The Old Hack

Facts and Figures

As part of an ongoing education and initiation into the world of blogs and blogging, The Old Hack has set up site monitoring statistics with our old friend Google. I understand that many companies monitor facts and figures to determine from where in the world their advertising campaigns yield the most millions of dollars.

As I don’t earn too many dollars, let alone millions of them, it is, for me, a little like playing Monopoly. I spend some time planning and tweaking my game plan and then some more fine-tuning how I am going to ‘market’ it, before finally publishing. I use inverted commas round the word ‘market’ only because I still have a slight problem using that term without thinking of baked beans and cornflakes.

So how can facts and figures influence the Old Hack? Well, there’s encouragement for a start. Having started the project as a bit of an experiment and with no particular audience in mind, I now find that in a matter of just three weeks I have acquired no less than fifty subscribers, to whom I am eternally grateful. Conversely I haven’t received a single taker for my piece about Southend-on-Sea, though curiously most visitors to this page seen to have come from Australia (maybe they are nostalgic emigrants).

The facts are to a large extent what influence my writing and the figures are my Monopoly ‘money’. For any fellow bloggers or merely readers who are as curious as I was as to how the facts and figures add up, I reproduce one day this month.

Just over a hundred visitors spanned sixteen countries (only six of which were English speaking). The majority of visits came from the United States, with the second largest country for visitors being the United Kingdom. Pleasingly and a little surprisingly, the Netherlands and Scandinavian countries featured a healthy third, with a combined total of twelve visits.

Brits and Canadians spent longer on the site than Americans. Is this a cultural thing, or do Americans just have shorter attention spans?

Whatever the answer, I am grateful to your support. I only hope my output can keep pace with your appetite.

Thank You

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Grateful thanks to Patrick Brown for today's image "Its a Small World after all" - see it at picable.com

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