10,000

Today I passed 10,000 hits on my blog!! With my highest day of 152.

Certainly an improvement from the days of my whining blog about not getting any hits

And 366 SPAM comments!

Kylie’s Blog in German

How cool is this?

My blog translated to German!!

Blog visits!

Magic! I had the most visits to my blog in one day yesterday!! After complaining about no-one coming, the avalanche hit. I don't know why though??? I'm still not getting many search engine hits, although there has been a slight improvement…..

Still no one is interested in completing my survey

The Frustrated Blogger

Since establishing my blog a couple of months ago, I had been consistently getting 5-10 search engine hits per day – mostly people searching for egg free and dairy free recipes. Then suddenly, for no apparent reason, they have stopped, and so has my traffic.

Now, whilst I am not trying to get traffic to my blog for commercial gain, it's a warm and comforting thought that I can reach people who also have kids with allergies, and that other people are reading some of my crap and I'm not just writing it for my own entertainment.

How do I get the search engine's to see me again?

Any suggestions would be much appreciated…..

That is – if anyone reads this entry….

Setting up my Blog – Getting an Image into a Post

A very boring and predictable post.. possibly. But hoping it will help Bron, Mum and Dad

I went to www.wordpress.com and registered. I followed their instructions. (hard so far huh?)

The only thing I have really had any trouble with was adding an image to my page/post. Firstly you use the Upload feature underneath the “Save” and “Publish” buttons on the “Write Post” page. This allows you to browse to the photo you want to add and Upload it to the wordpress site. It should then appear if you select “Browse all” tab in the upload box. Left Click on the image and select “Send to Editor” .

Voila! – as Milo would say.

If you then click on the image in your Write Post edit – you will see it is selected by he handles on the image. Then select the picture of the tree in the menu bar for writing a Post. This will allow you to position the image in your text. If you do this, and your image takes over the whole post, you need to edit you picture (in paint or similar) to reduce the size. I use the “skew/scale” option and keep reducing until its the right size…. making sure that I keep the proportions right. Simply save (as another name) and upload the reduced size file.

If you want to add a series of photos – ie. an album – I believe you are better off adding in a photo manager. Have a look at Cam’s site to get an idea of what I mean.

He also has lots of references and handy hints in this entry in his blog.