From the long, dark nights of fevered imagination to the contented glow of a man who has got something right.
Today, tomorrow or very soon, Salut! will reach a significant milestone: 50,000 hits.
Having just attended a seminar at the London School of Economics on how journalists can make the web pay - in short they probably can't was the message I sort of received - I know all about page impressions and uniques.
But while I readily confess to not knowing how many individuals have
visited this site since its creation last October, I can also tell you
that we have already passed the 50,000 mark for visits (even if that is
two people making 25,000 each).
Hundreds if not thousands of people had already been here before I set
up the counter that you see somewhere down the right hand column.
It often strikes me as a little hard to accept that Salut! has not
attained any ranking in the only blogger chart I have come across, the
Technoranki one.
I swear I even saw a couple of oddball sex sites creep in towards the
bottom of that hit parade for a week or two. But no sign of Salut!, and
no way of knowing - since Technoranki jealously guards the secrets of
its trade - what I need to do to make my breakthrough.
Nevertheless, the fact remains that I have been given massive public
support in the small, income-free corner of the web that is this site.
My hope is that it will get better still, though that is likely to
necessitate a move to new accommodation quite soon, and that more
people will be attracted.
But as a mark of my appreciation of your support - whether as readers
or readers leaving comments - I offer a small commemorative prize.
To qualify, all you need to do is trawl through my blogging history -
here and/or at the Telegraph - and tell me the name of my ungovernable
(thanks, John M) French cat BY E-MAIL PLEASE TO
[email protected]
PLEASE DO NOT POST THE REPLY AS A COMMENT ON SALUT!The
prize - perhaps even prizes....let us see - will relate to my
interests, well documented here, in food and/or France. Arbitrary rules
will apply*.
* The closing date is 1800hrs French time on Wed April 3.
Winner or winners will be drawn from the correct replies received by
then........
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