News from a Weird World is in Jeopardy Feedback Requested

If you read my articles you are almost certainly aware of my News From A Weird World series that I publish every Wednesday, and have been doing so since February 2010.

Despite people leaving wonderful comments to say how much they enjoy these offbeat news stories, the articles have never attracted a lot of visitors unfortunately, despite my best efforts to promote them.

In the last six months I have changed the name from the much used "Offbeat News" to "News From A Weird World", and taken guidance from Marie Anne St. Jean as well, changing the initial paragraphs and the format of the articles.

Traffic was beginning to build up, however in the last two months, probably since Google changed things around, the traffic has dropped to a level where it's just not worth the effort to write these.

It takes me several hours of research to find articles to report on, then to write my take on each news story, but when I find that having published the article, I only have 60 page views, it's really depressing.

If I analyze the page views, let's say that the average reader reads the first 3 pages of each article, and then leaves a comment. That's 4 page views each, which means that very likely only 15 people have seen what I have written, and I know that they are almost certainly from Yahoo Contributor Network because of their comments.

Very often articles take a day or two before they are indexed in the search engines, but when I find that even by the weekend my total page views for the latest article are struggling to reach 100, I have to ask what I am doing wrong.

If changing the name, creating a new logo, and improving the format isn't helping, and things are just slumping, maybe it's just better if I forget the whole thing and spend my time trying to write something that is going to be profitable.

The last two days my total page views on YCN were under 200 per day, which for close to 700 articles is very very sad indeed.

So finally, I ask for suggestions as to what I ought to do with News From A Weird World?

Should I just ditch it and spend my time writing something else?

Should I try and publish it elsewhere, for example Qondio, Redgage, Bukisa etc?

Should I change the format and/or name yet again and see what happens?

How about publishing five shorter articles instead of one that has five stories?

Any feedback that you leave will be much appreciated. Of course if only 15 people read this, I won't be in the least bit surprised.