You may recall a post last September where I wrote about my intention to reach post number 1,000 and then shut down ElvisBlog.
This is information I get each month from WordPress. See where I am now? 986 posts. That’s what you get when you’ve posted every weekend since February 2005. Plus extra ones every now and then.
So, after today’s post, I’ve got to do thirteen more to meet my goal. I better hurry up. My blog platform expires on January 31, and I’m changing www.elvisblog.net to a static site. No new posts will be added.
But the old ones will still be accessible. Because of that, I think Google searches will continue to bring hundreds of folks to ElvisBlog every month. Here’s why:
The line at the top shows that ElvisBlog had 9,100 user visits, or hits, last month. That’s a lot. A good bit of it was traffic Google brought to the blog with their search links. So many subjects have been covered here that ElvisBlog comes up a lot on Google when people are searching for something about Elvis. And there is no reason this should go down just because there aren’t any more new posts.
So, I’m feeling pretty good knowing my stuff will continue to be read by Elvis fans long after I retire.
In the meantime, I need to get going. Thirteen more posts in 24 days. One of them will celebrate Elvis’ birthday. Two will be about the Elvis goodies I am selling. The first will have paperback books and magazines, and the other will be kind of a clean-up of what’s left.
I’ll also repost a few of better articles from years past. And then number 1,000 will be my farewell message.
Phil Arnold
Original ElvisBlogmeister
You may recall a post last September where I wrote about my intention to reach post number 1,000 and then shut down ElvisBlog.
This is information I get each month from WordPress. See where I am now? 986 posts. That’s what you get when you’ve posted every weekend since February 2005. Plus extra ones every now and then.
So, after today’s post, I’ve got to do thirteen more to meet my goal. I better hurry up. My blog platform expires on January 31, and I’m changing elvisbblog.net to a static site. No new posts will be added.
But the old ones will still be accessible. Because of that, I think Google searches will continue to bring hundreds of folks to ElvisBlog every month. Here’s why:
The line at the top shows that ElvisBlog had 9,100 user visits, or hits, last month. That’s a lot. A good bit of it was traffic Google brought to the blog with their search links. So many subjects have been covered here that ElvisBlog comes up a lot on Google when people are searching for something about Elvis. And there is no reason this should go down just because there aren’t any more new posts.
So, I’m feeling pretty good knowing my stuff will continue to be read by Elvis fans long after I retire.
In the meantime, I need to get going. Thirteen more posts in 24 days. One of them will celebrate Elvis’ birthday. Two will be about the Elvis goodies I am selling. The first will have paperback books and magazines. And the other will be kind of a clean-up of what’s left.
I’ll also repost a few of better articles from years past. And then number 1,000 will be my farewell message.
Phil Arnold
Original ElvisBlogmeister