Hi everyone. I wanted to tell you some interesting things about my blog:

(a) I installed a nifty analytics plugin on my GTS Blog called Jetpack. This is a program by Automattic, the creators of WordPress. I find this program to be very good, and while it is not as sophisticated as Google Analytics is, it is simpler to understand and less geeky. It is also very easy to get access to, showing a lot of information directly in your WordPress Admin panel without needing to switch to another website.

(b) Traffic on my GTS Blog is through the roof. I am inserting a screenshot of the analytics program which shows that I have averaged about 800 page views a day over the last 10 days (Jetpack does not count your own visits so all of these page views are from my readers). This is up dramatically from an average of about 300 page views over the last few months.


(c) Why is traffic up so sharply? I can think of two answers: (1) some really good posts that I have written have gone viral over the net. Facebook alone accounts for over 100 clicks a day. (2) there is a lot of international traffic because the blog is translated into over 20 languages using our GTS plugin. Traffic from translated pages is about 25% of the total.

(d) The Top Language Lovers blog competition run by bab.la and Lexiophiles is TOTAL NONSENSE. They did not even put my blog among the top 100. Instead they selected a lot of blogs that have very little traffic and a small following. For example: the blogs by veritaslanguagesolutions and Atominium have far less traffic than my blog. Yet they got in the top 25 list of professional blogs. Why? Isn’t the point of a blog or a website to build up a strong following by providing valuable content? My conclusion is that this contest is rigged, a sham, total bullshit. GTS Blog is the best one in the translation industry, I don’t need anybody to tell me that. And I have already made up my mind so don’t confuse me with the facts!

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