Midknight Review - new and revised / A brief history and a milestone

<<< A preacher for 14 years and a carpenter for 30,  I want this blog to be a testament to the common man. Although I am college educated,  I am not a "suit" or a journalist.  The reason I respect Sarah Palin so much,  is the fact that she walked out of her kitchen to do what she could,  as well.  


Before daylight,  Monday morning,  this blog will have crossed the 420,000 mark since its beginning in 2008 and 300,000 hits since "reconstruction,"  after the blog was shut down by some do-gooder  within the Google system,   at the end of 2009.

Update:  in fact,  I will break through these barriers by 9 pm, tonight  -  just a little over an hour from now.  


9.07 pm:  

Pageviews today

210

Pageviews yesterday

957

Pageviews last month

36,071

Pageviews all time history

300,021

In the scheme of things,  I am small potatoes,  of course,  but I am running just under 400,000 readers a year,  at present.   Just a year ago, this blog was being read 80,000 times a year.  Growth has been excellent.

I have no clue how to increase my "reputation" effectively.  As a result this blog has more hits with the least number of referring blogs (my "reputation")  of any blog I can find on the Internet -- and that is a distinguishing mark of which I am proud. The content of my text is my saving grace.

In December of 2011,  I changed the blog's published appearance,  began using the personal pronoun,  and wrote with an increased hardness without becoming filthy in my language nor unnecessarily unkind in the use of pictorials (picturing blacks as monkeys,  for example,  is something I do not approve of nor have I have ever used such images).  In the first month of that change,  the blog's attendance jumped from 8,600 hits in a 30 day month to over 34,000.  It now runs closing to 36,000 hits per month with 43,000 being a record high.

As relates to "comments,"  I do not tolerate the use of the "f " word or "teabagger" but all other manner of ignorant polemic is tolerated except for references to Sarah Palin.   She has taken enough abuse.  None of that is allowed on this blog  -  and if you do,  I will edit your comments in such a way as to show you expressing your love and appreciation for the woman  --  and I will do so without notation.  Don't like that policy?  Drop dead.

Anyway  -  much thanks to all who have returned to the blog,  time after time.  I have great difficulty in effective proof reading and corrections,  but I believe I have finally broken through on that score.  I have a pronounced case of ADHD.  When it comes to proof reading,  I cannot walk and chew gum.   I have given up doing other things while I am proof reading  -  that has been a great help.  There are times when a complicated 300 word essay can take me two hours to proof, simply because I will not focus on the assignment.

Thanks to several friends who have convinced me that a well written,  mistake free, essay is a key to readership increase.  I am a testament to that fact.