tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12673673.post113392936695443836..comments2023-10-22T03:45:04.749-05:00Comments on the Constant Observer: Where Do Your Readers Come From??Tish Grierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15657229618222899908noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12673673.post-1134751276743298172005-12-16T11:41:00.000-05:002005-12-16T11:41:00.000-05:00The number of Google hits I get goes up and down, ...The number of Google hits I get goes up and down, was a lot more when I was posting regularly on politics before Katrina, but has been slim lately as I've been posting on things people seem to be not interested in Googling (or searching for anywhere). Funny to me that out of the thousands of search hits I've ever gotten from engines on obscure or popular information, I think I've only gotten a idyllopushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06499970885405514498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12673673.post-1134376635132519972005-12-12T03:37:00.000-05:002005-12-12T03:37:00.000-05:00I'm not sure I want readers from search engines - ...I'm not sure I want readers from search engines - yet. If I ever do get around to becoming a published writer that all changes. I think I'd want to attract readers and searches would probably help that. Right now I'm just interested in conversation with interesting and somewhat like minded folks. Not that I mean 'homogeneous' but people with similar interests even if they have quite a variance inohdawnohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01995493308490806364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12673673.post-1134360504554057622005-12-11T23:08:00.000-05:002005-12-11T23:08:00.000-05:00thanks for the great comments D & T...alot of the ...thanks for the great comments D & T...alot of the conversations regarding where readers come from rarely take into consideration the social means by which we find other blogs--like thru forums or other social software. The conversations mostly center around the search engines, but, as you note, there are other avenues for getting readers.Tish Grierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15657229618222899908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12673673.post-1134070154549904502005-12-08T14:29:00.000-05:002005-12-08T14:29:00.000-05:00Most of my hits come from the big 3 search engines...Most of my hits come from the big 3 search engines, most of them even looking for topics I've written on. Topix sends me quite a few, and Technorati some.<BR/><BR/>The biggest generator for me, though, has been participating in the Feminist Carnivals. Both times they have brought me a lot of readers in the first few days after the new issues were released, and I was pleasantly surprised to see Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12673673.post-1134018089227778792005-12-08T00:01:00.000-05:002005-12-08T00:01:00.000-05:00My readers come from other members of AbsoluteWrit...My readers come from other members of AbsoluteWrite and a small group that currently gathers on Live Journal but used to all belong to the forum associated with WilWheatondotNet. And an occasional drop in who found me either in comments on another blog or via weird-o google searches. The last group doesn't comment and I don't think they come back either. :-)<BR/><BR/>So for me it was being a ohdawnohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01995493308490806364noreply@blogger.com