26 May (Part 1) - Boris browses Bonkers
Googling my own name is not something I do, at least not very often; it seems a bit vain
to me and last time I did it I came across
something that Bexley council must wish I hadn’t. But Googling for the two words Bexley and Bonkers can be excused by labelling it ‘required research’.
I did it again yesterday and came across some pretty odd stuff. I don’t know
where they get their figures from but the sites that claim to rate the worth of
other sites and assess the traffic carried can only be considered a bit of a
joke. I learned that Bonkers is worth 872 dollars and that it attracted 45 visitors a
day. Obviously it is worth nothing in monetary terms and if it attracted only 45
readers a day I doubt I would bother. I know exactly how many visitors it gets
and expressed in the most favourable way that bloggers tend to use it has passed
the 30,000 a month barrier.
Recently it has been less than that and I get the impression that without a
daily ration of Craske scandal readers drop by less often. However if anything,
the number of individual readers is slightly up month on month but except in a
few cases it is impossible to tell who they are, so I was intrigued by the website,
thecommentator.com.
They had submitted a Freedom of Information request to the Greater London Authority asking for the
top 500 browsing destinations registered on GLA servers. Bonkers was 319th on the list for the
most recent three months. The number of hits isn’t stated but according to the accompanying
notes, those at the bottom end of the list were getting around 1,000 visits a quarter.
What pleased me most was not just that Bonkers was on the list but that as far
as I can tell only one other blog is listed. the provocatively named
arseblog which I discovered related to Arsenal football club. But
the six or seven noisy bloggers of the pariah borough of Barnet didn’t get a
look in, ditto those in Greenwich, notably
853.blog which rather pleased me
because the author generally pretends Bonkers does not exist and refuses to provide a link.
The only other local website listed is the News Shopper at position number 289.
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