When I bought the name and space for the BrandywineBooks.net, I thought the host’s behind the scenes traffic monitor would be enough for me to keep up with who is reading and browsing the site, but it hasn’t been. It’s hard to get to and difficult to understand. So I added the site meter we used on the blogspot blog. You can see it at the foot of the sidebar. The number, presently 64,188, reflects all the visitors from the old site, but none from the new site until today.
I should probably take that number for what it is and avoid reading encouragement or discouragement into it. No reason to wonder why more people don’t drop by. I’ve given them reasons to look elsewhere with my inconsistent, uninspiring blogging. But is blogging really about readership? If someone posts on a blog no one reads, isn’t it still blogging?
I’m not serious. Don’t worry about me, but feel free to send your cards and gifts all the same.
Brandywine Books has been online since May 2003. We are an Adorable Little Rodent in the blogospheric ecosystem. We rank 28,111 at Technorati. And better than any of that, you are here now. Thank you for stopping by. Now, go read a good book.
If you want to be higher in the rankers, go check out Homespun Bloggers. They can get you higher on the TTLB (though rodent’s pretty good) and especially on Technocrati.
Of course, then you have to worry about not knowing how many people REALLY read your blog…
There’s that Ecosystem ranking! I’ve been missing that. Are we going to have a link on the sidebar?
I note that we’ve gone from being a mammal of some sort (I forget what kind) to an Adorable Rodent. Devolution, I guess.
Aren’t rodents mammals? 😉 Seriously, though, it might be an upgrade. I’ve been confused about that before.
Large Mammals and Marauding Marsupials are both above rodents in the ecosystem, and I seem to remember our blog being a Marsupial at one time. I guess those posts on Lewis’ bad writing are becoming a higher priority.