Just curious. It may not be your masterpiece.......but this blog had the most hits. Was it the catchy title? Was it the exotic, off the beaten path location? Was interest in your blog driven by current events?
Reply to this Interesting, Stuart. Those are well-written blogs you've got too.
Reply to this Still curious. If those blogs with the most hits were not the best in your books, which were? Like I have read many of Stuart's and Jon's blogs (all good), but can you guys readily say which are your "masterpieces" ? It must be frustrating I guess, to have your favorite blog get less hits than those you've written not exactly in the best of times and moods.
Reply to this Ben, I think your latest post
Achtung baby - alone in Angeles (Angeles City, Luzon, Philippines) may soon overtake your top blog, considering over
500 hits in just a weeks time. Your blog about this place and dubbing it as possibly the sex capital of the world may have invited all that interest, and may i say, all those unsavory comments which peppered your blog in no time. ;-) I am not sure, but I did run a thread earlier about my sense that blogs with sexual or sensual undertones do attract a lot of hits. But do not let that take away the fact that you do have very well-written entries which I absolutely love to read.
Reply to this Lily, yes, I thought about the very same thing after I posted my comment here. In fact, the Angeles entry received 450 hits in the first day after publishing, plus numerous critical comments and a few outright offensive ones, the worst of which I have deleted. And I also agree that this has probably very little to do with my journalistic talent (lets be realistic here) but rather as with some people having different motives for reading such an entry. BTW, my corresponding pictures on Flickr also attract a lot of interest, and I am busy blocking people there who keep selecting some of the pictures as their favourites.
Reply to this But do not let that take away the fact that you do have very well-written entries which I absolutely love to read.
Oh, it certainly wasn your best work 😉 But I meant it when I say you do have (other) well-written entries. Many, in fact. Anyways, it does look like you struck a nerve there. If you ask me, I think it is this statement (the last line) that may have offended some Filipinos............
I can only assume that most of the girls working here do so out of pure desperation with few alternatives available to them in this impoverished country. Then again, it must also be a cultural thing
Cheers, Ben! 😊
Reply to this Now my most frequently hit blog has more hits than the one that used to have the most hits.
The most frequently hit one is much newer than the one that had the most hits.
Reply to this I find that the blogs with the most hits are the ones that come up on search engine pages. Any blogs with really boring titles (i.e. that just state the name of the place) get more hits than many others I'd consider better.
Reply to this - How about your
least-viewed blog? Is it your most boring or least well-written, or do you think there are other factors?
J.
Reply to this Is it your most boring or least well-written, or do you think there are other factors?
The ones I hate, at the ones written by ''professional'' bloggers which are written only to get as many Google hits as possible, and to promote links and services. Yuck and insincere!, because they are often written by people who appear to have no feeling for what they are writing about. Surely, they can find something else to do for a living, so we dont get subjected to their SPAM.
Reply to this And, I really dislike the blogs which are only written to complain about/slander a service.
Reply to this How about your least-viewed blog? Is it your most boring or least well-written, or do you think there are other factors?
In my case, my least viewed blog is my least-inspired piece! But also dwelling at the bottom of my list is my blog which I felt was among my better-written blogs. Unfortunately, not too many agreed with me. 😞 I think it has a lot to do with how you title your blogs.
Reply to this Mud Wrestling in Colombia
this has had the most hits - i think because colombia was only starting to get back on teh "Gringo Trail"
We also "quiet published" a number of blogs as they were written retrospectively for a record for ourselves - these have caught up with hits but are nothing like as many as those we publish to our subscribers which number over 200.
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