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2021 REVIEW: MOST READ POSTS ON BOOMERPDX

December 31, 2021 by

2021 REVIEW

The 2021 review shows 14,941 readers visited here for 19,549 ‘views.’

It’s the second highest number of visitors after a decade of writing on BoomerPDX.

While big-time bloggers see these numbers as a good afternoon of traffic instead of a year, I’m still tickled to reach anyone anywhere.

The only disappointment in the 2021 review is no one fulfilled my biggest goal: Someone got vaccinated after visiting my blog.

I have modest goals. Here’s why:

7433 visitors clicked on a post about the status of the statue of David’s penis.

These were people from Reddit doing a hit and run on a blog about life. Written by another David.

It makes sense when the second most visited page is about naked guys lounging around in a public gym dressing room.

1188 visitors checked it out.

A more astute blogger might see a connection between the statue of David’s junk and a naked guy in a dressing room and make a pledge to pay more attention to both by lounging around naked in new places.

Sound promising? I’ll talk to my people.

Number three on the Top Ten list is about relationships that last through hard times.

If that’s you, congratulations on staying married and finding out what’s on the other side.

Search Engine Optimization For 2021 Review

2021 REVIEW

5812 visitors found BoomerPdx on search engines, 1173 came from Reddit, 1060 came from Facebook, 151 from twitter.

They all add up to forty-nine comments.

Where are visitors coming from? 15,048 come from America, 1065 from Canada, 609 from the United Kingdom.

One visitor came from Myanmar, one from Eritrea, one from Syria. And I’ve got no complaints. Thank you for finding any time to visit here.

The State Of Blogging For 2021 Review

2021 REVIEW

These are the states that visited BoomerPdx yesterday.

Oregon is the leader, and should be every day, followed by Virginia which doesn’t count because it’s a bot, then California and New York.

It shows a good coast to coast run with a few laggard states on the Atlantic side.

This is a map I enjoy because it shows how the West is better organized than the East with three states instead of the mess they’ve got on the right side.

No visitors from South Carolina and West Virginia? Should I write Senator Joe and Senator Lindsey a strongly worded letter? Can they read?

The Future Of Boomerpdx

The difference between a self-hosted blog and a free platform? Self-hosted costs money.

But hold on, I’m not rolling out a passive-aggressive ask for funding.

I’ll spend on a domain name and hosting on Bluehost and work to add value to the day.

Working several hours on research, then writing about what I’ve learned, is the plan. It’s been the plan all along. Ten years in.

Ten years of posting here has seen a few changes.

After 2696 posts and 1011 comments, I see a trend.

The first post I wrote here was about a young woman who left us too early.

‘One Day Too Soon’ came from a time before marriage, then after. It started on my first blog, deegeesbb.

One of the sweetest, kindest, women I’ve known was getting her life organized for the future when a bad man knocked on her door and did what bad men do.

He was a rapist who got out of prison, raped and murdered, then went back to prison. His was the face of evil.

It’s the face I look for in other evil men. They may not rape and murder their way through life, but their deeds of negligence leaves too many people vulnerable.

Look in the faces of those taking a stand against masks and vaccines. Their angry, twisted, expressions show a deeper problem than masks or vaccines.

They take a stand against science to seize control of the moment while hundreds of thousands fall ill and die. It’s not a rape/murder, but it’s a death sentence their performance act is promoting.

BoomerPdx Name Change

It’s been brought to my attention that anything Baby Boomer has a negative connotation. People see ‘boomer’ related content online and move along without clicking.

Who are these ‘people?’

There’s a wide swath of readers who have been exposed to Career Boomer, Toys Boomer, Accumulation Boomer, Republican Boomer, Religious Boomer, and have not come away duly impressed with what they saw.

After hearing Righteous Boomer, Investor Boomer, and Nanny Boomer, they can’t click past boomer content fast enough.

And who blames them? For those who know how things work, pulling any traffic is an uphill climb. The 2021 Review notices this.

For visitors scrolling for pertinent information to improve their lives, calm down, and feel a little better about their world, this is such a place.

Could I pull more visitors from the great void by posting on race, religion, and politics? Would more readers stop if I opined on why the Southeastern Conference of D1 college football seems to have mostly black players and mostly white fans?

The new year is full of possibilities and potential, yours and mine. I’ve got a few ideas, how about you?

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Comments

  1. Laurien says
    December 31, 2021 at 3:32 pm

    David you are a committed writing soul and I appreciate you tremendously. I am sorry I have not opened your blog in many months. I can assure you it isn’t because the content is not a good thoughtful read. It’s more about how I spend my M-F 40+ hours for work staring at a computer. When I turn my work computer off the thought of turning my Macintosh on to stare further into more digital virtual worlds is the last thing I want for myself and my brain no matter what I am staring at.

    It’s about balance. Where I put my energy – I am often at odds with it. Even this very moment I sit on my couch in front of the fire writing to you and I think this is taking me a long time to compose – should I go turn the compost, mop the floor, fold some laundry, text a friend, empty the dishwasher, check in with a kid…..never flipping ending. Then I say nope I want to write here to you. I recently read something that helped to soothe my modern day soul. It was on the blog called The Marginalian (comes out every Sunday morning ) – the particular featured writer Oliver Burkeman author of Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals wrote “Nobody in the history of humanity has ever achieved “work-life balance,” whatever that might be, and you certainly won’t get there by copying the “six things successful people do before 7:00 a.m.” The day will never arrive when you finally have everything under control — when the flood of emails has been contained; when your to-do lists have stopped getting longer; when you’re meeting all your obligations at work and in your home life.” NEVER will this happen! I’m going to get the book. 🙂

    Thank you Oliver Burkeman – I knew it was impossible to balance work and life.

    David, when I make the time or take the time to read your blog you always broaden my perspective and I appreciate that because perspective broadening is important. In 2021 I learned to quiet my mind even more, to look to the peaceful way, to love and be love more than not. In 2022 I will do more of the same – it takes practice to do it well. And I will also, friend David, continue to support your blog by reading your posts as often as I can. Your blog might be called A Guarantor Read – creatively written by a human that does his very best to guarantee an exceptional read full of potential and possibility 365 days of the year. Thank you David!

    Happy New Year!

    • David Gillaspie says
      January 1, 2022 at 9:20 am

      Dear Laurien,

      One writer to another: Great comment. There’s a missing part too many writers skip, and that’d getting stuff down on the page. A comment like yours is blog-worthy by itself.

      What I think makes my work different than what I read from other online content people is the self indulgence of audience familiarity. No one needs me to tell them the possibilities of doing new work on a regular basis. You can tell me if I’m hitting the mark now and then, but I don’t castigate readers for their engagement.

      Blog advice and writing advice is an industry unto itself, but not one I engage in. Here’s why: Wife and I were talking about an ideal 40th birthday present back in the day. Forty years old has always had an image to me of mid-life crisis where a fat man buys a new car and finds a new girlfriend that looks good cruising around. But I was a van man who liked his wife..

      As a compromise we both went to the guitar store, Tigard Music, and looked at Strats. One of them was a color called ‘Midnight Wine.’ It was purple, like Prince. She called it “the eggplant guitar” which amused the staff. Over the time it took to decide on the eggplant guitar, or something more traditional, I talked music with one of the sales guys. The more we talked, the more often he said, “You just don’t get it, do you?”

      What was I supposed to get? How to integrate a shuffle into a song without it being what the song was about. Rhythm lead guitar? So I worked it out to where things did fit with the band I was in. Since then I’ve heard warnings and advice that fit most aspects of life. Like, “The space between playing an easy piece of music and an impossible piece is called ‘practice.’ That one cracks me up.

      This is even better: “When I turned thirty I badly wanted to play guitar. Now twenty years later I play guitar badly.”

      What’s it mean? I think it means writing down a few lines in a notebook and after a time find a way to link them together. Right now I’m re-reading Catch-22. It’s got a new preface by Joseph Heller talking about the resistance his book faced. It wasn’t a novel, it wasn’t this, wasn’t that. What it is is a connection between events and attitudes linked together through the eyes of the hero, Yossarian.

      1. Story
      2. Commentary
      3. Circle back to story
      4. Repeat

      The End.

      What do you think?