News, Local history and Thanet issues from Michael's Bookshop in Ramsgate see www.michaelsbookshop.com I publish over 200 books about the history of this area click here to look at them.
This panorama of Ramsgate dates from about 1880 it is an engraving that has been made to look like a photograph, thoroughly modern at the time. I publish it in my book Views of Late Victorian Ramsgate one of my children cut it out and stuck it on the kitchen wall where it gives us great pleasure.
Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.
Hi Michael,
ReplyDeleteRe. your new counter. I notice that you have the google analytics code installed. Does that not provide you with enough visitor data?
You might also want to look at feedburner.com that allows you to see statistics for visitors that subscribe to your rss/atom feed. Feedburner were recently bought by Google so I guess there's a chance that this functionality has been integrated into blogger?
Chris I put the Google analytics code on Michaelsbookshop.com and Thanetonline.com and found there was a disparity between the figures from Google and my weblogs Easyspace.com so I thought the counter would be interesting. What surprises me most of all though is that the vast majority of the people visiting here come via thanetonline.com
ReplyDeleteOne reason for the difference in figures between Google Analytics and your web server's log files is that GA relies on Javascript to work. That means that if someone (or thing, i.e. a search engine spider) visits your site with Javascript disabled then the visit will register in your web server's log files but not in GA. Having had a really quick look, it appears that the hitcounter doesn't rely on Javascript so I would expect you to see figures that more closely resemble your weblogs rather than GA.
ReplyDeleteChris thanks for the info I have had a bit of a play at feed burner, not sure I answered all the questions correctly, but will see how it goes. Certainly the figure that the counter is coming up with of about 100 visits a day confirms my feelings based on what the people who come in shop say.
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