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Sunday, February 11

200th blog entry extravaganza

by Mike on Sun 11 Feb 2007 08:16 PM EST

Zoya and Shura

For better or for worse, we have now posted a total of 200 articles on our greeklish.org blog since we started back on April 18, 2005. Although we use a couple of counter/statistics log packages to track visitor activity, I'm still not terribly clear on how many hits we get per month. Our Domain Direct stats show usually show around several thousand hits to greeklish.org pages per month including visits to the main page, as well as visits other greeklish.org features. Our biggest overall draw to greeklish.org are the pages devoted to Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, including the Zoya's Story page and the text of The Story of Zoya and Shura by Lyubov Timofeyevna Kosmodemyanskaya. A Google search for the term "Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya" currently yields around 536 results and our Zoya's Story page is currently the 3rd overall, behind the English Wikipedia article and an article from Northstar Compass. Our gallery of photos from the Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya Museum is the search 4th result. When Googling the term "Zoya" by itself, 948, 000 results are yielded and Zoya's story is the 9th result overall. Zoya's Story has been linked to from a variety of English and non-English sites, including Wikipedia articles in English, Swedish and Esperanto .

Flash #123

It seems as though we are not alone in the woes we experienced with our Mollie fish last year (remember all that?) as I have noticed a lot of Google search hits in our stats that feature search phrases like "creamsicle mollie sitting at bottom of tank," et cetera. And speaking of the whole fish flap, many of you will undoubtedly be happy to know that our 3 goldfish that we purchased back in July 2006 are still going strong in a comfy 30-gallon tank.

We get a lot of Google hits from searches related to comic books. I never really intended to write regularly on comic books, but I think that I have ended up writing more on that particular topic than any other. A lot of folks find us looking for information on spiders, too. A fair amount of visitors find our site as a result of Google searches on some of the more relatively obscure topics we have discussed in our blog, including Imelda Verrept (currently 6th search result out of 141), Ratamyus (currently 3rd search result out of 159), and Cosmos-954 (currently 29th search result out of 16, 500).

Our web traffic comes mostly from the United States and Greece, but we have also been fortunate to entertain visitors from China, Pakistan, India, Iran and Russia. We're also happy to entertain visitors who find our site through links featured at other great sites like coldbacon.com and Louis Proyect's The Unrepentant Marxist.

We hope that the material we've posted thus far is both entertaining and informative. We're having a great time at our end and we enjoy sharing our thoughts and interests with our regular readers as well as our virtual friends, web-surfing acquaintances and like-minded folks all over the world.