what was the joke!!!?

Heh well it isn't my joke (and i credited it as such it's a joke by a man called Robin Ince - (funny but unpleasant bloke) some of my work mates said they were going to the Daily mail ideal home exhibition & he had a joke that all there would be there would be a gun turret with a moat around it, a barbed wire fence and a sign saying 'no dogs no blacks no irish' (Daily mail is a very racist & right wing newspaper don't you know)

Where can I get Tron shoes?

Hi Caroline -- I found you through a google search, and the link came from a hit on "Blogs of Note." So you're still floating around out there somewhere! As for helping you get traffic, I'm a fairly new blog, but I'll certainly spread the word via my "owner's" blog.

Henry, the blogging cat

Hopefully the visitors you snagged from being a Blog of Note will keep coming back, and tell their friends. I know I came across your blog from the Blogs of Note list, and I come back every day now, and have added the link to a few of my own blogs. Chin up!

probably they didn't have enough tea today. ;)

LOL the joke isn't bad :) after reading your comment about Daily Mail (the very last line) the joke is very funny XD well when I first stumbled upon your blog it's all google's help because you blog was listed on "Blogs of Note"... I've linked you at my blog too, hope that brings a few more visitors over here. Try registering your blog for ping services (technorati etc) so that you'll get more exposure. Over time when you get a large reader base your blog will be popular (anyway it's already quite popular, isn't it?)

I came upon your site from a networking site I belong to called linkspank (www.linkspank.com) where users share fun and cool links with each other. They accumulate points by sharing links and then win prizes. It's an interesting concept. Anyway, someone linkspanked your website and now I'm a regular reader!

Hiya
I have found that the more comments that I leave on other blogs the more people come and visit me. I have your site linked on my blog and I think that isgood practice for everyone. Every blogger should create a "links" section. That is how I have stumbled across many of my favourites, through browsing others favourites.
*OM*

Here is how to get more traffic on your site. All of these have worked for me.

1) Make a comment on someone else's more popular than yours blog.

This will definitely get you one to three hits.

If you do this every day for a year then you're looking at, potentially, more hits than if you didn't do it.

2) If you find yourself in a situation where you are standing miserably in a room above a pub with a bunch of other people who are comparing Batman to Superman in increasingly specific and therefore hilarious detail, wondering why you bothered travelling for an hour and a half to the room, look around.

One person will be using their mobile phone as an invisibility device.

Approach them and say "Hi. Is that the (insert phone name) Hey, Could you check out how my blog looks on that site? I'm not sure about the g2 capability of my server,"

I find this is good for up to two hits a week. That's 104 hits a year.

3) This is my most effective strategy. I guarantee it will work.

At the point where your blog is at it's absolute strongest with regular commentators and links from other sites, with people whose bodies you didn't even get born out of reading it, suddenly stop blogging for about 6 months or until the point where you get a daily stat of "zero"

At this point, start blogging again, surreptitiously. After approximately three weeks you will maybe see your Mum, your Dad, your partner and three of your friends start reading your blog again, which will mean an increase from zero to six.

By my calculations this is a six million percent increase in traffic.

Hope this helps.

one way to get press is to maybe kill someone?! that will get the blog some column inches - while the papers recount facts about your life. but then i suppose you'd have trouble posting further blogs, what with the fact you'll be 'doing bird'. what i'd suggest is, well - not killing someone, i think we've agreed that's over-the-top BUT seriously hurt someone in the public eye. Like Duncan from Blue. while wearing a 'local girl' t-shirt.

You rock. I'm now an addicted fan for life!

i thought sunshine was better than ***...maybe four, even. anyhow, WHAT. now i want tron shoes.

i found you in the blogs of note list 2 days ago, and i'll keep coming back. that's something, right?

You should change your RSS feed to be managed by feedburner so you can keep track of who reads it that way.

Weird, my boyfriend and I just watched Tron the same night you had your dream! We forgot how bad the acting was. Oh well.

your blog rocks, i found it through blogs of note and have added a link to it from my blog. trouble is, nobody reads my blog. hey ho. keep on truckin xxx

I have an idea! Maybe you could write an established comic artist a fawning email asking for his opinion and when he writes back you could quote him and insult him BIGTIME in your blog and then bask in the traffic that follows. Only trouble is, it's unwarranted and needlessly unkind and you shoot yourself in the foot in the process, but oh well, right? good luck, I still love your blog.

Oh be serious - how could you possibly think i did it for the traffic? I had absolutely no idea anyone would care!

Are you being serious? You are talented and funny and have a great blog that a lot of people are reading and you don't expect anyone to care when spout undeserved vitriol about someone? You are too modest. It's kind of endearing, but a little scary, too. best -

Unfortunately I am being serious! To me it was just another page in Local Girl's diary :-/