Top 10 signs that your blog isn’t very popular

10. When checking your hitcounter, you can identify your regular readers by their IP addresses.
9. Your site has a PageRank of -3.
8. You have on more than one occasion unsuccessfully attempted to Slashdot or Instalanche your blog.
7. The bulk of your traffic is the result of obscure fetish seekers, and your blog happens to be the only site on the internet containing the words sexy German toes squishing creamed corn, but not necessarily in that order.
6. The last twenty visitors to your site? ALL YOU!
5. You log into your Adsense account and it says you owe Google $7.
4. The Truth Laid Bear had to create a special Ecosystem ranking just for you: Antimatter.
3. You shamelessly link and/or trackback to Instapundit, Malkin, Dooce, and Wil Wheaton, in the hopes of the off chance that they will see the link and visit your site.
2. No one ever responds to your meme tags.

And the number one sign that your blog isn’t popular:

Posting “FIRST!!!” in your comment threads is no great feat.

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