10, 09, 08, 07, 06, 05, 04, 03, 02, 01... Happy New Year!
So bring it on 2013 I am trying to be ready for you, your 2012 sneak attack was met with some great ninja moves and great friends. I had thought to do a reflection of all the cool things that 2012 had to offer or the fact that last year my sites generated around 700 to 1000 hits in December and this year... combined is 13,000 to 15,000. That is an amazing jump, I know some of you hit that type of numbers daily and to you I say congratulations. I am so blessed being able to bring people here, to any of my places... you who visit are good people... thank you.
The question to you is what do you have planned for your site, anything going to change... what do you see that you might change? So my reflection and my little bragging on people I have met over the course of last year include; Chris Sarandon [Actor], Bianca Barnett, Dave Sills, Frederik Wiedmann [Composer], Guy Maddin [Director], Imran Ahmad, Judgehydrogen, Nathan Johnson [Composer], Panu Aaltio [Composer], Roxy Gunn Project... the list goes on. Went to a handful of cool places; Days of the Dead and Kollision Con,... and met some cool sites like... HOLLYWOOD-SPY, THE GEEK TWINS, WRITING IN THE CROSSHAIRS....HEROPRESS, ZOMBIE BITES, LET'S GET OUT OF HERE, CAPES ON FILM... this list goes on... On a sad note, I found myself visiting less places do to a few things... one that damn captcha being on and my lack of extra time. For those who are regulars [You know who you are] here I wanted to thank you and to all the new people I hoped you come back.
We lost a lot of great people this year;
Neil Armstrong (1930 - 2012) Astronaut, Andy Griffith (1926 - 2012) Actor, Dick Clark (1929 - 2012) Entertainer, Larry Hagman (1931 - 2012) Actor, Andy Williams (1927 - 2012) Vocalist, Ernest Borgnine (1917 - 2012) Actor, Whitney Houston (1963 - 2012) Recording Artist, H. Schwarzkopf (1934 - 2012) United States Army General, Davy Jones (1945 - 2012) Entertainer, Phyllis Diller (1917 - 2012) Comedienne, Jack Klugman (1922 - 2012) Actor, Donna Summer (1948 - 2012) Vocalist, Robin Gibb (1949 - 2012) Vocalist, Mike Wallace (1918 - 2012) Journalist, Kitty Wells (1919 - 2012) Singer, George Lindsey (1928 - 2012) Actor, Thomas Kinkade (1958 - 2012) Artist, Earl Scruggs (1924 - 2012) Country, Sherman Hemsley (1938 - 2012) Actor, Sally Ride (1951 - 2012) American Astronaut, Ray Bradbury (1920 - 2012) Author, Marvin Hamlisch (1944 - 2012) Composer, Michael Duncan (1957 - 2012) Actor, Jonathan Frid (1924 - 2012) Actor, Richard Dawson (1932 - 2012) Entertainer, Charles Durning (1923 - 2012) American Actor, Carroll Shelby (1923 - 2012) Champion Auto Racer, Dave Brubeck (1920 - 2012) Composer, Hal David (1921 - 2012) Songwriter, Etta James (1938 - 2012) Singer, Chad Everett (1936 - 2012) Actor, Celeste Holm (1917 - 2012) Actress, Frank Cady (1915 - 2012) Actor, Ravi Shankar (1920 - 2012) Musician, Joe Paterno (1926 - 2012) Hall of Fame College Football Coach, Johnny Pesky (1919 - 2012) Professional baseball player, Richard Zanuck (1934 - 2012) Producer, Van Barfoot (1919 - 2012) World War II Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient, Peter Breck (1929 - 2012) Actor, Daniel Inouye (1924 - 2012) U.S. Senator, Jon Lord (1941 - 2012) Musician, Songwriter, Gary Carter (1954 - 2012) Major League Baseball Player, Gore Vidal (1925 - 2012) Author, Alex Karras (1935 - 2012) Professional Football Player, Chris Stevens (1960 - 2012) American diplomat and lawyer who served as the U.S., Vidal Sassoon (1928 - 2012) Hairstylist, William Windom (1923 - 2012) American Actor, Herbert Lom (1917 - 2012) Actor, Dinah Sheridan (1920 - 2012) Actress, Ben Gazzara (1930 - 2012) Actor, Gary Collins (1938 - 2012) Actor, Don Cornelius (1936 - 2012) Television Personality, Ann Rutherford (1917 - 2012) Actress, Don Grady (1944 - 2012) Actor, Musician, Bill Skowron (1930 - 2012) Major League Baseball Player, Buck Compton (1921 - 2012) Attorney, Scott McKenzie (1939 - 2012) Musician, Adam Yauch (1964 - 2012) Musician, Singer, Arthel Watson (1923 - 2012) Country, Ginny Tyler (1925 - 2012) Actress, Russell Means (1939 - 2012) Actor, Social Reformer, George McGovern (1922 - 2012) US Senator, Angelo Dundee (1921 - 2012) Hall of Fame Professional Boxing Figure, Dorothy McGuire (1928 - 2012) Vocalist, Janice Berenstain (1923 - 2012) Author, Illustrator, Warren Stevens (1919 - 2012) Actor, Ron Palillo (1949 - 2012) Television and Film Actor, Morgan Paull (1944 - 2012) Actor, Hector Camacho (1962 - 2012) Professional Boxer, James Farentino (1938 - 2012) Actor, Nora Ephron (1941 - 2012) Writer, Filmmaker, Audrey Young (1922 - 2012) Actress, Singer, Helen Brown (1922 - 2012) Author, Publisher, and Magazine Journalist, Kathryn Joosten (1939 - 2012) Actress... many to natural disasters, gun violence and sadness.
100,000 Views and the End Of The Year!! PEACE to you all... See you soon!
-Jeremy [Retro-Zombie]
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Wow, look at all those people gone. My word.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on all the hits. Woohoo.
ReplyDeleteHere's to a kick-butt 2013 :-)
A good way to close out the year. Best wishes for 2013!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the hits buddy!
ReplyDeletecongrats on the 100,000 visitors! Such a huge zombie army, my general!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations!! For two blogs, that is impressive.
ReplyDeleteAnd you've never failed to come visit me.
No changes at my site. What's working now is what I'll stick with, although maybe a little shorter. Never really paid attention to visits or hits though, I'd say I'd want to increase comments, but I can't keep up with what I get now! Need to crank out a few more clones...
Congrats on your numbers. It's always great to know that you are going up and not down. Hope you have a great 2013.
ReplyDeleteI'm having Megan Fox do a guest post on my blog ... then, I woke up! Great news about all your hits! Have a great new year!
ReplyDeletewow, you are a busy popular man!! congrats and thanks for paying homage to mr. duncan. he was awesome! new follower here, hello & eeehhhgghhh (zombie moan) :D
ReplyDeleteThose are fantastic numbers, Jeremy. I was rather surprised at my numbers this year too. Looking forward to seeing/talking/visiting in the next year!!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on those numbers. Now on to 200,000 visitors in 2013 :)
ReplyDeleteLosing Stormin' Norman was such a shock the other day. So many tragic losses this year.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your 100,000 views and Happy New Year!
Awesome:)best wishes.
ReplyDeleteI read that list in a magazine and realized how few I heard about at the time they passed away. Makes me feel a lot older.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the 100k and Happy New Year!
Chuck
Congratulations on the 100,000 views! As a newbie blogger still struggling to learn all the tricks to adding traffic (and OMG there's a lot of them) that number really encourages me. Maybe at some point you could be persuaded to create a post detailing what methods were the most effective for you in your march to 100k (and which ones ended up being the biggest wastes of time LOL). Here's to your continued success!
ReplyDeleteAs a follow-up to my previous comment: I've added you to the Blogroll on my own page, so you can probably expect another two or three views a month from my gargantuan stream of traffic. LOL
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