I’ve been puttering along with this blog for months now. I don’t read many other blogs and don’t post very often here. Yesterday I fixed a bug in my comment box code which prevented entering text in IE. Later that day I got over a dozen comments. Elated, I commented back, eager to re-kindle blog relationships. Then I happened to check my traffic, and WOW, found I went from 300 to 3000 hits in one day. Fixing a comment box couldn’t have done that!! I traced the cause to two simultaneous and lucky links by others. One is from a site called BloggerFodder, a simply delicious array of links to hot posts for other bloggers or readers to peruse and use, if desired. The bulk of traffic, however, came from StumbleUpon, where my recent post was added to their spirituality page. I am now fans of both, and I hope you will show MY appreciation for them by visiting them!
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Those are from Bradisms. Brad regularly expounds on various subjects ranging from politics to trust to caring to love, all with an inimitable style which can only be described as “pithy”, meaning tersely cogent. He also has a webpage featuring a collection of his best work, also worth visiting. Brad recently commented on my post Truth and Being, where I attempt to summarize large patterns in life, and which I almost deleted because of its intractable pithiness. But Brad seemed to understand my obscure logic. Then I found this post, “Life is…” on his website, and realized I think a lot like him. Yet he allows himself much more freedom in the realm of pithiness than I! Thanks Brad, for showing us how playfully rich truth can be.
(0)David Depape has a blog he cleverly calls “God is Love“. I’m sure he intends those words’ various echoes of meaning, from completely ironic to absolutely and literally true.
His voice is as subtle and complex as the title. He is neither religious nor atheist. The hypocrisies of organized religion get no mercy from him, but nor do rabid atheists. Somehow he finds inspiration in the ambiguous truth of neither/nor.
Take his post, The Religion of Science.
Religion is a form of stagnant science. Christianity is based on science. The priests were the scholars and scientists or their day. They observed the world and came up with a theory of existence based upon what they could observe. They didn’t know about atoms, cells and the quantum level. They came up with the best theory they could with what little they knew. Religion is science that got stuck on proving old theories. Now atheism is doing the same. Atheism is stuck on proving a point and it’s clinging to theories that are becoming antiquated in the face of new discoveries.
Instead of admitting what we know and admitting what we don’t know and moving forward from there.
I think you’ll find his views as refreshing as I did.
(5)I enjoy finding blogs (sort of) similar to mine. It’s taken me awhile to find my niche; a peculiar blend of personal experience, spiritual advice, philosophical explorations, poetry, gardening, food and general inspiration. Yesterday someone named Titus-Armand commented on my site, so I checked out his blog, Project Armannd. I was pleasantly surprised to fine a quality blog, one which isn’t prepackaged to a particular audience as so many are these days. He explores a variety of subjects toward living a better life; “about today’s society, issues of today’s world, tips on self-improvement, spiritual advices, inner peace, general psychology, happiness, and some other things…” The topics he chooses are intriguing and unique, like the psychological meaning of certain eye movements. But he doesn’t just report. He interprets. I like that. Welcome Titus-Armand (TA?). I like your style.
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I’ve found StumbleUpon to add a lot of traffic to my site as well. We’re also listed on BloggerFodder.net. I’m wondering if maybe that site found Labster through StumbleUpon. Either way, I’m addicted to using that SU toolbar. Nice blog you have!
Daniel
http://www.labster.net
Daniel- I’ll check out bloggerfodder. Thanks for stopping by.
Thanks for mentioning BloggerFodder. It looks like a great site to find other blogs.
Wow your blog is worth heaps mate I just checked it and it’s round $32,000 over at http://www.business-opportunities.biz/
This could be part the reason for your great numbers of traffic heaps of links. Oh well keep up the good work and
Best regards
TJ Short
hahaha! That tool is hilarious. My vegetarian blog that I started not even four months ago is worth $52,000 eh?
My blog also ended up on bloggerfodder mysteriously, but only since I started using stumble.
Stumble is a great way to drive massive traffic to your site. It is not so easy to convert that traffic into dollar bills though. It’s almost frustrating, but then I think about it, and it’s still traffic.
Lately there has been enough traffic for a few good orgasms actually. A post I put up 6 or 7 days ago has been viewed over 16,000 times thanks to stumble.
The more “I like it’s!” and reviews, the longer your post get stumbled. It’s quite refreshing.
I thought the blog was porn.Im so stupid never blogged.