Blog On !

Granny and I appreciate every one of our friends/readers/visitors to this blog, but there are times when I would become discouraged about the few comments posted here when compared to the large numbers on other blogs. Only those comments we received kept me going when I felt down. You have no idea how much they mean to me.

Then I installed site meter and I was very surprised at the number of visitors who stopped by. I knew that some visitors did not comment, some were lurkers and some of those did not comment but sent emails, but I had no idea how many there really were. Also when doing various searches, I found Is America Burning turning up in unexpected places. I deduced that we had far more readers and coverage than I imagined.

Now and then we have foreign visitors, some from Arab states, and some unidentified. Some site meter posts state Domain name, IP address, ISP continent, country = unknown, and referring url is blank. Ofcourse I do not understand this. There are numbers who are registered as 0.00 time, indicating they are surfers who click on and click off. Some access the blog through bloglines or through search engines for certain topics, and some access us directly and are on for a few minutes to 17 to 30 minutes and access a number of pages. Even more surprising are the ones who click off after accessing the sidebar entries of cost of war, national debt, and the clustrmap, and most of these are from foreign visitors! I would have thought that such stats were of more interest to Americans.

I often urge other bloggers to blog on, as bloggers in general do a good service. I am heartened and will blog on, also.