Originally posted 2010-10-04 09:06:02. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Site Visitor Report for September 2010
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Site Statistics for Deceber 2010
Returning visitors is up. Continue reading
Originally posted 2011-01-05 08:15:47. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Site Visitor Report for October 2010
Another month, another look at the visitor stats. Not a big change but the numbers are up for the most part. Pageloads grew from 76 to 83 on a daily average basis. Unique visitors are essentially unchanged and first time visitors is down slightly but returning visitors is up. I take the most encouragement from the returning visitors. Those are readers that find value in the information and return. Returning visitors have overcome the loss from last month and a little more.
These stats are reassuring but don’t give me help so far as changes go. I will take them as reassurance that what I am doing is at least ok and continue the same level of activity and time commitment. One other frustration is that so far Google hasn’t deigned to rank my blog. I don’t know their criteria but since it is an accepted acknowledgement of blog success, I keep looking for it to change. I remain a PR 0. I am not whining at this point but from now on it will be part of my status report each month. My Alexa rank at the end of October was 949,466. If I remember, it was slightly higher last month. By including the rank, I will have a better understanding of my progress for November.
Originally posted 2010-11-03 08:36:05. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
The Blogging Saga
It is maybe three years since
To Blog or not to blog?
I began blogging and over that time my vision has evolved. Originally, I was focused on politics and expressing my feelings about various events in the political world. It was all about me. I finally got so incensed and frankly burned out that I withdrew completely for a time. It was clear that I had no insights of a unique nature and was not adding to the general level of discourse. My following was among others with the same perspective. We were reinforcing out own points of view but not changing minds or adding to the dialogue. It was mildly satisfying but ultimately more work than I could justify and, of course, I didn’t build a big following. Continue reading
Originally posted 2009-11-04 10:01:10. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Send a coffee to CommentLuv
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Small gifts are big.
Eleanor with her blog Give a Brick is a great example of how helping people is not just something for the wealthy and powerful. She shows how small contributions from ordinary people can change the world, or at least a small piece of the world and give great satisfaction. She says “Give a Brick” meaning give a small amount that you can afford and see how it can make a difference, help people and promote causes. A brick is a small thing but get a lot of them and you can build a cathedral. If you don’t know Eleanor, you should visit Give a Brick and get acquainted.
Give a coffee
In the spirit of Eleanor, I am suggesting today that we all Give a Coffee to CommenLuv. Almost every WordPress blogger will know that CommentLuv is the wonderful plugin that adds your latest post to the information provided when you add a comment. I am new to CommentLuv and am loving it but like a lot of people, I am happy to take free for granted and haven’t made a contribution to CommentLuv to let it’s author know how much I appreciate the effort.
Lately, CommentLuv has been slow in reflecting the most current post causing me to complain. How is it that this wonderful FREE service isn’t quite current? I came up with a couple of hypotheses:
1. CommentLuv is so successful and has so many users that the resources are strained.
2. The author of CommentLuv has to focus attention on other activities to feed small children at home.
These are just my ideas and may be completely wrong but it suggests that perhaps CommentLuv is not feeling the ‘Luv’ from it’s users in a way that makes it easy to keep operating smoothly.
Show the Luv
My solution today is to Give a Coffee to CommentLuv. Not literally but metaphorically like Eleanor’s Bricks. A fancy coffee in the US is about $4.00 so I just sent the value of a coffee to CommentLuv just to let the author know that I’m ‘luvin’ it. And I urge any of you that are loving CommentLuv like I am and haven’t given yet, give a coffee too. CommentLuv is worth way more than $4.00 but sending a coffee is a way to say to the author that I value this service and appreciate the work behind it. What about you? You can do it here.
Originally posted 2010-02-01 00:04:58. Republished by Blog Post Promoter