I'm just sittin' watching the wheels go round

I kind of have to laugh at some of the things I see by just sitting back and watching. I guess I have always been a bit of a people watcher. I used to like to sit and watch people during happy hour back in my younger days and when I drank. Today, with the internet though, there is so much more to see. One thing that I have really had a good skill of and that is to keep quiet and learn. You can learn so much by simply being observant. Just look at what works and what doesn't , the winners and the losers, what they did right or what they did wrong. People tell me I am a great cook and I do enjoy it. Everything I know about cooking has come from watching and doing. I suppose I have applied this simple technique to most of my life and it seems to work well for me. I am not really sure where or who the trait actually came from, but it had to be in the early years of my life.

Any way, I have been observing this one site for quite some time and just watching how the story unfolds. I find these people's behavior somewhat interesting only because of the way they have put their whole show together. The strange thing is that it is like watching a movie that you know how it will end because so many others have used the plot before. Then there is a second site that is involved and I will say that these two for some reason have a deep personality conflict. Again though the situation was so laid out that I could have bet on how each would have acted and won!

One of the sites is for the most part all original content in writing and style. The writer, who I have met and spent some time with is very sensible, cool, calm and collective. That is the usual case any way. It looks as though somehow these other people have found it easy to get under the guys skin. Now, the second site, the owners I do not know but through several emails, boast of being more than what they could hope to be by the way they do things. They never really write original content, except when they have an opinion. The claim to be the first (or real close) in putting a story out, yet most of their work is no more than copy and paste. I suppose if you copy some one's story and it was the first out, then you were close to being the first to print it??? And then they use the term I used to hear so much back when I was in the adult industry of "we are not in this for the money, we just enjoy it" "it is a labor of love". This statement is so rogue, especially when the site is covered with ads, pop-up and an area hidden to paying members only. They have said end of mention too many times to count only to bring the same issue up days later simply to ride out the traffic wave on a name. I suspect the other person has seen this too and this is what gets him going. I laughed hard at how this writer made mention of the others in a story back a couple of months ago. The dig was in words that only those who knew the background of the issue would know of whom he was speaking. To me, he showed class by this way of digging at them, where many readers were unaware of who he was talking about.

So now these two sites are in a word war ( I think this is the second or third) about stats and certain targeted keywords. Both sites are commercial, one is clear on that while the other claims not to be. One is well composed in design with relevant ads that blend is pretty well, while the other pages are constantly in error trying to cram as much advertising and plugins into one page as thay can. Both sites claim the other one have somehow inflated their stats or are not using the correct way and means to measure them. Why am I writing about this? Because I find it somewhat comical and in a way it intrigues me. I have never been a huge fan of stats myself other than where my readers and traffic come from. As far as how many? Well, you are reading this, you found it somehow and that is clear enough for me. This story is true and no names were mentioned intentionally because it happens all over the internet everyday.