Back on the first of February I tried a little experiment to see if I could get more visitors to look at this webpage. I tried a number of things - listing the site on Technorati and del.icio.us got a few people looking at it. Mentioning a few keywords of the moment got some views - in particular the post about ordering a Dell PC without Windows Vista actualy got a view from someone at Dell, according to the records.

But the main thing that got the visitors in was getting this site on stumbleupon, a site that has a firefox extension allowing you to just go to a random site found by other members of the stumbleupon community. In only a few days, the number of readers went to over a thousand.

After that though, the number of views dropped off and is now back at around zero. Which goes to show that you need consistency, and a lot of entertaining content, to keep the readers you get initially. It can be a bit of a drain coming up with new posts, and it is easy to get distracted with other things… such as gettting mythtv set up. But that is a story for another time…