28 April (Part 5) - The ever popular Danny Hackett making more friends
The phone rang rather too late in the evening for my liking, it was about
10 p.m. last night but it was a friend so you can’t complain.
“How many people look at Bonkers?” the voice said, the answer to which was “I
don’t really know, probably somewhere between five and ten thousand unique visitors from the UK to the daily blogs each
month. It used to be a lot more, in fact there have been times when it’s exceeded 5,000 on
line at the same time but that requires a bigger Council scandal than we have seen for a long time”.
“Why don’t you know?” “Because I don’t really care, in fact you could say I have
gone out of my way to keep the site out of Google’s hands. Until recently it
even contained the ‘noindex’ instruction because I was fed up with
solicitors’ complaining about years old totally truthful blogs, so I make them hard to find and Google’s cache might defeat that.”
“Oh, I was hoping you could tell me how many people were likely to see your
Danny Hackett epistle.” “Sorry, can’t help.”
(If this conversation is confusing you, you should know that “today’s’ Danny blog
went on line just before 9 p.m. yesterday evening.)
Technically speaking, Bonkers loads up the Google analytics code in an Include file
but that file has had nothing in it for ages, but to appease the friend, late as
it was, I thought I’d restore it only to find the code was already there despite
Google and similar sites telling me that Bonkers was getting no visitors at all. Exactly as planned.
Some head scratching soon revealed that I had mistyped the ID number. Fixed it.
If my friend is reading this, the Danny blog was seen by 57 different people
between 11:39 p.m. and midnight last night.
Does no one sleep in Bexley? (A small handful of readers had managed to bypass it.)
Danny Hackett with Andrew Kennedy and Anna Firth. Danny says Andrew is a top bloke so I suppose he must be
while I prefer Anna in the Angela Rayner skirt. (All three, and on the poster,
have chins in danger of dropping to the floor.)