Sunday, March 27, 2005
A Watch Blog Never Boils
I guess I can say I now have a reasonable amount of content on my site. I have had a few visitors that have taken the much-appreciated time to leave BlogHop reviews by clicked on one of the five little boxes, Green−Loved−It thru Red−Hated−It in the sidebar. Originally I had hoped to use this blog just to be a stepping stone to my other web content, but I find BNL becoming my main obsession.
I have just added a visit count to BNL. I started it at 100, which seemed a fair number. I waited about half an hour, it had gone from 111 to 115. So new visits 112 thru 115, but since I’m 115 this makes 112 thru 114 visits other than myself -- so 3 visits. The other 10 hits were from experimenting, formatting, and making sure it was working. I don’t know that it was exactly a half-hour, this last check was at 1:19pm central-standard time, we’ll check again as close to 2:19pm as possible to see what the hourly visit rate is. Of course today is Easter Sunday, so I don’t know if that will slow visits or increase them over any other random hour.
Of course I still won’t know where the visits are coming from, but I’m pretty sure for now the majority are coming from Blogger’s Next-Blog button from sites with the Blogger Navigation Bar enabled. I have clicked thru hundreds of sites myself using the Navigation Bar. I post to Slashdot.org frequently, so when I have a highly moderated comment I’ll probably also see some spikes in visitation -- BNL being listed in my signature line.
It is my plan to promote BNL in the future, but only in a limited way, hoping to slowly climb in visibility with patience, persistence, frequent posting, and quality.
Coming up on 2:19, and the count is…. 116, subtracting one for me that makes, err, um, uh, ZERO new visitors in that last hour. Serves me right however, having already decided on the tittle for this post.
Time to get away from the keyboard. I need to think up some genuinely interesting things to post about. I’m a bit drained after the update to one of my other blogs “Larry’s Life” as mentioned in the post just before this one. Next weekend I’ll be visiting Indianapolis again, this time with my friend A.C. So if nothing else interesting happens between then and now, expect a posting about our nightclub hopping.
BTW, I wasn’t sure what to expect from the new “Battlestar Galactica” but I can’t say enough good things about this Sci-Fi channel series. I think it is about the only genuine science fiction I have seen on TV, and it asks a lot of what-does-it-mean-to-be-human questions similar to those raised in the movie “Blade Runner” though in a totally different setting.
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1 Comments:
Found it through "next blog." Gave you a "pretty good" Bloghop rating-hey, why the heck not?
Good luck,
By Goody, at March 28, 2005
