Five hundred and five hits today (I think my personal best is around 600), and my total uniques are now over 40,000. I do realize those stats are tiny for some of you, but for me this is amazing.

You don't think it has anything to do with my nomination for the Wizbang! Weblog Awards, do you?

I've been doing this since March of 2003, when I began the old BlogSpot site. In the beginning I was getting eight hits a day, which turned into 15, which turned into 30. This past spring I moved to a "real" domain courtesy of Pixy Misa's Munuvian Mafia, and worked my way up to perhaps 60-70 hits. This past summer I asked Julie of BlogMoxie to redesign my page, and she whipped up a nice creation that went online in early September. In the first two weeks after the redesign, my traffic doubled, which probably had to do with the power of Rion Vernon's artand the mystique of tight sweaters. Since that time traffic has tripled, though I did go through a "post-election slump" in November that made me feel I was losing ground I'd previously gained. But it's all coming back, courtesy of Kevin and the Weblog Awards.

And that brings me to John Hawkins, who is once again dispensing the advice he gives "up and coming" bloggers, which amounts to working very hard and being very patient.

John's philosophy, which he calls the "very very rule"—

"Remember that you will have to be very, very, good, for a very, very, long time, while working very, very, hard to promote your work and you will be very, very, underappreciated the whole time."

We all know the exceptions, but I'm not so sure that some of the bloggers who enjoyed a meteoric rise aren't more vulnerable to burnout than the rest of us.

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1 I want 500 hits. Cool that you got them...

Posted by: Scott B at December 05, 2004 01:38 AM (y6ZHS)

2 Congrats on busting 40K. Yes, tight sweaters helps Actually, the first time I came to your site was a link from another blog, and, for whatever reason, the graphic didn't load using IE. I keep coming back for your writings, as well as the format makes it an easy read. I have seen some sites where the writing is great, but it is hard to read because of color schemes. Yours is great. Keep up the good work!

Posted by: William Teach at December 05, 2004 07:21 AM (KCG7N)

3 Yeah, that burnout can make some people 'touchy,' don't you think???...;-) I guess I need a sitemeter. But honestly. I don't care about the numbers. I really love the commenters and conversing with them. Thats really why I do it. (That and I am bored lonely housewife with no poolboy, yeah...that too) (J/K!!!)

Posted by: Rightwingsparkle at December 05, 2004 09:17 AM (nrlu9)

4 Yes! You have to approach it like a job. You do the job whether your results are up or down that day. And to think about what you can bring to it that nobody else can. Just between u & me, what Instapostit does isn't rocket science. But the new gen of bloggers seems to be more creative.

Posted by: jeff at December 05, 2004 03:16 PM (YfKrn)

5 I know, I know. I rarely visit Glenn, since it's just a big linkfest. And if I want that, I prefer Opinion Journal's The Best of the Web. Besides which, Glenn has never linked me. So how perceptive could he really be?

Posted by: Attila Girl at December 05, 2004 03:31 PM (SuJa4)

6 Hey! Remind me to be VERY careful what I post here girlfriend! Geeze!!!!!!!

Posted by: Rightwingsparkle at December 05, 2004 10:16 PM (nrlu9)

7 But he didn't link back here; he linked to your site. So only people who go both places will see what he's alluding to. Hey--not only do I not have a poolman; I don't even have a pool.

Posted by: Attila Girl at December 05, 2004 11:34 PM (SuJa4)

8 you know. Thats true. I wonder how much of my blog they will read frantically searching for my reference to needing a poolboy. Men are so......needy.

Posted by: Rightwingsparkle at December 06, 2004 04:06 PM (nrlu9)

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