Tuesday, April 28, 2009
The New Brothel Turns One
To celebrate our one year anniversary, we're having a party.
If you did not get an email about the party, we're also celebrating our anniversary by posting a poem containing the statistics about the first year of The Brothel. Since you're already at home, or alone at a coffee shop, you might as well read on. It's kinda amusing. -KV
p.s. The party rocked.
The New Brothel Turns One
Klaus Varley
The (New) Literary Brothel was launched in April
of 2008.
Since then, we've had 7,431 Unique Visitors
who visited for an average of one minute
and eight seconds.
Which is enough time to read an article
Or two
If you're fast
Which is probably why the average number
of page views for the year
was 1.47.
Obviously, some people read two, or even three articles.
And others only read one.
Quickly.
And then move on
to Peppermint Creek
or Script Doctor Eric
0r other sites.
How did people find The Brothel?
Some came by way of keywords
Others, by Peppermint Creek
(Thus, we plugged the site
twice in this post.)
But most came through keywords
Such as "Bukowski Quotes"
and "Charles Bukowski Quotes"
both of which brought 467 people to The Brothel
about one a day, or something
who knows.
What I do know is that this next year
is going to be great
As long as we keep posting about Bukowski
And that asshole
Michael Phelps.
Just kidding.
He's not an asshole.
But this one post where we said he was
and it became
our most popular piece
of the year.
Booya.
-KV
p.s. I know
that's no way
to end a post
but hell,
poetry is hard
and if you don't think so
write a poem
and send it to us.
We'll post it.
Then,
all you have to do
is leave a public computer
on the screen with your poem
and watch how fast
the next person closes that window.
Booya.
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2 comments:
You made me curious, and I checked and found FPC has had only 1,405 unique visitors in the past year. But I say it's the quality, not the quantity. :) Thanks for the shout-out. Hope it helps.
I wonder what the numbers would have looked like for the pre-blog-era original TLB. We'll tell our grandchildren: "Back then, you couldn't even TRACK visitors! You had to ask your friends, "Man, have you visited my site on the World Wide Web [or "'Net"] recently?"
Actually the number are about the same as the best years of the old Literary Brothel.
If you want more hits, try putting up more quotes, and titling your post "Quote from such and such" with "Such and Such" being names of really famous people who people like to look up quote from. Like Paris Hilton or somebody.
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