I attribute my moderate recent increase in page views to following
the advice of two people who post on SaintsWeb under the names Bearsy and eurosaint. Bearsy advised:
Redslo is
good people! I think he should maybe restrict himself to factual matters tho
i.e. doing the research and explaining the facts behind things that are dimly
understood, like the stuff he did on FFP which was v.excellent. The 30 hours he
put in on Football Manager to find out if Jack Cork will sign new contract,
perhaps less so. I would like Redslo to review the Laws of the Game like they
are Legal Contract using his Lawyer skills and advise whether i.e. Fabregas or
Targett should have been prosecuted in the Chelsea match. That is my suggestion
for Redslo blogs! Do things bout Rules & Facts & Lawyer Skills!
Editing out the humor, I took this as advice to not go crazy
spending huge amounts of time on research projects and to focus on the areas of
my expertise.
Eurosaint opined:
I'm sure
that you mean well Redslo but I have to confess that after reading about 10% of
what you have written I lost the will to live
Perhaps if you were to keep your points a bit more concise they would have more of an impact ?
Anyway, happy new year to you !
Perhaps if you were to keep your points a bit more concise they would have more of an impact ?
Anyway, happy new year to you !
I took this as advice to be more concise and to avoid
depriving people of the will to live.
(By the way, eurosaint, if you are still reading you might want to
stop. I think the rest of this post will
be will to live sapping for you.)
I decided to write more timely and focused posts. There were several subjects I wanted to post
on this past summer and fall, but I kept expanding the scope of the research to
where it became unmanageable—my third party ownership piece is the prime
example. I just should have written up
something during our pursuit of Rojo.
Instead, I kept reading and taking notes on more and more stuff until it
felt like I was writing a master’s thesis.
Since I didn’t want to write a master’s thesis on that subject, I
stopped working on it completely. There are three or four other projects that went the same way.
In line with this new approach, I wrote up and immediately
published several recent posts including “Doom and Gloom,” “ European Qualification Rules for Southampton Fans,” “Possible Gaston Ramirez Transfer to Boca Juniors May not be Possible,” and “Southampton Weekly Salaries.” Two of these posts used my legal skills, one
used my willingness to tabulate a moderate number of statistics, and one used
my willingness to crib data from Football Manager—always a popular feature of
my blog.
In any case, all four of these posts have turned out to be
reasonably popular based upon the direct page views which understates the
actual viewership because page views of my main page are not counted in the
total. Here are the most popular posts
for the past month.
Posts
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Pageviews
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Jan 5, 2015 |
176
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Jan 12, 2015 |
86
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Dec 26, 2014 |
59
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Dec 25, 2014 |
46
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Jan 9, 2015 |
39
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Jan 13, 2015 |
39
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Dec 31, 2014, 2
comments |
35
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Aug 1, 2014 |
33
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Dec 22, 2014 |
33
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Dec 31, 2014 |
33
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My all-time popular posts are dominated by posts from my first
few days of blogging when, due to twitter referrals, things went crazy. However, two of the recent posts are on the
top ten list as is my post on how I became a Southampton fan which was not all
that popular when it first was published but has been looked at steadily since
then. It was my most popular directly viewed post from
mid-October through mid-December. This
is the all-time top ten:
Posts
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Entry
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Pageviews
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Aug 1, 2014 |
1322
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Jul 30, 2014, 1
comment |
493
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Aug 4, 2014 |
363
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Aug 5, 2014, 1
comment |
274
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Aug 1, 2014 |
203
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Jan 5, 2015 |
176
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Aug 17, 2014 |
115
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Aug 26, 2014, 2
comments |
105
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Jan 12, 2015 |
86
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Aug 9, 2014, 2
comments |
84
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This does not mean that
I will no longer undertake complicated research projects, but I will try
to find ways to do the research in smaller chunks to generate a shorter, timely
post. I will only go crazy on rare occasions
when the subject seem especially important or interesting (to me). So thank you Bearsy and eurosaint for the good
advice.
If anyone else has any
suggestions or comments, I am happy to hear them. Post them here or on the threads devoted to
my blog on Saints Web or The Ugly Inside.
And I have one question:
whenever I post something I almost always immediately get a hit from
Mountain View, California, which is just over 200 miles from where I live but
only a couple of miles from where I group up.
Do I really have a regular reader there or is that a weird internet
thing that makes my own page view checking to see if everything posted properly
show up as a hit from Mountain View? If
you read my blog in Mountain View, please let me know.
Finally, I am updating the statistics I published in my last
milestone post.
Here is where my page views are coming from:
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Entry
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Pageviews
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United Kingdom
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14267
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United States
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2311
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France
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521
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Australia
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470
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Spain
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188
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Sweden
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188
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Netherlands
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147
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Malaysia
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130
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Canada
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116
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Germany
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91
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Here is the browser and operating system information:
Pageviews by
Browsers
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Pageviews by
Operating Systems
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This was aa lovely blog post
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