What's Up With This Blog?
I have a page (like all bloggers do I'm sure) that tells you how many times something has been clicked on, and where readers were referred from and things like that. I think it's fun to see how many hits there were yesterday or what people searched for. Here's a few http://kimsingleton.wordpress.com/ facts:
1. Yesterday someone searched "calories in stuffed avocado at luna de noche" and hit my site. I had to try it. If you google this phrase, my site is the first to come up. :) I had no idea that luna had a stuffed avocado, but next time I'm in town guess what I'm having! And guess what, if you're the kind of person who googles about calories, I can pretty much guarantee you don't want to know the calorie count!
2. My all-time high day, with a whopping 73 readers, was Saturday, October 18, 2008. I didn't even have a post that day! But the most recent post (10/14/08) did have a photo of Troy....coincidence?
3. My most frequent hit entry and most googled is "lobster roll" or "New england hot dog bun". It hits that AMAZING photo, I stole from another site by the way, from "This Makes Me Happy" about Haley's upcoming trip. If you google "lobster roll new england hot dog bun" and hit images, there they are. And they ARE good photos...makes me want a lobster roll everytime I see it. Wish I had taken them.
4. I have no idea how this fares with others, but I've had 7,370 views this past year with 132 posts and 263 comments. 28 views so far today and the highest number of referrers this last year was from Katie's blog. Most viewed post (after the lobster roll of course): "My Trip to Texas" with 164 viewings. Lowest viewed blog: "Texas Our Texas" with only 1 viewing. Smack dab in the middle of the pack: "Happy 30th Brithday, John. I Love You!"
5. The blogs's been so fun. I've enjoyed writing and posting the photos. It's been a way this past year or so to show you photos of my life up here....the scenery, the snow, the people, the activities, the cities and the beaches. You've seen the boat and the lakehouse and the food and the day in and day out of my life in Connecticut. It's been fun reading your comments! I always get a kick out of them.
But as another year rolls around and it's Evan's birthday again, and Hebron Fair again, and the Apple Festival again, and Halloween costumes again, and everything AGAIN this next year....I guess I'm wondering are you over it? Has the blog run it's course? Is it more of a pain to check it than fun to read it? And I guess I'm asking you, the one who's read #1-#4 and stuck with my ramblings today, the real daily/weekly readers. Are you over it? Is it time to give it up? Are you bored? Is there something different you want from the blog? Let me know.....I'm open for comments, thoughts, general statements of any sort....you're not going to hurt my feelings, be honest. ;)
1. Yesterday someone searched "calories in stuffed avocado at luna de noche" and hit my site. I had to try it. If you google this phrase, my site is the first to come up. :) I had no idea that luna had a stuffed avocado, but next time I'm in town guess what I'm having! And guess what, if you're the kind of person who googles about calories, I can pretty much guarantee you don't want to know the calorie count!
2. My all-time high day, with a whopping 73 readers, was Saturday, October 18, 2008. I didn't even have a post that day! But the most recent post (10/14/08) did have a photo of Troy....coincidence?
3. My most frequent hit entry and most googled is "lobster roll" or "New england hot dog bun". It hits that AMAZING photo, I stole from another site by the way, from "This Makes Me Happy" about Haley's upcoming trip. If you google "lobster roll new england hot dog bun" and hit images, there they are. And they ARE good photos...makes me want a lobster roll everytime I see it. Wish I had taken them.
4. I have no idea how this fares with others, but I've had 7,370 views this past year with 132 posts and 263 comments. 28 views so far today and the highest number of referrers this last year was from Katie's blog. Most viewed post (after the lobster roll of course): "My Trip to Texas" with 164 viewings. Lowest viewed blog: "Texas Our Texas" with only 1 viewing. Smack dab in the middle of the pack: "Happy 30th Brithday, John. I Love You!"
5. The blogs's been so fun. I've enjoyed writing and posting the photos. It's been a way this past year or so to show you photos of my life up here....the scenery, the snow, the people, the activities, the cities and the beaches. You've seen the boat and the lakehouse and the food and the day in and day out of my life in Connecticut. It's been fun reading your comments! I always get a kick out of them.
But as another year rolls around and it's Evan's birthday again, and Hebron Fair again, and the Apple Festival again, and Halloween costumes again, and everything AGAIN this next year....I guess I'm wondering are you over it? Has the blog run it's course? Is it more of a pain to check it than fun to read it? And I guess I'm asking you, the one who's read #1-#4 and stuck with my ramblings today, the real daily/weekly readers. Are you over it? Is it time to give it up? Are you bored? Is there something different you want from the blog? Let me know.....I'm open for comments, thoughts, general statements of any sort....you're not going to hurt my feelings, be honest. ;)
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p.s. Love the baby propped up on his chin - made me laugh!
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