"How many hits does the average blog get per year?" asked Dr. Byers.
(Silence.)
"You gutless wonders," he said. "You guys will never be teachers."
“One hundred?” a student ventured.
“One.”
Just one hit? That seems a bit unfortunate. That either speaks to the sheer number of blogs out there or to the nonsense on some of those blogs.
But if you want to up readership there’s even software that can translate your blog into 13 different languages: German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Dutch, Greek, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese Simplified and Chinese Traditional. If your lucky you might be able to get Norwegian. Thanks, Taranga.Com for developing the Translator Plugin Pro. Now I know who to call when I need my J100 blog translated to Korean.
Then there are sites like Bloglines, Technorati and BlogScope that are entirely dedicated to tracking other blogs. BlogScope, developed as part of a research project at the University of Toronto, currently tracks more than 29.74 million blogs. Imagine the time you could spend just surfing the blogosphere through this single site. (I’ve not only imagined this, I’ve sufficiently stalled my studying for more than an hour- thank you, BlogScope.) And among the blogs the site tracks, there are 487.96 million posts. That makes this one look pretty puny.
But hey, at least I know I have one hit.
So thanks, Dr. Byers, for helping me meet the standard. Maybe one day I’ll rise above the average blogger.
1 comments:
I tend to read everyone's blogs when I have free time because I'm a nerd and really curious. So far mine's the best ;) just kidding.
But here you have a hit and I care what you have to say!
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