Friday 21 August 2009

North Coast Voices: blog visitor profile



Earlier this week North Coast Voices received a rather nice email via Boy the Wonder Cat's address:

Just a short note to say what a good job you do at independent news gathering. The site looks great. Too many great contributions to reply to all, so pass on my regards. I felt a bit intimidated that there are no comments for any posts. Do you get many hits locally? I hope so, it is a much better read than the Star or the Echo.

Now it is true that there are few comments made on North Coast Voices posts and, it is always fascinating to see the number of emails sent to our blogging cat or mention made of us in the local media in lieu of using the blog's comment section.

However, this is not something that troubles us as we are like half the blogosphere ourselves - mostly 'lurkers' nor comment makers.

The email did get me thinking though about giving readers a little feedback.

Yes, we are getting a growing number of local northern NSW visitors to the blog and North Coast Voices now appears in blog roll links on a number of other Australian websites for which we are grateful.

Current readership is roughly divided into 50 per cent Australian visitors to the blog and 50 per cent visitors from overseas. Some readers stay for a minute or so and a few stay for half an hour or more.

Readers can be as close as the Tweed and Coffs Harbour or as far away as Tunisia and Chile. Both Canberra and Washington DC frequently feature in any location breakdown by month.

Various government department and university computers across the country also have a peek at what our authors have to say. As of course does Monsanto and other multinational companies we mention from time to time.

North Coast Voices has been up and running for twenty-two months and has it's second birthday in early October.

A big thankyou to all who read this blog.

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