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\"\"<\/a>(This photo has nothing to do with this post. It’s a picture I took of an orchid in Costa Rica!)<\/p>\n

This post is strictly informational and may be of use to bloggers generally.<\/p>\n

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Who reads your blog? What brings them to your site? What are they looking for? Where do they live? How many retuning visitors do you have? \u00a0After blogging for nearly three years, these kinds of statistics continue to fascinate me.<\/p>\n

Early on, we started using sitemeter, a reliable gadget that dutifully collects the kinds of information mentioned above. But there\u2019s some information on sitemeter \u2013 like full ISPs \u2013 that only available if you pay $6.95 a month. Granted, that\u2019s not a whole lot of money for the information you get. And for the price, sitemeter retains info on your last 4,000 hits. \u00a0Several days ago, I ran across something even better than sitemeter \u2013 and it\u2019s free. It\u2019s called Stat Counter<\/a> and here\u2019s a list of its free features<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It goes on your dashboard, is invisible to your visitors, and is easy to use. I wasn\u2019t paying too much attention to it until this morning. I glanced at the beautifully laid out graph \u2013 and nearly gagged on my coffee. Yesterday, the blog received nearly 1,100 hits. I quickly went down the list of categories on StatCounter, trying to find out what\u00a0 was going out. Obviously, the blog had been mentioned somewhere.<\/p>\n

The first thing I discovered was that most of these hits were coming to a particular post<\/a>.\u00a0 It\u2019s one of the classic synchros, and we posted it way back in 2009. I eventually traced the hits to a mention on tumblr<\/a>.<\/p>\n

OK, I was now dutifully impressed that one mention on a blogging platform that I\u2019d heard of had resulted in so many hits.\u00a0 \u00a0So, this evening I spent a few hours playing around with tumblr, trying to figure out how I would set up a blog. I would be interested in hearing from anyone who uses this platform. My sense is that to customize a tumblr blog, you have to use \u201csimple\u201d HTML or custom coding.\u00a0 That\u2019s great, if you understand HTML code, which I don\u2019t, or know how to custom code, which I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

WordPress is complicated enough for me. I must admit there are days when I long for the simplicity of blogger, for its versatility and \u00a0ease of use. No code. That said, \u00a0tumblr had supposedly surpasses WordPress for the number of blogs it has \u2013 20 million and counting. Maybe it\u2019s time to take a course in HTML code!<\/p>\n

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