Are you reading this?
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There is one thing that I learned never to underestimate when it comes to this blog, and that is audience.
Oh sure, I would love to have a huge audience, I think I've talked about this before, but I never really understood how big of an audience this blog has accumulated.
As an example, I have a podcast called “This Week in Geek” (small plug) and I use Dreamhost.com to host the site. Great site by the way, use coupon code SNOW if you want to get a discount on signing up. Now, with dreamhost, and like any other web hosting company, you can keep track of statistics on your site. Who's come from where, how many hits there is, etcetera, etcetera. With these stats, I just happened to check the overall stats for the month of February when the podcast first really launched, and guess who was the top referrer? …. Yep this blog.
It was weird seeing that at the top of the list of referrers was my blog!
And, I'm not talking small numbers here. For the entire month of February I had over 600 hits to thisweekingeek.net. 600 hits?! Are you kidding me?!
Wow, I never thought that there is that many people out there who are reading what I type. Now sure I am assuming that it's not 600 individual people who came to TWiG from my blog, and I am expecting several repeat click-throughs. But, still….wow.
Thank you to everyone that reads what I have to say and cares about what I say and do. I originally started my blog as a way to keep my writing skills going, and I started a blog on Vox because Leo told me how great Vox was, and I still think Vox is awesome. I've had my blog for almost a year now here, and I still love this community and this blog, the same as when I started.
So if you're out there and you are reading this….thank you. Let me know what you like about this blog, let me know what you would like to see more of, more stories, more fun stuff, videos, anything I should do less of? I'm asking this because I know how powerful a community can be, so I'm reaching out to the According to Snowball community. let your voices be heard and accounted for!
That is all.
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Steve “Snowball” Saylor
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About The Author
Steve Saylor
Steve Saylor is currently the Web Content Editor at Blackburn Radio in Wingham Ontario for CKNX AM920, 101.7 The ONE and 94.5 The BULL. Steve is a New Media Specialist and has worked in this field since Spring of 2005. He is a self-published author, a techie and a geek. To read more about Steve, click HERE
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