Ravenwood - 10/19/02 08:33 PM
Amish Tech Support has turned over 100,000 hits. While some people are bending over forward to congratulate Laurence, our staff writers are saying "big deal." We can make our hit counter say 100,000 or even 1,000,000 if we want to.
100,000 hits sounds impressive until you hear about this Pokemon site that hit 300,000. And here is a Statistical Computing site that has over 1,000,000 hits. Who the hell cares about statistical computing?!
Here is an X-Files fan site that has over 700,000 hits. Christ, the X-Files TV show didn't even have that many VIEWERS, how did a fan site ever get that many hits? Even this non-English baby names site has over 230,000 hits, so what is so special about 100,000?
Well, we will concede that 100,000 is a bit impressive for a non-porn site. And while Laurence doesn't use blogspot, he may just have set an endurance record for Blogger. We also noticed that his weblog turned 100,000 only after he took his picture off the front page.
Ok, perhaps some of our staff writers are just a tad bit envious. Maybe they would rather be on the A-list of blogs, with an inbox filled with love and praise instead of the usual hate mail and Nigerian email scams. Still, I am quite happy with the little niche I've carved out in the blogosphere. Besides, I don't want my blog taking on a life of its own, demanding "Feed me, Seymour!"
I like you as you are. If you go hit hungry like, say..........Acidman, then I'm through with you. I'll have to leave you as I did him and wander about aimlessly until I find my next victim friend
Posted by: Da Goddess at October 19, 2002 11:01 PMI've said before that I don't view hits as a validation of my existance. If I did, I prolly would have slipped into a deep depression already.
Posted by: Ravenwood at October 20, 2002 12:31 PMTwo-thirds of my traffic is random search-engine or directory stuff; I have learned to be less than impressed with the raw numbers.
Posted by: CGHill at October 20, 2002 1:10 PMI'm actually happy to have REPEAT visitors....the ones who come back to see if I've updated...the ones who come to read me (almost) daily...and the ones who comment - like, you! That's what makes it fun.
Posted by: Da Goddess at October 21, 2002 5:07 AMI have a webpage on my website that is the first to come up whenever anybody enters "POLITICAL WAVS" in most search engines. It has several wavs that I harvested from other websites, some of which are pretty dated. I haven't updated it in over a year.
I think it gets more hits than my web log.
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