How the hell did that happen?
Yesterday was one of my rare days off from my temp assignments. It didn’t take me long to find my way to Del Taco for breakfast with my best bud, Jean Luc. Between oversized, sloppy bites of breakfast quesadilla and potato sticks smothered in ketchup, I heard him ask, “So, have you checked your (IXH) stats recently?”
“No…” Truthfully, I think about this site almost everyday, but am usually too darn lazy to pop in and say hi, let alone check up on my site statistics. I’ll happily take lazy over my usual reasons for neglect and abandonment of IXH: an arthritis flare-up or depression. These days I’m a wee bit anxious about my insecure employment situation — and the lack of funds needed to prop up my extravagant lifestyle of rent, gas and the occasional batch of groceries — but mostly, my life is good. More on that later.
“…is it still at 700 (readers) a month?”
Jean Luc, oh so casually said, “No, it’s double that.”
“What?!” I put down my quesadilla — you know me, I never put down food unless it’s wiggling on it’s own, and even then I’m likely to remove the offending culprit and continue on — as this news required my full attention. “I have 1,400 readers? How the hell did that happen?!”
“No, it’s more than a 1,000, but it will probably be over 1,400 by the end of the month.”
He offered some explanation about my added posts be tallied up by the major search engines so they now give me more hits and yada, yada, yada. Sorry, Jean Luc, but I’m not the least bit interested in whatever voodoo it took to get this little slice of heaven more readers. But I am more than amused, flattered, and downright daunted by these facts:
- 1,100 people this month (as of ten minutes ago) are reading about my silly little divorce.
- 20% of them added IXH to their favorites list.
- A whopping 71.1% of the readers pop in via a direct address or a bookmark.
“You have an audience waiting for you, Flo. Get to posting.”
Dear reader, I can’t promise you anything as I am a gigantic flake with unpredictable health and a penchant for freak-outs, but I’ll see what I can do!
I like you, too,
Flo
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