This past Thursday, I noticed my page view counter had gone over 250,000. Typapad has said in the past that their counter is not entirely accurate, but I suppose it means something. A page view is not necessarily a single visit; without getting into the details of navigating around the blog, one visitor could have multiple page views. But generally the figure is that your visitors are about 60-65% of your page views.
So maybe I've had about 150,000 visitors, since I started this fiasco in September, 2005, as a way of keeping in touch with people about my chemotherapy. There was no Facebook at the time, so this made sense, and I've kept it up.
Of course now I post all sorts of stuff, and I have never modified the introduction at the top of the blog. I still get plenty of hits from people looking for information about lymphoma and chemotherapy. For example, this posting Mediport taken out today gets lots of visits, and not because (actually in spite of) my bare chest. Shortly after it was posted, I was contacted by a couple of nurse practitioners asking if I minded there referring their patients to the posting, for educational purposes. Of course that's fine - that's one of the reason I started the blog.
Now, I also get visits through google searches, for other stuff. I have gotten - without counting - at least 2,000 hits here The hot Southern Comfort commercial: "I gotta be me" since I posted it on August 26th. And it is a pip! The rugby videos also get a good number of hits.
In case you're wondering, it is very easy to post an article or a video - politics, humor, rugby, etc. Takes no more than five minutes. And since I'm reading or watching the articles/videos anyway, it's nothing to post. The time consuming stuff (which is why I haven't put up as many in the past 18 months or so) is the personal or family stuff where I'm editing pictures or writing my own musings. For example, I wrote this Friday evening, What the Federal Reserve decision on Thursday was all about. and it took me maybe 15 minutes.
This particular posting, is being written Saturday (it's 9:05pm) for Sunday AM publication, and has taken me a little less than about half an hour.
On Monday I'll be posting a picture of myself with two hot women, and it will take under a minute to put it up. Forewarned is forearmed!
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