January 2009
9 Countries have visited the blog - despite a substantial bounce rate from many of these countries but I'm still rather proud! UK/USA/Greece the main ones that figure here!
82 Unique Visitors as well - the main blogs that got hits were
Unholy Urine - a critique of a Liberal Conspiracy blog
Bring Home the Revolution - relating the Obama win to UK Republicanism (referred to Republic's website)
Buddhism: A Spiritual Philosophy? - a controversial blog among some, now posted on Liberal Conspiracy. Even they think I want you to convert to Buddhism - It's not what I am saying at all!...
Goals I stated at the end of December was to campaign and expand my readership - this seems to be having an effect with returning visitors according to the statistics, and also the biggest blog hits were ones that get a plug on external websites.
It's become apparent, and suggested by some of my readers that my blog requires a kind of direction, a focus - certainly something to entice readers to come back: Recurring themes that I base my blog on. I'm sure at some point I may well decide whether I plan to have certain blogs written on certain days to give it a sense of regularity for recurring readers of a certain theme. Football, Ethical/Moral/Religious issues and Politics seem to be areas where I focus most - Other than the beer blogs, of course. With that, I have updated my blogs and all will fit into any of the following themes - subject to change of course:
*General* - For anything nonsensical, or related to the website, perhaps general, weird stories I might tell about my life, University, Technology or anything else will be posted here too. .
*Politics* - Anything that falls within the realms of politics - be it domestic, foreign affairs, etc.
*Philosophy* - Anything philosophical - civil liberties, privacy, freedom, equality, etc. Religion as well will also fall under this topic for the religious ones amongst you.
*Soccer* - Anything to do with soccer (or football as it's called here), whether I go to matches or post my views, they will appear here. I'm calling this section "Soccer" because its universally understood to be Association Football, not Aussie Rules, or American Football or Rugby Football.
*Real Ale* - Any Beers I rate on my trips! It could well be just posted in General but I think it merits its own section for the real ale enthusiasts among us!
The tagging system of keywords I use may well take on a new dimension to show which blog theme I base them in, so I can still keep everything on the one page. I'm hoping this way of sectioning my blogs while keeping the indexing of keywords and labels will help people find all they could need - a section of blogs on a topic, or they may wish to go by individual labels through the labels page.
With that, I would like to thank you all for reading over the past two months. LucasWeatherby.com is growing, and it wouldn't be possible without the feedback it generates.
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