Sitemeter, the service that tracks The Betty Blog's readership, tells me the blog has had 1,100 visitors since it began using the service in March. It also says there have been just over 5,350 page views in that time. Unfortunately, the free version of Sitemeter (the one used here for now) does not tell how many views were received by individual pages. Similarly, google Adsense gives the total number of page impressions since it was begun in January (7,100), but not how much any one page received. Any information on that has to be gleaned elsewhere.
TheBestLinks, another free service TBB uses, allows readers to subscribe and be notified whenever the blog is updated. This is not a service I recommend. I think one gets the same service by becoming a blog Follower using Google Friend Connect; and I would encourage readers to use the latter instead. As well, I have no direct knowledge of BestLinks, and do not know what (if any) other uses they have for the email addresses they collect. Still I advertise TheBestLinks service because, in return, it gives limited data on individual page views for TBB. Not complete information; only the number of views for "Last Day," "Last Week," and "Last Month." But partial information is better than none.
Today I was rereading the BestLinks report and thinking it a pity that the March data is no longer available. Then it struck me that the current "Last Month" data will also become unavailable in just a few days' time. Accordingly, I decided to archive it. Not without some reservations -- it is trivia I doubt that many readers will want to see -- but it does interest me; and I had to ask myself: What is the point of maintaining my own blog if I can't post what I want on it? ...
Update: I've since added links to the poems and omitted the non-poems from the list, to make this consistent with the "Penny's Top 20" format. But I've left the numbers on here, as (this being the best month the blog has ever had), I thought they looked pretty impressive.
The non-poem posts or pages I omitted were: Home page, 942; "Poetry and verse archive" page, 476; "Submit your poem here" page, 34; "Buying Betty" page, 27)
1. Ganesha Girl on Rankin, Will Dockery 92
2. Large Red Man Reading, Wallace Stevens 66
3. A Meadow in Spring, Tom Bishop 58
4. baguette, David Rutkowski 55
5. Mars & Avril, George Dance 44
6. 4 poems, Tom Hendricks 40
7. You Are My Thorn, Kasia Lachowska 40
8. March, George Dance 40
9. White Sands Meet the Blue/Green Sea, Jeanne Ames 35
10. Jumbo Park, Stuart Leichter 34
11. portrait, Shaun Hull 33
12. Threat, R.K. Singh 33
13. The Weary Man, Crystal Matteau 29
14. concrete, ray heinrich 28
15. Plow Sharing 28
16. The Smoker, nounofme 27
17. Maui '70, Matt E. 26
18. Nebula, Desi DiNardo 26
19. Prison, Dave Holloway 24
20. Penny, George Dance 24
21. Who Was Here First?, David George 24
22. Principia Poetica, Obsidian Eagle 22
23. Sticky Sweaty, rickthecockroach 22
24. Hero, Maureen Dance 21
25. The Whitening 21
26. Sonny Rollins 19
27. In the Garden, George Dance 19
28. Fuji-san, George Dance 18
29. News, AE Reiff 16
30. Haiku and triolet, R.S. Mallari 15
Source: The Best Links. Web. May 31, 2010.
http://www.thebestlinks.com/diff/index/13294319
TheBestLinks, another free service TBB uses, allows readers to subscribe and be notified whenever the blog is updated. This is not a service I recommend. I think one gets the same service by becoming a blog Follower using Google Friend Connect; and I would encourage readers to use the latter instead. As well, I have no direct knowledge of BestLinks, and do not know what (if any) other uses they have for the email addresses they collect. Still I advertise TheBestLinks service because, in return, it gives limited data on individual page views for TBB. Not complete information; only the number of views for "Last Day," "Last Week," and "Last Month." But partial information is better than none.
Today I was rereading the BestLinks report and thinking it a pity that the March data is no longer available. Then it struck me that the current "Last Month" data will also become unavailable in just a few days' time. Accordingly, I decided to archive it. Not without some reservations -- it is trivia I doubt that many readers will want to see -- but it does interest me; and I had to ask myself: What is the point of maintaining my own blog if I can't post what I want on it? ...
Update: I've since added links to the poems and omitted the non-poems from the list, to make this consistent with the "Penny's Top 20" format. But I've left the numbers on here, as (this being the best month the blog has ever had), I thought they looked pretty impressive.
The non-poem posts or pages I omitted were: Home page, 942; "Poetry and verse archive" page, 476; "Submit your poem here" page, 34; "Buying Betty" page, 27)
1. Ganesha Girl on Rankin, Will Dockery 92
2. Large Red Man Reading, Wallace Stevens 66
3. A Meadow in Spring, Tom Bishop 58
4. baguette, David Rutkowski 55
5. Mars & Avril, George Dance 44
6. 4 poems, Tom Hendricks 40
7. You Are My Thorn, Kasia Lachowska 40
8. March, George Dance 40
9. White Sands Meet the Blue/Green Sea, Jeanne Ames 35
10. Jumbo Park, Stuart Leichter 34
11. portrait, Shaun Hull 33
12. Threat, R.K. Singh 33
13. The Weary Man, Crystal Matteau 29
14. concrete, ray heinrich 28
15. Plow Sharing 28
16. The Smoker, nounofme 27
17. Maui '70, Matt E. 26
18. Nebula, Desi DiNardo 26
19. Prison, Dave Holloway 24
20. Penny, George Dance 24
21. Who Was Here First?, David George 24
22. Principia Poetica, Obsidian Eagle 22
23. Sticky Sweaty, rickthecockroach 22
24. Hero, Maureen Dance 21
25. The Whitening 21
26. Sonny Rollins 19
27. In the Garden, George Dance 19
28. Fuji-san, George Dance 18
29. News, AE Reiff 16
30. Haiku and triolet, R.S. Mallari 15
Source: The Best Links. Web. May 31, 2010.
http://www.thebestlinks.com/diff/index/13294319
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