Follow this blog or else.

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Gotcha! None of the above apply.
Absolutely nothing will happen if you don’t follow this blog.
See? I’m a nice person.

Not that most of my existing followers are actually reading this blog. I read somewhere that out of every 10 followers you have, only one person is actually reading your blog regularly. Some will never read it again. People will sometimes just check out your blog once, hit “follow” because the button is there, but never visit again. Hey, I know, I’ve been guilty of doing that myself. So if you’ve been doing it and happen to see this post, I forgive you.

Of course the real readership of any blog is from web surfers who aren’t following you and will never follow you. They Google something, find your blog, and read or bookmark the article they’re interested in but never read anything else you ever wrote, and that’s okay.

I get a lot of foodies reading this blog, mostly because of my two candy articles, and those articles have been reposted and shared and still get a lot of hits. But why would a foodie want to follow a blog like this, other than for those two articles? I also get quite a few furries who have read this blog, because I’ve posted a few articles about furries (and a few are actually following it too). But this isn’t a furry blog. Or a food blog. Or an indoor gardening or a humor blog. The moral of this is, never underestimate casual readers. They’re your bread and butter.

So here’s what I need: I need 2 more followers of this blog to make 400 followers (which is really just 40), and only one more email follower to reach that all-important milestone of 500 (which boils down to 50 if only 10% of those are actually reading what I write).

Please help me make this happen?

I beat my Best Ever Day!

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I still can’t figure out exactly what caused the spike in views today (but was due to my blog post from several days ago about malignant narcissism and the supernatural), but I beat my previous Best Ever Day of 541 views (the day Sam Vaknin had that article I wrote about him disseminated all over social media) to 546!

Yay me.

Finally!

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I just reached 1,000 tweets. Woohoo! It took me 2 years. Some people only take a week to reach that many.
About 200 of these are from the 2 1/2 months this blog has existed.

Please follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/orangepeel18 (Lucky Otter)

Almost there!

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I just need 8 more followers to hit 200!

Counting down!

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This is my 98th post.  Only two more and I’ll have 100.    Back on September 10th when I started this blog,  I promised myself I’d write one post a day.  I wasn’t sure I could do it.  But  I’ve outdone myself, since September 10th is only 60 days ago and this is my 98th post.   That motivates me.  I think I might be able to reach my goal by tonight.

OM (Harsh Reality) always likes to help us new bloggers and provides regular showcases for us to link to our blogs on his site.     Today he asked what our Top Ten posts are.   I had never looked to see what they were before, and wasn’t too surprised to see my first Furry article at the top of the list, since that is the only article I’ve written that STILL always appears in my Top Posts list on my homepage.  It also got a huge boost from Twitter.     I think it’s one of my best written articles and the title is awesome.      The #2 spot article, which was a rant back when I was a newbie and wasn’t getting many views or followers, got a big boost from a reblog by OM, which gave my entire blog the push into the cyber-universe it needed.  Never again would I log into my account in the morning to find only crickets and tumbleweeds.

 

Here is my entire Top 10.

2014-08-11 to Today

So today (or the latest, tomorrow) I will reach 100 posts.  I’m also nearing another milestone:  200 followers.     I never thought my blog would be this active in two short months.   I want to take this opportunity to say “thanks” to all you awesome people who are following and reading my blog.