Reid Dickie
Hello and thank you, my beautiful audience,
It was six months ago today ReadReidRead began its blog life and I am thrilled, astounded and humbled to report that my blog is approaching 25,000 hits!! It appears I have succeeded in finding my audience, which was one of my resolutions for 2011. I have had lucky help along the way, namely the flood which continues to develop and which draws hundreds of hits every day. People want to know and see what’s happening in a certain area. The internet is loaded with flood pictures from which I have judiciously selected ones to include on my blog. I have tried to look inside the ‘high water event’ as well as offer the current flood status of various regions. I received my first grateful comment about my flood coverage this week. Thank you for returning to my blog for flood updates.
In addition to the flood, I am getting lots of people checking out other parts of my blog. The most popular pages are Birdland, Sacred Places, Houses, Churches and About. Thank you for wanting to know more about me by clicking on About. Posts that have a life of their own include Weasels Ripped My Flesh, Rooster Town and Obituary Euphemisms.
Has blogging affected my lifestyle? Drastically! Being a retired writer is a bit of an oxymoron because old writers never die, they just backspace once too often. Writing is such a pleasure for me that attempting to retire from something that wasn’t work to begin with is a bit of a trick. I know, poor me. Such a dilemma to have!
Even after six months of this, I still put in at least four to five hours a day working on my blog. I love exploring the guts of it, the background information WordPress supplies about search terms, popularity of posts and pages and specific clicks in a post or page. As I’ve learned more about blogs, I’ve expanded “my little empire” as a friend calls both my blogs (this one and Shoal Lake History), the DickTool Co YouTube channel and my Flickr image collections.
Here’s the First Six Months of ReadReidRead By the Numbers
Number of posts: over 350
Pages: 13
Categories: 64
Tags: over 2650
Comments: about 100
Best day: May 12 with 935 hits at height of first wave of flood
Hits in May: 12,058, average 389 per day
Hits in June: about 5500, average about 500 per day
Most Popular Post: Manitoba Flooding – 890 hits
Most Popular Page: Birdland – 840 hits
These are amazing numbers! Thank you for checking into my mind from time to time. I promise to continue sharing the quirky and soulful events of my inner life along with the external quirky and soulful stuff that floats my way. My summer travels begin soon so there may be a couple of days without a post but know I remain diligent.
oao
Reid