I have 74 restaurant reviews on the website Trusted Places.
I get a much larger readership there than here. Seventeen times as large.
2911 people looked at my profile.
17596 read my reviews in less than a year.
(As a journalist I got more readers. About 80,000 on a magazine such as Brides. About a million for Take A Break. But blogging, where you get feedback, is more exciting. When you write a magazine article you might never meet anybody who's read it until ten years later.)
Of course Trusted Places is more focused on restaurants.
I watch my increasingly statistics every day.
My son does search engine optimization (company Market Appeal)
so I can get feedback from him.
I wanted to know how much difference is made by the links from my Facebook entry to Trusted Places. And does Trusted Places know.
Yes. He is going to tell me.
It's links which help drive up your ratings.
My son has been telling me this.
It was brought home to me when I met Jeremy Jacobs at Harrovians Toastmasters.
Jeremy's blog has shot up in the ratings. He says blog every day. And add links.
His website is jeremyjacobs.com
You should read it.
Until now I've felt I can't be bothered to start linking up all the time.
But when you can link just be clicking on an icon which somebody else has inserted, it's easy.
Now I shall pay more attention to the links.
Now I realise I have a link icon above in the toolbar I shall use it more.
Then one day I shall have 80,000 readers for a blog. Then a million.
I tell myself I am making progress. I can remember when I didn't have a blog. In fact I can remember when I didn't have a computer. Mustn't digress. Back to the restaurant review. go to Trusted Places to see my reviews of restaurants in London and other parts of England. I've just written about Cafe Rouge, blubeckers, the University of Wales, and The Hayes Conference Centre in Derbyshire and put up pictures of amusing places such as the Hell Fire Caves.
