A plea to my readers

Studied both my google and my hosted stats tonight and came to what I think is an important conclusion – more blogging equals more visits. 😀

I won’t know until tomorrow afternoon when my hosted stats update, but it looks like September beat August’s record for number of visitors. Coo, there are more and more of you out there. Do feel free to delurk and say hello – I rarely bite 😉

I’d really like it if you did actually – I’d like to know who you are and how you found me. Did you click through from twitter? Fb? Did you find a post in a linky and take a minute to explore the site? have you read a guest post somewhere and decided to find out more about the author? Have you been here before, will you come again?

It’s an odd thing this blogging lark. Sometimes we do it for ourselves, but part of it must be for an audience or we could just use a notebook. A pretty one, with a padlock, hidden in a box under the bed.

As this isn’t under the bed with the dust dinosaurs, you can safely assume it’s for public consumption. But I do wonder who the public is, so I’d be grateful for the occasional hello. Pull up a chair, introduce yourself, I’ll get the kettle on and rescue you from the spam folder (first time commenters are moderated, it’s because otherwise we’d all be drowning in spam.) Do you have a blog of your own? Tell me about it and I’ll pop over and see you – it’s good to make friends.


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Comments

16 responses to “A plea to my readers”

  1. Set up a google Analytics account for stats. 🙂 It will tell you *oodles* of fun stuff.
    .-= Andrea_R´s last blog ..WP eBooks launch =-.

  2. I rarely comment, but I do still read 🙂
    .-= Julia´s last blog ..Resource of the Day 1 =-.

    1. @Julia thank you – I do still read you too, and spot you on fb from time to time 🙂

  3. @Andrea Got one, mentioned it in the first sentence! (not sure I completely understand it tbh, I prefer my awstats – don’t tell google!)

  4. I can’t say I found your blog, my wife did and she reads it often, as do I, I guess we both found your blog through twitter.
    I enjoy reading it, as does my wife.

    1. @techno-mole glad you enjoy it. Are there types of posts you enjoy more than others? Or does the variety simply amuse?

  5. Hi Jax 🙂 I don’t get a chance to read blogs every day, but when I do read I read yours. Sorry for not commenting more often. I love the way you articulate your thoughts about your children and about home ed and often find myself nodding in agreement.
    .-= Nikki´s last blog ..Blue =-.

  6. I either found you through Twitter, from the Gallery or you commented on my blog. No idea which one sorry!
    I read your blog but only comment when I have something worthwhile to say!
    Can I ask that you work out how to change the setting so that your posts show fully in Google Reader? At the moment it’s on partial feed so only shows the first few lines

    1. @TheMoiderer the partial feed was a conscious choice way back then – the idea was that it prevented ppl reading just in a reader and not visiting the site. Am not sure now whether it backfires, but it’s been like that since I set the feedburner feed up way back when.
      And I can’t remember how we found each other either!

  7. I’m still reading too and am still rubbish at commenting 🙂

  8. I don’t often comment – I read regularly though :-)Depends on where I log on first but I have you on my blogger following list and I also check in from Facebook…x
    .-= lynn´s last blog ..Center parcs =-.

    1. @Carol @Lynn Good to have you both on board, I know there are lots of times I read and just can’t think of anything to say either.

  9. Google Analytics doesn’t work too well with those of us who block it. I just object to letting Google know that much about me and my browsing habits.

    1. @Dave you specifically block google analytics? I’d never considered that.
      I do understand the point of view on google, it’s why I don’t use google chrome.

  10. I read, I found you at CyberMummy!
    .-= TheMadHouse´s last blog ..Frugalicious Food Frugal Delicious =-.

    1. @TheMadHouse you most certainly did 🙂

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