Ok, so I somehow managed to miss the fact that my blog is over one year old, so I’ll just wish it happy returns for the year now. It has been a long year – ups, downs, lefts, rights, although the year has had more ups than anything else, so I thought I’d focus on them.
If anything, having a blog this long has made me realise a number of things. The first, is that it serves as a great tool for remembering the little things that tend to get pushed out of your memory, so I think it’s a great way to reminisce. The next are the not-so-obvious-at-first-but-soon-become-obvious-very-quickly, such as the amount of effort it takes to constantly have things to write about and having the time to write them. Finally is how blogs can be used as a great way to promote content/software/or anything for that matter. My most popular post, sadly, but understandably (the search engines love it), is the iTunes 7.7 and 8.0 post. In just over a month of it being posted, it has received over 1,100 hits. For a relatively small blog like mine, that is a good amount of hits (just about an eighth overall).
I thought I’d go over some stats for the year as I like stats, until real maths is applied to them. Then, they suck. So with no mathematical value and without further ado, I present some statistics:
Total Posts: 46 (Really should have a lot more… maybe a New Years resolution in the making there)
Total Hits: 8,763
Busiest Day: Valentines Day :Z (755)
Busiest Month: February 08
Top Post: New Phone
Top 5 posts:
New Phone (1,510)
iTunes 7.7, 8.0 Vista/XP Downloads (1,140)
[Review] Nokia N800 Internet Tablet (507)
Upcoming Games to Pre-order (September to November) (269)
BT Suck… Oh Yes They Do (163)
Top 20 search terms:
nokia n95 – 1,169
n95 – 389
nokia n95 8gb – 240
itunes 7.7 vista – 199
n95 8gb – 141
nokia n 95 – 128
itunes for vista – 68
n 95 – 65
itunes 7.7 rapidshare – 59
http://www.ashclarke.co.uk – 54
itunes 7.7 xp – 50
nokia n800 review – 49
nokia n95e – 49
itunes 7.7 for vista – 44
new phone – 40
ash clarke – 36
n95e – 34
n95 nokia – 26
nokia n95 8 gb – 25
itunes vista – 24
From my stats I can conclude that people like being given links to software, people like being told about cool games to pre-order, and people like reviews or information about technology. Using this, I decided that I am going to start trying to do more reviews (unfortunately, they take the longest, depending on the product) and offer links up to cool software I find. Oh and tell people what games they should buy.
I’ve recently acquired a few games to play – most likely too many! The PC/360* games that you should be looking at this Christmas include: Brothers In Arms: Hells Highway, Call of Duty: World at War, Dead Space, Fable II, Fallout 3, Far Cry II, Fifa 09, Gears of War 1/2, Left4Dead, Spore and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.
*Possibly available on PS3 too!
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