Wednesday, July 9, 2008

How far we've come......

I am amazed about who reads my blog.

After having a hissy fit earlier this year about the numbers I now write for myself. (Thanks to those of you who "held my hand" during that whirl wind moment!) I was watching the numbers on my site reader stabilise to around 10 per day, then I had the 4th of July incident where the numbers just disappeared.

Following advice I jumped over to sitemeter without a care in the world. Now I find that I can see where readers are coming from - couldn't do that before! I mean, it mentions the distance from me in kms! Wow!

I also now get to see what pages have fed into my site, Mostly just run of the mill bloglines reader (I have that set up too!) but now I am finding direct links from other pages. I am so excited to find that I am on a blog roll of someone over the other side of the world that I have never met!

I now am reading Susan's site and it would never have been possible if I had not changed my counter! (I love what I have read so far.)

Now many of you would be thinking "ok, so you found out that someone in Europe or America is reading your blog," but this is mind blowing for me.

Just thought I would share my amusement and excitement with you out there - no matter how far you are from me........17,724km.........or 186.......

3 comments:

Northern sun said...

they say the intenet has made the world smaller, but it still takes me just as long to get from here to there.

CelticBuffy said...

Vanessa directed me to sitemeter and I love it. It fun to see people from England, Australia, New Zealand and Canada finding my blog. Not to mention seeing what sites they are finding my blog from.

Vanessa said...

I've discovered some great blogs through my Sitemeter as well. So how far am I coming in from? ;)