Comments on: Three Years Blogging

By: Chris Evans

Chris Evans — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:48:28 +0000

Congratulations Harry! I really enjoy your discussions on First Manassas and your other excellent posts about various aspects of the Civil War. Very enjoyable reading all around.
Chris

By: Eric Wittenberg

Eric Wittenberg — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:54:31 +0000

Congrats, Harry. Nobody knows better than me what’s involved in long-term blogging, and anybody who’s made it as long as you have has my respect. Keep up the good work.

Eric

By: Don

Don — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:26:05 +0000

Harry,

Congratulations on three years, my friend. Looking forward to many more entertaining and informative posts here.

By: Craig Swain

Craig Swain — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:24:59 +0000

Yes, pop culture references will get raw numbers in. Guess I am looking at it more to shape the incoming traffic and frame the dialog. No offense to those who are indeed looking to compete over the numbers, but I really don’t want to have comment-level conversations about someone’s book report. Although there are some out there who’ve taken the SEO goal to some absurd level (arguably because they don’t really understand SEO in the first place), there is something to be said for optimizing the content on a site toward a topic.

By: John Hoptak

John Hoptak — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:48:24 +0000

Harry
Congrats on three years’ bloggin’ and your commitment to the study of history.

November must be Civil War blogger’s month; my three-year anniversary is coming up: November 17.

Anyway, I look forward to all that lies ahead here on Bull Runnings.

By: Harry Smeltzer

Harry Smeltzer — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:38:06 +0000

Thanks Kevin.

By: Harry Smeltzer

Harry Smeltzer — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:37:36 +0000

Assuming you’re talking about search engine terms, it looks like some form of N. C. Wyeth leads the way, with Brian Jones, Buddy Holly, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Walter Sobchak falling in behind. I mentioned Wyeth and Jones in the article above, Buddy Holly’s picture comes at the end of an article on Longstreet aides Terry and Lubbock (Holly was from Lubbock, TX), Gloria Vanderbilt was part of the Kilpatrick series, and Walter Sobchak, a character in “The Big Lebowski”, is pictured in my post about page views titled “Taking Hits.” I don’t really know what to make of any of it, except that pop culture references and especially photos are good for traffic!

By: Craig Swain

Craig Swain — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:02:53 +0000

Harry, just curious about the “technical” stats a bit – would you mind relating what the “most searched for” top ten key words of your blog are?

By: kevlvn

kevlvn — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:02:16 +0000

Congratulations Harry. I’m coming up on my 4th later this week. Given that most blogs don’t make it past 6 months this is quite an accomplishment.

Best,
Kevin at Civil War Memory