As you can see from the image below my blog has gone from strength to strength in the last year, visitor wise. This is mainly due to the Kevin McDaid debacle, being linked to by The Guardian, Brent Corrigan and some helpful links from many a good blog. In fact all this linking means I've got a higher page rank than the company I work for!! Yay! I'd also like to thank every man who has gone topless for photographs... you've really helped bump my Google Images results up! :o) Last month we broke 100,000 visitors (70,000 in the last year) and 11,000 visitors in one month.
Over the last five years this blog (and a few pretenders) has been my constant companion. It's been there for me for me to dump on through suicide attempts (how immature), run away successes, changing jobs, dumping boyfriends, being dumped, multiple "shags", that time at uni and many a visit to a strange town. I know this is all a bit navel gazing and self important. But, Dear Constant Reader, this is my diary. No one forces you to read this stuff. It's all about ME. My blogs entire purpose in life is to be selfish, arrogant and inward looking.
I've always hated those who poo-poo blogging. Blogging is what you make it.
Having page stats is all good encouragement to carry on. How is this done? Is this a blogger feature?
ReplyDeleteThis is the thing that annoys me with Live Journal. Your only gauge of readership is comments and if you only get one or two after writing something interesting it's a bit gutting. I like the idea of stats though.
I use a counter from Sitemeter.com. All it requires is the insertion of some simple code into your HTML. It evens gives instructions if your not too sure how to do this (although by the looks of your LJ it shouldn't be a problem for you!)
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