Metablogging: November 2003 Archives

Thank you, RC, for all your help with our new banner and purple template!

Erik gets the gold star!

Welcome to....

Bettnet
Sancta Sanctis is the only blog I know with contact info for a Guardian Angel.
Southern Appeal lays on that Southern charm by numbering two sleepy Yankee mommies among the Belles....
Vociferous Yawpings

Thanks to all these bloggers for the links.

I've also updated our link to Amy's blog, which has moved and is now titled Butterfly blog (apologies for taking so long to do it!)

While we're talking about blogging, allow me to direct you to Mr Jeff Miller's post about feeds and aggregators. (Unlike most of the Jester's posts, you can safely bring food and drink to this post.) Only two short months ago I didn't know what feeds and aggregators were. Now I still can't explain them, but I couldn't live without them.

Basically you can get a reader (I guess this is the aggregator), enter the code for your favorite blogs' feeds, and then open the reader to get a list of your blogs that tells you when they've been updated. It is a great feature, especially for following lots of blogs. I use FeedDemon.

Jeff also links to a tool for adding a feed to your blog if you use Blogger or other blog software that doesn't come with a feed. I share his disappointment with BlogMatrix; I've found those feeds to be very unreliable as well.

So if you don't have a feed or a reader, please consider getting one. You'll love it and so will your readers.

October was our first full month at stblogs.org. We love our new home, and we're so grateful to RC for setting us up, and to all the bloggers who gave us technical hints.

Some statistics:

We saw a big jump in readership in October. Our average number of page views per day went from the 90's to an average of 161 visits a day! (Peak days were October 22 and 23; I suspect that spike reflects interest in the Terri Schiavo case.) Thank you, everyone, for coming by.

Thanks, Davey's mommy; chirp is our number one referrer from St Blog's and our third overall. (Number one is our old address, and number two is a URL from Calabria, Italy(?!) Benvenuto!)

Judging from the search strings (listed in rank order), people seemed preoccupied this month:

terri's fight (right there on the sidebar. Hope we could help.)
saints costumes (these searches came rolling in late; looks like Pansy wasn't the only one caught by surprise)
terri's fight.org (try http://www.terrisfight.org/)
pictures of terri schiavo (go for the pictures, stay for the movies)
wicca barbie
saint costumes
halloween constumes (did we really spell that "constumes" too?)
secret spell barbie
terri schiavo
pumpkin chocolate chip muffins (Hambet loves those muffins)
secret spells barbie
wiccan barbie
theresa schiavo
terri fight
lizzie maguire lyrics (of course)
x-men quiz
charmed barbie
secret spells kayla
terri schiavo broken bones (see for yourself)
barbie wicca