I don’t really know how much traffic I had in February thanks to the sudden and inexplicable death of my Sitemeter counter early on in the month. After a couple days of ruling out every other possibility, I decided it had to be specific to that one account. I bit the bullet and switched everything over to the counter that I had (and thankfully still remembered the logon/password details for) on my old Blogspot site. I know I got about 21,000 hits since that was configured on Feb 11, so let’s say I got 32,000 hits. I got a lot of referrals from my post about Howard Stern getting dropped by Clear Channel while they were picking up Michael Savage, which helped drive that total.
By the way, I never did get an answer from the Sitemeter folks about my account. You do get what you pay for.
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How did you get noticed in the beginning? Just wondering.
Boy, are your advertisers going to be pissed! No, wait . . .
Sean, this post answers your question. It was easier to get noticed in 2002 than it is now, but the overall audience is a lot bigger now, too.
Thanks, Charles. It just get’s a little frustrating putting so much time into it and having no one come and read.