10,000 users to Beer and Sport!

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It’s been a superb start to the new year as Google have finally gotten off their árses and given me a PageRank, and búgger me I’ve gone straight to PR4! This has done huge things for my organic search traffic since I now actually show up in google, not surprisingly 7% of the traffic I’ve received in the last 18 months of blogging has come this week! Today I broke the 10,000 unique visits mark which has been a target for some time.

I’ve just added a bunch of new things to the blog, such as a page that tracks live visitors, the ability for commenters to receive an email when a reply is posted to their comment, and a Gallery which contains all the images I’ve used since switching to wordpress.

I was curious as to which terms people are searching to end up here, funnily enough 13 people have found their way here looking for “cameron white cry”, the same number who have come in search of “jessica bratich”.

So, cheers to all my readers for popping around. If you’d like to receive Beer and Sport in your email then use the subscribe option on the right. And please, leave some comments!

11 thoughts on “10,000 users to Beer and Sport!”

  1. Wow,
    straight in at number four is …
    it is good SEO and wordpress give the best opportunities to do it.

    i do not wish to take anything away from your efforts,
    but a fraction of it I believe is also because of our webring. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_ring (you will also find us mentioned on that page) We are 18 sites on the ring now and each site on joining automatically becomes a reciprocal link to one another: considered by SEs as a more ‘natural’ form of reciprocal links – oh, we also we have our own SEOed RSS aggregator http://equator.siterings.net

    I lost a rank, I have neglected my site :(

  4. G’Day chinaman,
    Wordpress is holding comments that contain 2 or more links suspecting them to be spammers – need to find out how to turn that off though..

    You’re right about the webring, that and all the bloggers out there who’ve been kind enough to recipricate links has obviously worked thus far. Now google will probably change their algorithm and I’ll be back to 0..

  5. damn,
    I use wordpress myself and I forgot the workings of the spam filter
    and I did spam a bit here, didn’t I? :-D

    I do not take away anything from what you have achieved with your blog.

    You are spot on about Google – its almost a google hegemony through their algorithm.

  9. How do I find this stuff out? Though, not sure I want to know.
    There’s a few ways, if you’ve got the google toolbar it tells you each page as you visit it.

    Otherwise there’s this site which checks it for you and if you want you can stick their icon up – it’s on the right here in the ‘Stats and Stuff’ widget here.

    Btw Miss Field is at Page Rank 5 – that’s about the highest I’ve seen for a cricket blog, putting you up there with Cricket with balls, King Cricket and Cricket-Blog. Which explains the large number of comments requesting link swaps ;)