31 December, 2021
29 December, 2021
21 December, 2021
Worried
I was worried that this Blog was going to get a lot of hits but glad to say that the view hits have dropped down to the usual 5 or so.
18 December, 2021
Looking at Stats
I was looking at the stats for this blog and what countries had accessed this Blog.
Number 1 was USA which I suppose is not a surprise as there are over 300 million people in the USA (I think, no I have not checked!) so there is always a good chance that someone in the USA could hit this Blog by mistake.
Second country was the real surprise for me in that it was France!
Well the blog is in a very poor English and I suspect that what I tend to write about really is no interest to the average French person, on top of that I have no idea how many people there are in France but it must be more than in the UK,
I am thinking that they hit the site by mistake......
How to Blog Better
Apparently the list below are things that you should do to make your blog great and get lots of readers. so I thought it would be a great idea to list them and to say what I do or don't do.
Find a niche
This I think I have done, not very well but I have done it.
Write about what you love
Write about something you love I have done this, trouble appears to be that others don't like much what I tend to write about, go figure....
Offer value
Not got a clue what this means, so I have not done this.
Focus on marketing
I dont do this, which will be the main reason why I don't get any views.
Encourage interaction
This is set up, but as no one reads the Blog it has not happened.
Make commenting easy
As above I think this is set up and when I do get a comment I do answer it.
Don't worry about negativity
Occasionally you may get the odd negative comment on your blog I have not had this and if it did happen I would not worry about it.
Don't get stage fright and believe in yourself
Gosh Blogs can get that many views, who knew?
Images, images and more images
People love images. I have tried this but its not something I have tried really hard to do, so perhaps its time to try this again, especially as storage is not an issue.
Provide easy reading
I think I do this, as most of my Blog posts tend to be very simple and short.
Give your posts punchy titles
I think I do this, not sure if they are click bait standard.
Keep it regular
This one I fail at badly in that it can be weeks between postes, perhaps something to try and improve on and see if it makes no difference.
Avoid clutter
I do this my site is very simple.
Get social
I don't do this one very well.
Keep an eye on analytics
You know I do look at the stats I am waiting for the day I can proudly say I have had 10 views of one of my posts.
Allow easy following
I don't know in Blogger how to do this.
Get personal
This is something that I have not done.
Spell checking and proof-reading
This is something that I have done mainly because I cant spell.
It's a very long list and as you can see most of the items I don't do. So I shall try in the new year which as I write this is going to be 2022 and see if it make any change to the Blog.
12 December, 2021
6 Views
OMG
this site last week dec 2021 got 6 whole views, I know... its a lot
I don't know how Google was able to handle all those visits......
11 December, 2021
07 December, 2021
New Track
So later tonight 7/12/2021 I will release a new track and post it on youtube, so it will appear here also.
Enjoy
Blog Stats
For some reason that I cant fathom I decided to look at the stats for this Blog, which as you know is a waste of time as noone looks at that Blog.
One of the recent Blog posts got 6 views which surely must be some sort of record for this blog.
One other stat that I saw was that the send most popular country to visit my Blog is Portugal!!!
I don't understand why this is as the Blog to my knowledge has until now had any mention of Portugal, and this Blog is in English not Portuguese.
So why is it so popular, popular just being a turn of phase as this Blog is not popular.
I don't know the answer.
Anyway if you are from Portugal and you find yourself reading this Blog Welcome.
05 December, 2021
Album Deep
Just a note to me that I have finished the Album Deep and that I have somehow also manged to post all the tracks from the album on to YouTube.
If I am lucky maybe they will get a pay by one person or two....
I don't care if there are no plays or lots of plays as Youtube is a great place to hold my music so that I can listen to it wherever I am in the world and on any device that I happen to have with me at the time.
I also happen to like listening to my own music!
Does that make me weird or what?
You never hear of other artists confirming that they like to listen to their own music do you?
Why is that?
Is making music just a job?
I dont know the answer to these questions but it would be great to find out some answers.
Music
Why is it the all humans like music?
What is it about music that appeals to humans?
These are two questions that have been going around in my head over the last day or two
Parkrun
Don't know if I written it here before, but I now do a parkrun every Saturday that there is one running, have been doing this now since 2017, so maybe I have said something about it before?
Anyway I run each saturday 5K in the fastest time that I can, I am pleased to say that I have got a bit faster as time has gone by.
The big question is
Is it fun?
The answer is yes
The run does me good which is good it gets me out of the house, and somehow I have even manged to make some friends which is something I still find amazing as I am not an outwards going person, so to make friends is great, what is even more amazing is that most of my friends are women who I have found hard to talk to.... go figure
Perhaps because its a non threating place and time I don't feel unsafe and that I don't have to make small talk as most of the things we talk about most of the time are about running but often as not it does go into other things which so far I have not found uncomfortable in talking about.
At the time of writing this Blog I have managed to get my time to 24.22 for 5K I would love to get under 24 perhaps with some training this is something I will be able to do
Who knows?
Anyway onwards and upwards
04 December, 2021
Blog post
Looking at the Blog dashboard for this very underused blog site I noticed that somehow one of my posts was looked by 10 people, bots ect
How is that possible?
I am sure that as I don't post very often on this Blog that the bots and any humans out there wrote this Blog off years ago as a dead Blog not worth following.
I suppose by posting this Blog entry they will think that the Blog is alive again!
Who knows? maybe it might get 11 views......!!!!
Learning
Do you find it easy to learn new stuff from books?
I find that I have to break the learning down into 15 minute chunks, otherwise I find that I loose concentration and start to loose what I am reading. This must also be something that must get harder if you have not done a lot of book learning for some time.
I wonder if the brain needs to get itself back up to speed in doing book learning, so I suppose that if you are doing book learning often its easier, not Shure if age has anything to do with it either, just an idle thought.
Now test are I thin another thing that also needs practice, that I am sure of, one so you can pull the information out of your head and the second thing is getting control of your nerves while doing the test.
I have a test soon where you have to answer 60 multiple questions in 90 minutes with the added joy that some of the questions have more than one answer needed!
Or the questions ask for the correct no answer!
Real Ale
So a note to me.
Today I am drink a ale called "Old Speckled Hen" its 5% and a nice easy drink to have while blogging or just listening to music.
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