My blog is linked about 80 times on 17 different blogs. Which could be seen as an indicator. In terms of number of visitors, I guess, this blog is moderately frequented. Of course, it does not match up with this blog-junkie's ambition.Now I will make perhaps the deepest public confession in my blogging carreer.
I thought of many strategies to increase the number of visitors. One of the ways is to add a link to my signature in my emails.
Another way to increase visitors from certain countries (to fill my cluster map) is to comment on blogs from blogs from Tuvalu, Central Africa, Kazachstan etc. And the saddest thing is that I would comment on blogs that are not even interesting (comments like: "Wow that's really a great post, ... incredible how so much creativity flows out of boredom"). (Really, I repented!)
But if you thought that was pathetic.... this is how low I can go... the epitomy of pathetic.
Lately, I noticed that people put their links in alphabetical order. And since my blog is called "Yet I will Rejoice", it almost always ends up being the last link. (I assume that first links are more often visited.) So I have been contemplating changing the name into "And Yet I Will Rejoice". I even have thought about changing my blogname into Man-san, my official passport name, since the M is before the S(ander).
But fortunately, I gave it a second thought. And now I decide not to do everything for the stats. Let me end with some tags ;-)
Bush,drugs,sex,blogging
6 Comments:
Wow Sander, that's really a great post, ... incredible how so much creativity flows out of boredom...;)
All about the stats huh? That qoute is starting to get famous...
Anyway, I would never do such a thing. My blog jurren.blogspot.com (soon to be renamed to "aaaahhh, me!") is interesting enough for the stats to create themself... So no reaseon to put my blog's name ( jurren.blogspot.com ) in every comment...
(ok, I realize that jurren.blogspot.com doesn't get updated much, so I can understand if people don't visit jurren.blogspot.com a lot...)
But really, I do enjoy your blog! Keep up the good work and don't forget to visit jurren.blogspot.com every once in a while...
JJDe.
Wow that's a really great post... Incredible how so much creativity flows out of boredom! :-)
Sander,
You always make me laugh. At least you put your whole self in what you do, even if it is a bit crazy at times.
I do want to say that it is only a matter of time before people see the wisdom you offer and coming surfing to your site for the latest on the environment, politics or whatever. I know that I have linked to a number of entries you have written.
Keep up the good blogging, and they will come. But even if they don't, remember that many of us enjoy reading your blog.
Sander,
That is hilarious. I literally laughed out loud when I read it--especially the tags. Thanks for sharing your insights and humor with the world!
You're reached the epitome of pathetic, my friend. I laughed hard as well.
We love you're blog. Do because you love it, and others will read.
This is late in commenting, but your blog is really freakin rocking my world. I work at an accounting firm, which I hate and am constantly surfing to pass time while I wait for databases to load and such. This blog regardless of the order it is represented in links is great, keep writing.
With intrigue,
W
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