Tag Archives: stats

The day my stats went through the roof

Posted on April 26, 2020 by peNdantry

Imagine my surprise when, after years of a few dozen hits per day at best, on one day I see a spike in Wibble’s stats that looks like this: Clearly, I’d tapped into a popular meme. I knew that The … Continue reading →

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Why Some Blogging Goals Are Bad

Posted on May 2, 2018 by peNdantry

Originally posted on Wading in Wisdom:
Goals are supposed to be this thing that lead us down a productive path. But, sadly this isn’t always the case. In fact, sometimes it would be better if we just didn’t make them…

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How to increase your blog following

Posted on April 4, 2018 by peNdantry

TL;DR ~~ Using the floaty ‘Follow’ button in WordPress only makes posts visible in the WordPress Reader. If you want to ‘follow’ someone and be notified by email when they post, you need to ‘follow by email’, which is different. … Continue reading →

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Using Gravatar to build traffic

Posted on February 27, 2018 by peNdantry

This short wibblette is intended for newcomers to Wordpress; I hope to be able to show you how to set up Gravatar to help you build traffic to your site. Continue reading →

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The shape of things to come

Posted on June 27, 2011 by peNdantry

On Tuesday, I opined upon a busy venue. Now in blog stats I find a spike and then when you look at the shape: it’s either a ringer or — I have been given the finger.

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