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I have to say that when it comes to blogging the main audience is not UK based as some assume (since I am in the UK).
Even at the very start when I use Freeservers, MySpace, Yahoo360, Google Plus and WordPress, the audience tended to be more international. I did try to specifically cater to UK comic fans and comic creators but on the whole the creators were a very negative experience. I pushed and promoted events free of charge but, again, this was taken advantage of.
I decided that rather than try to pull in UK readers I would just post reviews and things that I was interested in and as I have been into comics since the mid 1960s I had a lot of interests. Language did not matter since a comic well done tells its story via images. Chinese, Polish, Czechi, Russian, French, German -blah blah blah -if it was a comic I was in.
I also decided that the odd music video might entertain (or annoy) and although I originally tried to work out was popular (to post more of that) there was no common trend. I gave up since there was an international audience I just kept posting and even now old posts still get read so I just decided to carry on and not question things.
With dyscalculia stats never actually worried me since they are a jumble to my eyes (dyscalculia is basically numerical dyslexia which is why I always triple check figures using a calculator!.
Mind you, I do notice when Blogger knocks the odd couple of million views off CBOs totals every so often (I am watching you Blogger).
I decided to present the all time (current with CBO) views of some of the blogs to show why the UK is not the focus; UK interest in its own comics history is very poor. So enjoy the numbers -it's all Alphabeti-spaghetti to me!
British Golden Age Comics blog all time views 66,940
UK Golden Age Comics blog all time views 23,041
Comic Bits Online all time: as I was putting this together there was the "Blogger renumber" again. Every so often Blogger seems to delete not thousands but millions of views and once they reach a certain number we get slapped back down again -this time to 5.12 million. However, the countries doing most viewing seem to not change.
Black Tower Comics and Books blog has a modest 139,000 views:
The trend is similar with my other blogs. Black Tower Comic Shop News has a total of 16,300 views and...
We'll pretend that we never saw "unknown region" -right? I still worry about thge two regular views we used to get from Antarctica and how those views suddenly stopped one day!
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