Popularity and Link Exchange

Posted by The *Angriest* Pharmacist as --Not Pharmacy--, Blogs I like

Hello all! I’ve been writing stories, anecdotes, rants to The *Angriest* Pharmacist since February 5th, 2007. So, for the last 10 months, I’ve been ripping people’s face off by being real, telling it like it is, and putting a little fire/passion into my writing. There’s been some great discussion and excellent emails as well as some pointless spam and meaningless hate mail with no basis. The popularity of this site as grown to extents that I would’ve thought were impossible for a mere pharmacist’s blog.

I switched domain providers in the middle of October, so all data prior to that concerning hits was lost. But since October 18th, this website has gotten over 55,000 unique hits *without* counting the various bots (like Googlebot, Lycos, etc.) that scour the internet for new pages/websites. That’s around 1200 each day!

The amount of page views is also off the charts. In that same time frame, I’ve seen about 100,000 page views. That means that most people viewed at least the main page plus one additional page/post on my blog. I’m lucky my hosting provider’s plan alots me plenty of bandwidth, otherwise I would have exceeded that each month and be forced to pay a fee for each megabyte gone over. I could double my traffic to more than 60,000 pageviews each month and still not hit my limit. I doubt I’ll ever get there.

That number is amazing to me — especially considering that this is what most would consider a “specialty” blog where the majority of posts won’t be understood or read by the vast majority of internet users. However, I’m sure a sizeable amount of those hits are people seeking drug information or medical advice. Some of them are also going to be repeat hits at different times (at least 10 minutes apart is how I have it set) whereas each one counts as a unique visit.

I am not looking to make any money off of my website. I don’t have the time to put into it to make any kind of profit worth my time. What I am looking to do is share this volume of potential readers with all medical blogs. If you’ll notice, the right most frame has a dropdown box on the right side at the very top. I read every one of those pharmacist blogs. Most of them have a return link here.

If you would like my to link to your webpage/blog in that drop down box, let me know. I’d ask that you return the favor and link to me, but it’s highly unlikely that I will ever check that you do so. So, if you want me to link you, click the contact link at the top of my page and shoot me a message with the name of your blog, the category it would likely be in, the URL, and your tagline. I’ll add it to my links as soon as possible. I don’t care if it’sa pharmacy blog or not — I’d just like it to be related to medicine in some way. If I get several that are in a different category from pharmacy, I will adjust the dropdown box to separate them from the Pharmacy/Pharmacist blogs.

On average, I’d say 10 hits per day leave this site to each one of those dropdown links — some get more, like Drug Nazi, but I’d be willing to bet that if I link you, you will see a few more hits each day. Just let me know…it will be a positive, mutual association.

Also, I’d suggest everyone register. You do this by clicking the “Register” link the right-most frame near the bottom. I’ve made some changes that allow you to comment without restriction if you are registered. All you are required to provide is a login name, email address, and password (which I can’t see - I can only delete). In the past, I’ve had to approve each comment 1 at a time as they come in. I’ve grown tired of that tedious process, so I’m relaxing the rules a bit. The login process should still keep the spam bots at bay. With registration, you will also get a short email each time a new post or page is added. I won’t ever share, post, or exploit your email. Nor will you ever get an email from me for any other reason except for a new post — so get to it!

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