Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Shameless Marketing Ploy to Drive 5,000 More Visits
Sitemeter tells me 5,000 people have visited this little blog since I started it up. While I am impressed and somewhat humbled by this fact, I have to admit the numbers are slightly inflated.
First of all, I installed Sitemeter after I had accumulated an estimated 1,026 visits using some other counting method. That was, of course, just a guess. And it was probably a little on the high side.
Second, Sitemeter counts as a visit every time I stop by my own blog. I estimate I have looked at my blog (just to behold its wondrousness) maybe 1,000 times.
Third, lots and lots of people come here looking for answers to the burning questions in life. For instance:
As far as I am concerned, that's way more than enough. Thanks to all of you for taking to stop by on the very rare occasion when I take the time to post. Thanks, too, to Patrick, Matt, Beth, and Dancin' Dave, for posting your thoughts from time to time. And thanks to D-Lee and Brooks for stopping by and sticking around -- it's nice to know you can still make friends from strangers in this age of faceless technology.
So, as a reward for your faithful readership, you get to look at a video of my cute kid (because nobody can resist a video of a cute kid). You'll need Quicktime to view it.
First of all, I installed Sitemeter after I had accumulated an estimated 1,026 visits using some other counting method. That was, of course, just a guess. And it was probably a little on the high side.
Second, Sitemeter counts as a visit every time I stop by my own blog. I estimate I have looked at my blog (just to behold its wondrousness) maybe 1,000 times.
Third, lots and lots of people come here looking for answers to the burning questions in life. For instance:
- Kip from Napoleon Dynamite and the Truckee River Killer from Reno 911!... is that the same guy (short answer: no)? ~2,000 hits
- Does the Bitter Buffalo have a link to that one video I heard about where a polio-infected transvestite named Goddess Bunny tapdances in a tutu with a parasol (nope, but he wrote about it once)? ~500 hits
- Does the Bitter Buffalo have critical information about Mike Lappin, hockey player, or any of his hockey playing brothers (it has an amusing anecdote about Mike, but if you're looking for stats try the hockeyDB)? ~150 hits, mostly recently
- Does the Bitter Buffalo have a link to a video of Big Bird and Kermit stoned (it definitely does not, and I need to have a conversation with Google for bringing you here)? ~150 hits
As far as I am concerned, that's way more than enough. Thanks to all of you for taking to stop by on the very rare occasion when I take the time to post. Thanks, too, to Patrick, Matt, Beth, and Dancin' Dave, for posting your thoughts from time to time. And thanks to D-Lee and Brooks for stopping by and sticking around -- it's nice to know you can still make friends from strangers in this age of faceless technology.
So, as a reward for your faithful readership, you get to look at a video of my cute kid (because nobody can resist a video of a cute kid). You'll need Quicktime to view it.
posted by Bill Purdy, 7:59 AM