{"id":477,"date":"2006-03-15T14:52:03","date_gmt":"2006-03-15T22:52:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-03-15T15:09:56","modified_gmt":"2006-03-15T23:09:56","slug":"growth-of-wiredatom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/15\/growth-of-wiredatom\/","title":{"rendered":"Growth of WiredAtom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It just so happened that exactly three months ago today, I took a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/15\/over-10000-people-served\/\">snapshot<\/a> of the stats of this blog at the time. WiredAtom just broke 10,000 unique visitors since I installed the stat tracker. Three months later, it seems like the site has been consistently getting 10,000 hits a month. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/hits_03_15_2006.png\" widht=\"280\" height=\"356\" class=\"centered\" alt=\"Page stats as of March 15, 2006\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I also found it odd that my arbitrary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/02\/wordpress-update-random-header\/\">post<\/a> on using the WordPress Random Header plugin is ranked higher than the official WordPress site! What the hell? My <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/09\/health-insurance-frauds\/\">entry<\/a> on insurance fraud is also ranked among top 5 results when &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=unethical+doctors&#038;hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;start=10&#038;sa=N\" target=\"_blank\">unethical doctor<\/a>&#8221; is Googled! I am convinced that Google takes into account the &#8220;freshness&#8221; of a topic relevant to the keyword. I mean, there&#8217;s no fricking way I should be out ranking WordPress on a plugin that it provides! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It just so happened that exactly three months ago today, I took a snapshot of the stats of this blog at the time. WiredAtom just broke 10,000 unique visitors since I installed the stat tracker. Three months later, it seems like the site has been consistently getting 10,000 hits a month. I also found it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/15\/growth-of-wiredatom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Growth of WiredAtom&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-geek-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-7H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}