We are both leaving for very similar reasons and I can postpone deleting the page for 14 days. I will think about that for a moment, before I make my final decision. I just know that all author's are doing exactly what you have just said. We post Facebook and Twitter before mentioning our sites and in many ways we interact with people more on Facebook which waste vital clicks to get to our pages. As you know we all only have about three scrolls/clicks before a person moves on to another website or back to Facebook.
The thing is we all have to generate some type of blogroll and then we have to be sure to begin interacting or at least visiting other websites daily.
This is what writers have to understand, and I'm speaking from sneaker experience which translates to any place where we rely on sales, when you sell through your own site you make more money. I'm sure the problem for most is that they don't have a strong e-mail list and they don't know how to generate enough traffic to get people to their sites.
I've been able to get people to my sneaker site because I have what they want and people still google shoes. We know that googling things will lead to the bigger sites first, so, "how do you get people to your site?" is the million dollar question.
I've made certain now to visit your message board daily to check in. I may not scroll through all of the blogs, but I did click through and buy a pair of Allen Edmonds shoes the other day. How will people see your links to other sites? My link list alphabetized and in widget areas throughout my site. Every author isn't as web savvy so how do we get them up to speed?