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100,000 Hits

March 15th, 2007 at 09:58 pm

Well, its been a little less than a year since I started this blog and today my blog's odometer rolled over to the big 100K. That's amazing to me. I know my readership has gone steadily up each month, sometimes each week. I know this because I am addicted to checking my stats pretty much on a daily basis. How lame is that? Is that better or worse than googling your blog name? 'Cause I've been guilty of that, too, LOL. Though that I've only done 3 or 4 times. That's getting to be more and more as well.

It's a weird feeling, knowing people are reading your thoughts, even when you are the one putting them out there. When I started out I didn't think anyone would be reading. I didn't have a clue about what happens when a blog takes off. Or pretty much what a blog really was, just a vague idea of it being an online journal. I certainly didn't read blogs before then. Now I can't imagine not reading blogs because I have learned so much about so many things, the majority of which are finance related, that have really helped me to get my act together. It's been a heck of a ride.

There are days that I think are so boring that what I wrote can't be remotely interesting and I'll end up with a ton of comments. Or days that an incredible amount of interesting stuff was written about and then no comments. If I hadn't been addicted to reading my stats I'd never know that people are actually reading it. Having those stats have kept me going when I was discouraged and thinking no one was paying attention. People are.

I like that. Anyway, thanks to my readers, you got me to 100,000 hits and that is pretty cool for this little ol' stay at home mom in the boondocks of WA state. Having something to say is pretty common. Having people to listen? Priceless.

12 Responses to “100,000 Hits”

  1. tinapbeana Says:
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    yay LuckyRobin!!! congrats on the stats, and thanks for making me feel less weird for checking my stats Big Grin

  2. LuckyRobin Says:
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    LOL, Thanks. I think there are quite a few of us who are stats concsious (not to be confused with status conscious).

  3. living_in_oz Says:
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    LOL! I don't even know WHERE to check my stats!! I'm really happy for you!

    OH! I guess it's to the right isn't it? I've never even paid much attention to what's over there!!!LOL

  4. Amber Says:
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    Lucky
    I enjoy reading our blogs along with reading others on this site, I am able to speak freely here and that is what I really like.

  5. rduell Says:
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    Big congrats!!! Way to go!!!

  6. Thrifty Ray Says:
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    LR...your posts are always so interesting and often very inspiring...it's no wonder you have a loyal following of your blog!! Don't let that number get you slackin, young lady....some of us read your blog just like the newspaper Wink...keep it coming!

  7. baselle Says:
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    I luv my stats. Now I get nervous when I get fewer than 90-100 readers/day. How pathetic is that? Now I'm trying to tweak titles. Do I get more hits when I have alluring titles or what?

  8. PRICEPLUS Says:
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    Congrats! I love to visit and will continue to do so!Smile

  9. Bookie Says:
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    Congratulations also.

    Smile

  10. LuckyRobin Says:
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    Thanks everyone. You know what's interesting to me is that I read the blogs of every single one of you who commented above. Okay, I read most of the blogs anyway, but still...I don't tend to pick up the newbies unless they start off with a bang, though one or two have been known to hook me with a creative title a few weeks in. There's only a couple that I find unreadable or ones that I will skip because they are less bloggy and more article-like. Okay, I really wanted to say articley, but even I cannot do quite that to the American English language. Me, who's motto is "know the grammar rules, then break them," followed closely by "spellcheck does not equal proofreading", and "is that a word? well, it is now." Yes, I don't quite know how those three opposing forces co-exist in my mind, either. But they do.

    Baselle--Its hard to say on the titles. I've come up with what I think are very creative ones and then some same old boring ones like savings update, mortgage update, 401K update. But mostly my readership is pretty much the same. What's weird is on the days I don't post I either get numbers like 60 or 70 unique visitors and about 300 hits, or else it will spike upwards of 150, which I have to assume is people catching up, because there will be like 600-700 hits that day or something. And I love the little graph thing, especially when it spikes up way high. See, it takes very little to amuse me!

    I do have my favorites of course, there are a few that if they don't post before I go to bed, I get rather cranky about. Silly me.

  11. Broken Arrow Says:
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    Wow, congrats! That's a lot of visitors!

  12. LuckyRobin Says:
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    Thanks, B.A. Hey, Princess Perky and I figured out what you can do with your life in the comments of her RPG rant.

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