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Thursday
Sep162010

Thank you! Second most popular South African blog in religion

The Mail & Guardian newspaper runs a service called Amatomu that ranks blogs and websites on various criteria.  One of the metrics is the number of visitors to a blog.  

Among the top blogs in South Africa are friends such as Steve Hayes' Khanya blog (which is a far better blog than mine!), my friend Gus' Church blog (Paarl Methodist Church), Mark Penrith's very popular 'Because He lives', Roger Saner's Future Church blog (also a favourite), and then there's Stephen Murray's blog - perhaps one of the best designed blogs among us, and Thomas Scarborough's "Urban Ministry Live" blog.  

I'm pleased to say that Mark, Steve and Stephen are also members of the Lausanne Blogger Network!

However, your visits have placed my blogs at numbers 2 and number 15 respectively in South Africa.  Thank you for looking in from time to time, moreover, I am grateful that you interact with the content that I post (I realize that some of it is rather eclectic!).  This blog - An uncommon path - actually gets more hits than Dion's Random Ramblings.  However, it is listed 13 places lower on the ranking.  The list can be a little flaky at times (I have seen with a few blogs that they often get stuck at the point where the amatomu.com code loads...  So, I removed the code from this blog for a few weeks.  I have since discovered that it is better to use the non-java version of the tracker code.  That seems to have sorted the problem out!)

I have had both of my blogs in the top 5 a few times, and Dion's Random Ramblings has been at number 1 a few times.  I'm not sure how accurate the statistics are (as I said above), but it is great to be able to give the blog some validation as a source of religious (and particularly Christian) interest in South Africa.

How many visitors do I get per day?  

Well, I normally get around 250-300 visitors a day to each blog.  This blog has gone as high as 1500 visitors a day - depending on the topic of my post and its relationship to a particular event in the news.

If you have any suggestions for improving both the content, and making it easier for you to interact with me and the content, then please leave a comment below or drop me an email.  I would love to hear from you!

I know that I break some cardinal 'blogger rules' by not posting only within a single genre, writing posts that are a little too long, and not posting enough 'link bait'.  But, my blog is a fun and personal space!  It reflects my life and thoughts...

God bless,

Dion

Reader Comments (1)

Hello Dion,

Here's something that puzzles me. Your no. 2 blog is, one might say, inactive. Do you have any idea what is keeping it up there? In my experience, when my blog becomes inactive, interest fairly quickly drops off. Thanks for the mention!

Incidentally, with regard to Lausanne, I was a liaison officer in the early stages, but discovered that there was what one might call widespread animosity towards Lausanne in the local Church. I think some of the issues have since been addressed.

Kind regards,
Thomas.

P.S. You haven't quit those old scooters yet, have you?

September 17, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterThomas

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