“…a little help from my friends…”

Sgt. Pepper\'s Lonely Hearts Club Band

Sgt. Pepper\’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

Hey all you Sgt. Pepper folks out there… help_fr_friends_excerpt.mp3 With a Little Help from My Friends

( J. Lennon, P. McCartney ) What would you think if I sang out of tune,
Would you stand up and walk out on me?
Lend me your ears and I’ll sing you a song
And I’ll try not to sing out of key,

Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends,
Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends,
Mm, I’m gonna try with a little help from my friends.

Just a lil inconsequential plea… A year ago, around the end of March, I finally (after six months’ blogging at Blogger) clued in on installing a stats engine and began using Statcounter to track visitors and pageloads, etc. Later (rather much later, as it turns out) I stumbled onto TTLB and installed Sitemeter as well. I’ve managed to roll both those stats engines over to count things here, as well, adding the stats to my former blog’s, and Statcounter has me nearing the lowly figure of 50,000 “unique” visitors. Gimme a lil hand here and nudge a few folks this way so I go over that mark before a whole year has elapsed with Statcounter, wouldya? I’ll still have no idea how many folks dropped by between October 2004 and March 2005, but it’d be one-a those milestones, ya know. And even if my traffic stays relatively low (just a lil over 1,000/week averaged out over the year, regardless of what it says at the place I “froze” Sitemeter :-)), I’ll at least be able to say I suckered 50,000 visits from somewhere. And yeh, I know I have y’all to thank for my relatively high rankings at Technoratti and TTLB in spite of my also relatively low traffic levels: lotsa linkage over the last year or so. Thanks! Yeh, yeh, I know: that will NOT mean 50,000 actually different people, cos cookies clear, folks visit from different computers, etc., but it’s as close to getting a handle on it as I’m going to get with a tightwad’s stats engines. *heh* So, how about it? For the next month, I’ll be sure and plug anyone whose site refers more than 3 readers this way, ‘K? (If I miss you and your site stats record some referrals to me, let me know.)

Blatant begging and whining sent forth at Conservative Cat, Basil\’s Blog, Stop the ACLU and Don Surber (even though this isn\’t a “best post” nominee… just bare naked begging posted at a blog with more than 3X my traffic. heh)

9 Replies to ““…a little help from my friends…””

  1. Ambitious quest, my friend. Once I tried to bribe Rick Moran for a paltry few of his hits. He said buzz off and if I tried anything funny, he’d sick Jack Bauer on my sory ass. I gave up.

    I guess your route of unabashed begging is probably most noble. Will see what I can do. 😉

  2. Indeed. A blatant blegger is just a begger with broadband.

    That’s me.

    Oh, and I do manage to po’ mouth my stats a wee tad. In recent weeks (until yesterday, d’oh!), unique visitors have been nearly double what I cite above, but who’s counting?

    *LOL*

  3. Yeh, saw that. Nearly 900 hits (about 200 unique) so far today… but lotsa them are web crawlers. I have Statcounter set to filter those, so I try (as best I can) to count people.

    Still, that’s just at this location of TWC. I’ve gotten about as many hits (just checked) at the old twc site today (by people) as I have here. Gonna take a while to train folks, it seems.

    I do like all the reporting that’s built into this version/build of WP. MUCH different to the freebie account at WP.com. (Speaking of which, I guess I need to close that trial blog down, eh?)

    I have plans to make the blogs I have left at Blogger

    a.) more appealing
    b.) feeders for this blog
    c.) maybe even revenue producers in a small way.

    We’ll see where this puppy goes, eh?

    Thanks again, Lady Diane, for all your help!

  4. YW 🙂 That shortstats is a plugin- not part of the regular WP (yet) they should add it. I’ll make you an animated gif to stick on the other site when I get a few. LOL that might help.

  5. I changed my template today so I could get the right URL now. I’ll have you know, I NEVER do blog maintenance. But for you… I did! 🙂

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