The update to the Mandelbulb galleries is still far from being finished (about 120 images added so far, out of 450), but I’m also doing some extra fine tuning to the site in general while it’s being done, as I’ve noticed that the traffic is really low, or at least much lower than it once was. I know the site was really abandoned for a while but it should still be properly indexed by Google and others, and it’s not. I fixed some descriptions in the FracInt galleries (I will do the same to the other galleries), and I tried to start adding tags to the images to maybe help the so-called “SEO” of the site, but it seems that the tag system for the galleries is not the same as the system used for the site, so I can’t reuse the tags that already exist for the site and individual posts, they need to be recreated specifically for the gallery plugin. It’s not that hard, but it would be nice if it could reuse the already created tags.

I still don’t know what to do to improve the traffic to the site, but maybe because it just have images and not very much fractal-related material (links and tutorials, for example), it doesn’t have much that can make it stand out in a search engine. I know that there is an user on Instagram that uses the very same name as my site but we’re not related at all. The link to this Instagram profile appears higher than my own site on Google, go figure.

Sometimes I wonder if running a website that doesn’t deal with specific services in the category of the site, which is what might bring extra traffic and attention – if it’s an artistic site for example, selling your artwork is one service you can provide – is really worth the effort in this social media era. Personal pages or portfolio-like pages are not very interesting anymore it seems. Long gone are the days where you could go visit a page about a certain subject or person and find it interesting and with good or enough information beyond the basics. If I post an image on a fractal group on Facebook or in some other social media it probably will be much more noticed than if posted here, but that’s just an image loosen in the middle of a billion others. And also, maintaining a website is much more tedious and expensive… but I refuse to give up.