So I am hosting this website on a garbage web host. I always like having data on an external system / host under my control, and only used blogger to power it on a whim.
Since I hosted this site on a crap host it has fairly low bandwidth limits. I host a variety sites under one account for like $10 a month. This past month I had to pay extra because this site ate a ton of bandwidth. I find that sorta odd because some of my other sites do not eat much more and I work on some of them many hours a day.
If you are new to the web, or do not know much about the underlying systems, you not only can look at your bandwidth, but what some of the top referers are.
As a marketer that data is great for some of my other sites. On this site it turns out I have been eating a large part of my bandwidth with the fruity stripes gum picture.
I also found it interesting that about a dozen different blogs and forums sent a bunch of visitors to this site last month. Some of the leading search terms: fatty, zebra gum, weight loss blog, fruit stripes, & low carb.
About 100 people a day come to this site and yet no comments. I guess part of that is probably due to my frequency (or lack of frequency) of posting. I think it is interesting how many people watch reality TV and the like and that few people comment on things which they may unless others set the standard or show an example by commenting. At which point many people comment. Not here. Not now. Though. hehehe
Cool Idea for a journal but no posters? Why dont you show some pickies?? Can we have a graph of your weight loss (it could be annotated and ‘fun’ as opposed to clinical and nasty)
Also you dont allow anonymous comments – this is a real turn off. People online dont always have blogger accounts. Why should I have to generate an account just to leave a comment on your diary, even if it is in support of what you are doing.
You should be able to turn on IP logging and or moderation of anonymous comments if you are worried about abusive comments being posted.
I’ll have to definitely agree with mchicago. There should be sveral things done to make your visitors leaving feedbacks more often. Though, the issue with anonymous posting is already solved… let me check it right now
I’ve been browsing the web, and i found your idea. Since the time you wrote the post, a number of such websites apperaed… i’ll try to found some of them if i could!