Our Blog Hit The 200,000th Visitor Mark...
This Morning!
That would be 200,000 visitors to our pop culture / comics books blog!
We want to thank the 200,000th visitor that stopped by at 8:11:39 a.m. PST, who was from Pakistan and viewed our "Kung Fu Fighting Panda?" archived blog post from February 14, 2008. Amazingly there were 4 bloggers within 5 seconds of each other that came in right at the 200,000th visitor mark!
We started this blog back on June 7th 2006 after we viewed X-Men III - The Last Stand! The eBay Blogs had just started, and we decided to become an 'early adopter' of eBay's blogs.
Early on, eBay had a contest for a few weeks promoting the new blogs, and we were surprised to win $100.00 for just blogging!
On July 15th 2006, we added a 'stats counter' and started checking how many visitors, what blog posts were the popular, etc etc.,
January 2007 we started blogging using a template. Unfortunately the eBay techs decided several months later to change the format of the eBay blogs and our earliest templated blog posts are totally distorted now....
At that time I decided to buy a domain name just for our blog, and hosted it on another hosting web site that we control, in case the eBay techs decide to change the blog format again.
Earlier I had started submitting our eBay blog posts to Digg and other blog directories, but decided to only submit our own controlled domain name web site after the eBay techs distorted all of our previous blog posts so we wouldn't be embarassed again...
On May 20th 2007 I blogged that our Blog had reached 7,000 visitors... Not 'hits'... Not 'page views', but 'real' visitors!
Today is July 18th, 2008. In 14 months we have gone from 7,000 visitors to almost reaching 200,000 visitors!
It took our blog 11 1/2 months to reach 7,000 visitors. We have now added 193,000 more visitors in the 14 months since then!
(Additionally the eBay stats show almost 585,000 page views, while our Sitemeter shows less than that, but doesn't count our own personal page views.)
Tina and I want to thank YOU, all of YOU, that have stopped in during the past two years to view our blog posts, and /or to comment also!
We are currently winding down, getting ready to go to the San Diego Comic Con that starts next week with 'Preview Night' on July 23rd. I will be celebrating my birthday on Comic Con's opening day the 24th. I couldn't think of a better place for me to celebrate than right there!
I was just looking at another archived blog post we have, from July 25th 2007 where I mentioned we were shutting down to attend the 2007 Comic Con. At that time we had just hit the 12,000 mark of visitors to our blog. This past year since then has been one busy year in blogging!!
So what do we blog about?
Of course, we blog about comic books and their history, but we also blog about TV Shows, Theatrical Films, Historical Sites that have importance to the above topics, and other Pop Culture Topics!
To the right in the next column, below our photo, are some thumbnails of previous archived blog posts of ours. Additionally there are a few at the bottom of this column... Just Click on those pics to view those archived blog posts!
For those that are new to us.... We have an ongoing Comic Con and pop culture convention here at Make It So Marketing, what with our daily blog posts and listings of items for sale!
Thanks for reading our joint blog post today and please join us again for more!
And again, We THANK ALL OF YOU for helping us attain this memorable 200,000 number of visitors this weekend!
Michael (and Tina)
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