Day 2

Intresting day. I looked and looked for the widget that lets you know who is visiting your page. It always took me back to blogcatalog, which I didn't really look at because I thought it was just another blog site. So I wanted to get something to tell me how many hits my blog is getting. This is called a site meter and I found a free one on sitemeter.com. It took me a while to paste it into the html but I was trying to paste it onto the end of a piece of code. What I should have done is clicked enter after the line so there was a space to actually paste the code into. Once I had worked that out I found the icon for site meter at the foot of my blog and a click took me straight to the site and I could see how many hits I had recieved today.
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Next I looked at how to increase traffic to my page. I took 2 pieces of advice:
1) Introduce myself to the bogger comunity by saying Hi! on the coffee shop forum.
2) Sign up for blogcatalog!
One of the first things this does is give you access to the bloody thing I started out looking for this morning! I still wasnt sure if this was allowed but I did see a blogspot blog with it yesterday and the blogcatalog site has google adsense on it so I thought what the heck!
As it happens you can't sign up with blogcatalog until you paste one of three widgets onto your blog. So I also signed this one up as well and you can see the results at the foot of the blog page. Hopefully it will be yourself you can see!
It will take a few days until I find out if my blog has been accepted into the blogcatalog community. I also decided to change the look of my blog. It was easy enough but the little sitemeter icon is now missing from the bottom of the page. Wisely, I had put sitemeter into my favourites so it's just a case of clicking on that for the info.

Things to do:
more widgets
more photos
sign up to similar sites like blogcatalog