily traffic. Nothing spectacular, but keeping right up with my 10% increase in visits per week. I haven't been able to get to as many movies as I have wanted, but when I don't have a move to write about, I'll post box office numbers or a list of my favorite movies in a given category. My goal is to have something fresh up everyday, something that is hopefully interesting enough so that people want to come back tomorrow to see what's new.
With http://backwardfuture.com, I wrote everyday last week but then I figured out how to use a new toy. I am not very technically smart about computers so, when I figure out how to do something new, I tend to overdo it. Videos are all over the internet and I finally figured out to copy videos to my site. I did that for 3 days in a row and my visits per day went down everyday. So, I think I learned a lesson. The people that were coming to my site seem to be more interested in my take on things than on a regurgitated video. Today I made a fresh post and took down two of the videos and the numbers are slowly rising. Like I said, I'm learning as I go.