23 April 2008



Housekeeping



The more observant of you may have noticed a few changes to the sidebar on the right recently. There's now a link to ジョーのブルーシート, which is a blog I've made for my Japanese language classes at uni. It's just a place to upload my weekly homeworks for others to read, and the teacher encourages everyone in our class to do it. If you don't read Japanese it's probably not that interesting, but if you do you might wanna take a look.

Also, I removed the Spottt thing that used to be there. It didn't really bring much traffic to the blog at all, and some of the images that were appearing didn't look too nice, so I took it down. But my hits have been increasing quite a lot recently - not quite sure why. I've found that every site I've created tends to constantly grow though, and last month's hits reached a record high. I think a lot of people come here through obscure Google searches, and it's quite interesting to look through my stats at the keyphrases. For example, if you search "sonic duvet cover" I'm currently second in the whole of Google, and third for "sumo wrestling cymbals"!



2 Comments:


Blogger Ben Nuttall said...

"That way I can make new friends, so seriously, so everyone is TANOSHII"

Haha: http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fjoesbluesheet.blogspot.com%2F&langpair=ja%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8

I used that yesterday to translate Yifan's (my Chinese friend from school) blog from Chinese to English.

I see the layout updates as a positive move. Spottt wasn't that cool, as you said, and if it wasn't generating any traffic, there's no point.

I haven't checked my site stats lately, but when I do I always find weird google searches leading to my site. It's pretty funny lol.

Someone messaged me recently to let me know that a google image search for "David Belle" (the founder of parkour) would include a picture of me and my parkour friends from my blog. Pretty cool.

When are you off to Japan? I'm going to Manchester in September. Can't wait.

Hope to see you some time this Summer.

Ben

4/28/08 11:02 AM  

Blogger Jephso said...

That translation of my blog is pretty funny. How broken is the translation software though? None of it really made too much sense and some of those were really simple sentences.

I'm going at the end of this September, and I'm sure there'll be some good stuff happening this summer.

4/28/08 7:44 PM  



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