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.
100,000 Hits
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OH! I guess it's to the right isn't it? I've never even paid much attention to what's over there!!!LOL
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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.
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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.
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