What I’ve learnt from my blog so far.
By Ross. Filed in Uncategorized |
Somewhere in between xmas and New Year and my marathon blogging session from the Poon Hill trek, my website had its 100,000th hit. Not too bad as I only started the website three months ago. Whilst the website is only in its infancy and will hopefully evolve into greater things in the near future, I’d like to thank everyone for their support, especially those I have never met but are just interested in travel adventures.
One of the more interesting things about hosting your own website is the stats and figures that are provided to you by your host, such as who’s looking at your website to the origin of country. It was from this info that I know that hit 100,000 was from someone living in Croydon. I certainly don’t know anyone from Croydon so if it was you, drop me a line and I’ll send you a postcard.
One of the more interesting services that my host provides is a list of the all the keywords that have been typed into to Google, which has then directed someone to your site. Now I would love to think my biggest draw would be travel, backpacking or even an individual location that I have blogged on. Sadly it seems my biggest keyword hit is Japanese Girls in Delhi. In a blog from Delhi I reported that there were a couple of Japanese girls in my hotel who never left the reception and from that I have had more than two thousand individual hits from people looking for Japanese girls in Delhi. So it seems my biggest appeal to Google are sex tourists. Not exactly what I set out for.
If I have learnt one thing so far as a blogger, it is that you do not piss off alternative medicine fans. The blog on my one day Reiki Master session is by far and away the most looked at item on my website. I can only presume it was copy and pasted on many Reiki message boards and in turn outraged Reiki fans seemed to descend on my website to send me hate mail by the bucket load. I found this quite amusing at first, but the other day I alone had 74 spam emails sent to me by Reiki people. I will soon print a positive article of ear candling in a hope you win back the alternative medicine crowd.
One of the features I like is seeing what countries my website is most popular in.
Here is my current top 10.
1. United States
2. Great Britain
3. Russia
4. Taiwan
5. Sweden
6. Australia
7. Germany
8. China
9. Singapore
10. Holland
Big in Taiwan! Yay.
Thanks to everyone for checking out my site. Hopefully the next three months will prove as fun to write about as the last ones.
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Wednesday, January 13th 2010 at 2:50 pm |
Hey, in my opinion, if you receive hate mail…you’ve made it! Sweet stats!
Wednesday, January 13th 2010 at 2:53 pm |
Ha! All publicity is good publicity!
Thursday, January 14th 2010 at 5:42 am |
Hey, sorry to burst your bubble but you might wanna look up the definition of hits on google as it is the visitors stat which tells you how many people have actually viewed your site. eg An important distinction is the concept of “visitors” versus “hits”. Each person who visits your site is considered a “visitor”. Each time a visitor looks at a page, that page and its contents are accessed, including the graphics on the page. As example, say that your home page has two graphics on it, plus some text. That is considered THREE elements on the page. When a visitor visits that page once, your statistics will show ONE visitor and THREE hits.