Later today I’m off to Edinburgh for a few days.
It’ll be a lot of fun but things might be quiet on the blogging front until I get back.
Hope you all had an enjoyable Christmas!
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I wish all the readers of this website, local residents in Walkden and across Salford - and indeed everyone else for that matter - a very Merry Christmas. I hope you all have a very enjoyable day.
I will try to keep this blog updated over the festive period but blogging may well be light until after New Year.
This is my usual monthly round-up of where site visitors are coming from - of course it is worth noting that the majority of visitors come straight to this blog rather than “clicking through” somewhere else. Many thanks again to all the readers of this site and to everyone who has kindly linked to me.
Here are this month’s top ten referrers:
1. Google Search (-)
2. Live Search (+3)
3. Iain Dale’s Diary (re-entry)
4. ConservativeHome (-2)
5. Chris Paul (re-entry)
6. Vote UK Discussion Forum (-2)
7. Salford Conservatives (+3)
8. Yahoo Search (-2)
9. AOL Search (re-entry)
10. Facebook (-3)
Some significant changes this month, and PoliticalBetting, MyBlogLog and Tim Roll-Pickering have all lost their places in the top ten.
I am heading back to my old University stomping ground of York for the coming weekend to attend the University of York Conservative Association’s annual dinner - I am loathe to call an event on the 24th November “Christmas Dinner” even if it is technically the last Saturday in November.
It is always a great event and a chance to meet up with old friends and new members alike, but it does mean of course that as far as this website goes blogging will be light. Have a good weekend!
I’d like to do a bit of video-blogging, but my technical knowledge doesn’t extend to digital video cameras. If anyone can advise me on purchasing an inexpensive but suitable video camera for this purpose I would be very grateful! What do you think?
Please find below the top ten referring sites for this blog for October. A big thank-you to everyone who links to this website - it is greatly appreciated.
1. Google Search (+1)
2. ConservativeHome (-1)
3. PoliticalBetting (+1)
4. Vote 2007 Discussion Forum (-1)
5. Live Search (NEW)
6. Yahoo Search UK (+3)
7. Facebook (-1)
8. MyBlogLog (+2)
9. Tim Roll-Pickering (-)
10. City of Salford Conservatives (-2)
Of last month’s top ten, only Chris Paul has failed to make the cut.
I’m planning to give the blog design a bit of an update - an autumn clean if you like! If there’s anything you’d like to see in the sidebars (or something that is there at the moment which you’d rather vanished!) or if you have any suggestions for an improved banner at the top of the site, please leave me a comment and let me know!
Listed below are the top ten sites which have referred visitors to this blog over the past month. I’d like to thank everyone - regardless of whether they appear on this list - who has linked to this blog over the past month and helped pick up from where I left off before the hosting problems.
If you have a link to the old blog address on your blogroll or links page, I’d greatly appreciate it if you could update it to this new address. Anyway, without further ado, here are the top ten referring sites for September:
1. ConservativeHome
2. Google Search
3. Vote UK Discussion Forum
4. PoliticalBetting.com
5. Chris Paul
6. Facebook
7. David Ottewell
8. Salford Conservatives
9. Yahoo Search
10. MyBlogLog
You are, it seems, now reading the 131st most popular political blog in the country.
Okay, so it’s all a bit of fun, but congratulations to everyone who made the list (especially those in the upper echelons) and many thanks to everyone who was kind enough to include my blog on their lists of Top 20 blogs from which the overall ranking was obtained.
Nevertheless as someone with a natural competitive streak I shall be looking to improve my ranking next year!
I’m about to upgrade to the new version of K2, which is the excellent template this site is built on. My blog software WordPress has also released a brand-new version so I will be installing that over the next day or so as well. Hopefully it will all run smoothly, but there is always the small possibility that I’ll press the wrong button somewhere along the line, so if there are any glitches please let me know!
There shouldn’t be any downtime although the sidebars might get rearranged for a short while.
UPDATE: The sidebars on the new version of K2 seem to be a little bit temperamental, so I’ve reverted back to the old version for the time being. I can change back with one click of the mouse button if needbe.
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