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November 23, 2005

Under A Bushel

Well it turns out that I wasn't so unpopular after all.

Suddenly my blogging has had one of those Claritin moments. What I thought I saw, had only been vaguely perceived. Whereas I thought that I was very influential but surprisingly unpopular, it turns out that I'm way more popular than I thought. About five or six times. Thanks to a cat names James Joyner, I have discovered that I really should be putting some hit counting code in more than one place on the blog. Ya think? Now I can actually count those hits that go anywhere else but the front page. It really does make sense.

I'll have to wait a few weeks to get a solid idea of what kind of traffic I actually get, but I basically doubled what I thought my avarage daily traffic was before lunch today. So even though this is something of a holiday, it's clear that I do more than 1000 hits a day. It's a sigh of relief, I guess. Now I have to seriously think about what opportunities I've been passing up because I thought my duckling was more arcane and ugly than it actually is. Namely PJ Media. (sigh) Mo' hits, mo' problems.

But it's a good problem to have.

Posted by mbowen at November 23, 2005 07:54 PM

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Looking to Pajamas Media to bolster your self-esteem? God help you!

Hey Michael, I've got a deal for you. Work for PunditDrome Media. Your secret contract is in the email (wink, wink)

Posted by: Scott Ferguson [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 24, 2005 04:16 AM

Hits mean nothing (i mean, it includes downloads of graphics and such). It's about page views -- at least as far as advertisers are concerned. I'd say your first instinct is generally right, that the homepage page views is what counts most, in trying to assess overall popularity. But every now and then there'll be a specific post that gets linked to and pushes up the numbers.

At least this way, by tracking individual posts, you can get a better idea of what types of posts tend to suck in the most traffic.

Anyway, who cares, Cobb. This is space for rant, not rent (uh, right?).

!000 page views/day (total for all pages) will earn you a latte and bagel a day.

Posted by: memer [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 24, 2005 04:27 AM