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https://www.deviantart.com/axlreigns --------------------- Watch for watch is interesting in this regard . Why is it good?  Certain features related to monetization or analytics features are unlocked at certain viewer or interaction numbers. If you have a need or vested interest, it is less work to use watch for watch to reach those levels and be able to use those features. For monetization purposes, you probably want to actually be doing the work to get real fans because they’ll be the ones that buy products. I’m sure for viewership money, you can run an elaborate scam that pays out using a bunch of bots and watch for watch somehow, which is probably the smart thing to chase, but we’re not doing that. Why is it bad? It’s increases likelihood that popularity and deceit control the world as opposed to creations of true merit. That mediocrity, not skill and hard work, and people that truly contribute, win, which will eventually remove the amount of peo...

https://www.deviantart.com/axlreigns From the above link. ---------------------- Effort is best spent on strong presentation and networking. That decreases bounce rate, and if you are ‘charming’ or get ‘interactions’ once they are there, you are more likely to seduce the fucking customer into buying something. Er. or charm them.  I think the ‘dumb version’ included in pinterest, twitter, and deviantart will satisfy most of your needs without interacting with a platform that is more complex. It is worth the effort if you want to learn a skill set more likely to consistently pay than art. (Depending. Or if you’re like interested in warfare or whatever.) In name of time for set up and review, would stick with the simpler versions for someone that doesn’t have anything set up.

Snarky, Crossbone Pirate. https://www.deviantart.com/axlreigns From the above links stories. -------------------- --Uses code but for most of the major platforms you don’t have to put it in or even open that shit up, you just sign up, you get some random number, and there’s a place to plug it in. Session:  30 minutes. Doesn’t track after inactivity, new one if reloads. Tracks from where, what system, what computer, location, so on. For the most part, it looks like all you need, and i wouldn’t even necessarily recommend engaging with google analytics for this project, is the raw views that come with just attaching the tracking id. The rest is useful if you want to pursue some job that has a better chance of freedom, but for setting up and running just a side art thing, the information you get from plugging it in is more than enough. Overview has most of it: You can see if you are increasing by what your doing in a handy graph. At the bottom of it is a ...

https://www.deviantart.com/axlreigns Crossbone Pirate flint, from the stories in the above links. ----------------- Bounce Rate: Kind of gives you an idea if your landing page is compelling or your art is compelling. It’s the rate of people that hit your page and immediately leave. If it’s low, it’s good, people are staying and poking around. It is a percentage though, so it’ll be influenced by a few that spend a ton of time. *from what I understand. Other things that likely decrease a bounce rate that are unrelated to quality of artwork: --Does the person have a profile picture that makes them look attractive. XD --Do they have interesting words in the first page.

https://www.deviantart.com/axlreigns ------------------------- Protecting self stuff: Knowing that someone was looking at your activity page a lot, if it bothered you, you can then easily hide what you are doing under a thousand thank you for the llama posts and unless they are very persistent, they probably won’t go down that far. Depends. Don’t visit small self-coded pages if you suspect ‘they’ in this case the people that stalked, harassed, and attacked every aspect of you and the guy that called you when you went out side or to a grocery store to say creepy stuff, and so on, know the device belongs to you. Probably best to just avoid any pages that give someone access to that much information about you. Get lost in the giant websites where there’s more noise.

One of the pirates from the stories found here: https://www.deviantart.com/axlreigns ------------------ What I learned this one was intersting Google analytics can show you what pages people visit, and how much time they spend there. I found out that someone spends or spent a -lot- of time on my activity page, which was interesting cause I didn’t even know that there was a page that listed all my activity and every action I did on the platform. It was useful to find that page--Other than that, I got proof that sharing the Your-character- here stuff was working as it was the most viewed page for a while after...XD spamming it to a bunch of sales sites.  Downside, it was not appealing enough to get faves or get buys. The artwork itself might not have been appealing, but people definitely came and looked at it a lot, so whether they saw it or not was easy to access in one page (You could do that manually, but nice to see it without having to pull up each page and ...

Drew this croc skull after drawing a lot of the crossbones pirates, and for my own entertainment, mostly. Liked how it came out. -------------------------------------- Twitter Twitter dates anyone who uses their API. They’re basically sort of powerful and sleep with everyone. Reckon facebook and instagram are that way too but they don’t talk to me anymore cause they’re rapists and sensitive about anyone talking about it. Business.twitter.com is good and accessible for reading.  No audience insights for less than 1000 followers Targets: Region (want a small specific area to here your message or see your product (buy locals or buy americans) Followers of where you make fan art   Certain interests.  Horrifying to think of the other use for this BUT we aren’t getting into that cause it’s not useful right now. Aquisition -- hey there’s someone doing something here, and if they stay and are interested you acquired. Behavior--If beyo...