Celebration

TrogloPundit celebrates 50,000 hits. Check it out.

Believe me, I'm not saying this to be a jerk in any way. But I actually meant to note passing 13 million hits and 24 million page views recently but forgot. Still, every bench mark is important to most every blogger. Don't let them fool you. The hit to page view ratio number is the one I always watch the most - 1.3 just now, which is actually pretty high. It gives one a sense of actually being read by those who do come by, via Google, or otherwise.

I still remember the day I first discovered blogs over five years ago and thought, hey, I could do that better then this,or that one! ha! Typical. But there is no "better," in blogging, so much as there is "different."

The early days and even years can be long and lonely. I can recall visiting the sitemeter and figuring that once I subtracted out my own visits, things looked pretty sad! And there are still days, or even stretches, when you feel - man, I ain't got it right now. Or, I really screwed that one up. But you still go on.

For me, that single thing - going on to keep going is what makes someone a blogger. Success can be measured in almost as many ways as there are blogs, few of them having to do with one's visit count. I've done TV appearances, radio shows, been linked by Rush, am mentioned by Mark Levin often enough, been linked by MSM pubs, had more Instalanches than I ever thought I would and appear often in Michelle's buzzworthy sidebar - along with being linked by numerous smaller blogs and on Memeorandum everyday. I've made friends and enemies. And I've inspired several people to start their own blogs. That might be the most satisfying accomplishment of all.

But it always just comes back and down to the blog, just you and a blank page. There's something special about that challenge that has never gone away. If it ever did, I guess I'd go away, too.

Fifty-thousand and counting. And, hopefully, so it goes. In my mind, if you always just keep it honest and make it your own you can't really go wrong.

Comments

[WBestPresidentEver]

"And I've inspired several people to start their own blogs."

Yes you did indeed, but I still come back and read here all the time.

You do a good job. Keep up the good work. Blog on !! :O)

[Elmo]

I think I passed twenny thou last year [or maybe it was the year before? (season/snarf/sneeker to taste)].