Saturday, March 12, 2011

5,000 Hits For Zen Throw Down!

I started this blog at the very end of May 2009, so I'm approaching two years of blogging. 5,000 hits in two years is not going to make earn any records, but I have to say I'm so excited that anyone is reading the blog that having that many people stop by feels great! So here's some Zen Throw Down factoids to celebrate 5,000 visits!

Top 10 Postings

Looks like the Mumonkan postings have really taken off in the last couple months to become the main draw of the blog. This pleases me, because the blog is Zen Throw Down, so I guess the key content ought to be about Zen. Of course, I must also have the Throw Down part take care of too. I hope the Mumonkan postings are interesting or useful to people, as I was a bit leery about posting my koan musings at first.

1. Mumonkan, Koan 12: Zuigan Calls His Master (Feb 2011) - 146 pageviews
2. Concrete Poetry (May 2010) - 138 pageviews
3. Mumonkan, Koan 6: The Buddha Holds Out A Flower (Oct 2010) - 76 pageviews
4. Mumonkan, Koan 12 (continued): Loose Marble (Feb 2011) - 66 pageviews
5. Mumonkan, Koan 10: Seizei Is Utterly Destitute (Jan 2011) - 47 pageviews
6. Delayed Halloween Post (Nov 2010) - 23 pageviews
7. DROID X (Aug 2010) - 21 pageviews
8. Sinus Issues Continue (Jan 2011) - 18 pageviews
9. Beset By Owls! (Nov 2010) - 18 pageviews
10. Ip Man (Dec 2010) - 18 pageviews

Audience

Another thing that encourages me is the diversity of people who end up on the site through search results. This makes me think that there's something of value in my ramblings...at least in so far as the topics are things other people are bothering to do Google searches on!  ; )  Here's where visitors are coming from:
  • United States - 3,314 hits
  • France - 340 hits (I'm half French, so welcome!)
  • United Kingdom - 140 hits
  • Canada - 131 hits
  • Brazil - 97 hits
  • Germany - 71 hits
  • Poland - 42 hits (I'm half Polish, so welcome to my visitors from Polska!)
  • Netherlands - 41 hits
  • China - 34 hits
  • India - 34 hits
 Thanks for visiting, even if it's only to read one post!

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