Thoughts - 101 Countries and Counting
I have been tracking the number of visitors to this site since April 2006. It is fulfilling to know something about my visitors. If you haven't guessed already, I am a very private person, even though I blog. As I enjoy my privacy, the same assumption is given my readers. My satisfaction comes from seeing who has visited and guessing why they checked in on my site. So far, my best guesses on why someone would spend time viewing my site are they are: 1) bored at work 2) planning a trip 3) wishing they were planning a trip 4) island-oholics 5) doing work-related research. 1 through 4 seems like the usual reasons for visiting. On rare occasions, it is number 5. However, I want to sincerely thank all of you for taking the time to pay my site a visit. Every time you visit, you affirm my efforts.
Since I began tracking in April 2006 over 5,000 of my pages have been visited. That's good! Again, it is a solid affirmation that what I do is of interest to people. And these are people that share some of my cartographic interests and appreciate my mapping efforts along with my observations.
Today, I noted that visitors from 101 countries have viewed my blog. Many are repeat visitors. The top 10 countries are:
United States 2,557 Australia 158
Canada 561 Poland 128
United Kingdom 327 Italy 91
Germany 215 Japan 86
France 203 Austria 82
Other countries represented are: Namibia, Malta, Djibouti, Iran, China, Yemen, Kazakhstan, Libya, Mongolia, French Polynesia, Russia, Morocco.
I continually tell friends and students that if you deliver a good, interesting and consistent product and market it assertively people will buy that product. That is what I believe I do with my product, EVS-Islands. Everytime you visit, you buy it by spending your time, a very precious commodity. If I don't get lazy, but constantly work to improve my product, it's presentation and market it assertively people will visit.
My wife continually chants "Show me the money!". I tell her that after more time and after optimizing my product to reach the widest audience possible, I still will not be able to show her the money, but her husband will be a happy man doing what he loves. And truly, isn't that really what we all ultimately wish for?
Mr.Minton, I would be #3 & 4. I like to go on google earth and find some little pinpoint of light and zoom in on it, see if there's people living there. I'll see houses or structures,
which of course doesn't mean that people are living there, since a big wave could wipe them out. But at sometime, people must've lived on
Marutea. How I would love to visit one of these little atolls. One thing that interests me, is how the palm trees so often look like they've been planted, because they are growing in such straight lines!! That is very curious.
Well, keep up the good work and keep having fun.
Teresa Wiley
imawiley@yahoo.com
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