Easy as falling off a blog
Friday, August 28th, 2009 01:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanSome fruit loop has scheduled a meeting starting at 4pm this afternoon. Bugger. I mean Friday afternoon meetings are a poor idea at the best of times, but the arse-end of a Friday afternoon on a bank holiday weekend? That takes a special sort of spoon.
I have been looking at the hits on my LJ over the past few months. Insofar as a couple of thousand hits in total over God-knows how long since I first put the meter on my information page can suggest anything beyond apathy, I see that I have failed to break into the southern hemisphere. How to remedy that? Each year I get a hit or two from Australia and in the past two years I have managed to get the odd visit from New Zealand and South Africa. I have a smattering of visits from elsewhere on the globe, but basically it’s the UK, North-West Europe and North America, primarily the US, rather than Canada. At no point in this journal’s six-and-half-year history have I had as much as a sniff of interest form anywhere in Latin America.
So how do I break into this lucrative market, with its potential of tens of readers?
Should I plant keywords Andes in my writings Brazil in the hope that I may Amazon show up on Google searches? Maybe I should learn Spanish Muy Bien! or Portuguese and litter my pages with translations of my usual spaff? Who knows: not me?
Tell you what, though, a hit from the British Antarctic Survey Team (or anyone else in Antarctica, for that matter) would be great – just to see if the world map can cope with something that far south…
Spread the word; it’s Friday after all. What have you got to do that’s more important?
I have been looking at the hits on my LJ over the past few months. Insofar as a couple of thousand hits in total over God-knows how long since I first put the meter on my information page can suggest anything beyond apathy, I see that I have failed to break into the southern hemisphere. How to remedy that? Each year I get a hit or two from Australia and in the past two years I have managed to get the odd visit from New Zealand and South Africa. I have a smattering of visits from elsewhere on the globe, but basically it’s the UK, North-West Europe and North America, primarily the US, rather than Canada. At no point in this journal’s six-and-half-year history have I had as much as a sniff of interest form anywhere in Latin America.
So how do I break into this lucrative market, with its potential of tens of readers?
Should I plant keywords Andes in my writings Brazil in the hope that I may Amazon show up on Google searches? Maybe I should learn Spanish Muy Bien! or Portuguese and litter my pages with translations of my usual spaff? Who knows: not me?
Tell you what, though, a hit from the British Antarctic Survey Team (or anyone else in Antarctica, for that matter) would be great – just to see if the world map can cope with something that far south…
Spread the word; it’s Friday after all. What have you got to do that’s more important?
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Date: 2009-08-28 02:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-08-28 02:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-08-28 02:43 pm (UTC)But since I don't think they're much use (because of that) I never bothered doing one.
I check the hypotheticals webstats every so often; they're always bemusing.
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Date: 2009-08-28 03:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-08-28 03:19 pm (UTC)Do I need to do sommat to maintain it and how?