Congratulations!

I hit 10,000 visitors on Monday! 10,000 over the past 8 months since March of 2002. You can see all the details on my stats page... just click any of the links in the "Last 5 visitors" list.

I get about 100 different visitors per day.  It started out at around 0 or 1 per day in March, and has been growing ever since.  I remember when I was like, wo, there were TEN people on my site today!!  And then 20, and then 50, and then.... it’s just amazing.

The count is a visitor count, not a hit count.  It doesn’t increase when you refresh the page.  So it really is a fairly accurate count of the number of different people who visit.

Oh, and in case you’re wondering, the secret to getting lots of people to your website is CONTENT.  If you put useful stuff on your site, Google will know, and show you love, and then people who want to find that stuff will show you love.  Really.  All that nonsense about meta tags, and sites that offer to "register your website with 5000 search engines".... it’s pure trickery.  Just put up a site that’s useful and it will succeed.