IC Circuit Functions

I was checking page visits for the year and found a number of new pages not getting any page views, and that have not been blogged about yet. I'm sure there are more but these pages received under 10 page views for the year.

Under the IC Functional Schematics;
Dual Input NOR Gate.
Dual Input XOR Gate.
8-Bit Latch.
MICA Capacitor Part Marking.
Styles of Capacitor Trimmers.

It's a bit late for any of these pages to help with the year end numbers, and the fact that they received less than 10 page views means they wouldn't put a dent in the numbers any way. But I'll blog about the new additions, but I think I added these pages a few months ago. I don't even think these pages will end up with 365 page views next year either.  However sometimes is nice to have a page to round out a topic, it not really just about page views.

Glue Logic Functions

About five months ago I started a new section covering basic IC functions. Of course when I started it, the section only consisted of a few pages but every month of so I add another page. Better yet I go back to one of the previous page addition and add more data.

So a week or so I added a new page covering the 74L121 Monostable Multivibrator [also 74L122]. In addition a sub page to hold the 74L121 Timing Graphs, which were a bit larger to fit on the same page.

These new pages relate to a few others already listed; Transistor One Shots, and a CMOS One Shot IC, and the 555 One Shot.

I think the newest page before that covered Hex Inverter ICs. Before that I think it was Bus Transceiver ICs. The point is that the section is slowly growing in size, and content. Engineering Topics home.

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Why are pages getting no visitors

So I'm checking pages, just to see how they are doing this year from last year. Some aren't doing well with a drop in page views while other pages are just new.

Rotor Diagram, 2 month old page with just 5 page views.
Sample and Hold Definition, I think another new page with 5 views.
Distortion Definition. Yet another 3 month old page with no page views.

I'm using Google Web Master Tools to check page views, and there are misspelled pages getting more hits than these pages. Of course the misspelled one just show a 404 page not found.

Again two more new pages with only 7 page views. The real issue is that half of those page visits must be from me. So the rule is adding a new page may not bring in any new visitors to the site, at least in the short run. Having to wait two or three months just to get a few page views takes a little planing ahead, or at least not really needing additional page views any time soon.
Shrouded Header Definition. does not appear to be index yet
Unshrouded Header Definition. may not be index by Google yet either

Besides being a new page it appears that the few pages covering MIL-STD-100 are doing the worst or at least showing a decline in page views over last year.
BNC Adapter Definition, with maybe 15 page views.
None of these new pages have any incoming links, so the low views also indicate that no one already on the site are viewing these pages.
SCSI Interface Diagram. maybe 20 page views.
They also don't appear in a Google search yet which also indicates they may not have been spidered by Google yet. Google reads between 300 and 500 pages a day and I only have maybe 2000 pages, so you would think that within a week any new page would be spidered. However this two month old page does show up; What is a Tee Connector.

So I guess my advice would be to wait six months before a new page starts bring in any additional page views. And that only counts if the page has something to offer, some of my new pages have very little text which is what the search engine needs to rank a page.

How to Mount a Resistor

I added a new page to cover some issues and things to consider when mounting a resistor to a Printed Wiring Board; as Resistor Mounting. This new page compliments a number of other resistor related pages including Resistor Lead Length, and the dictionary entry on Resistor Mounting Considerations.

Most of the PCB mounting issues should deal with through hole resistors and not surface mount resistors, but I'm not done writing the page yet. In most cases mounting issues for surface mount resistors is provided in the data sheet, which isn't true for through hole resistors. There are just to many ways to mount through hole resistors to include all the different variations in the data sheet.

I'll keep working a bit on the page today and then get back to it on the next time working that section of the web site.

Doppler Shift Frequency

One of the new pages added a few weeks ago but never entered here related to Doppler Shift Definitions. I think the only page that links to it is the Doppler Definition in the dictionary of Radar terms. However because these new additions have not been crawled yet I can't be sure.

Anyway I came across the page so I listed it here, but it was added a week ago..