Weakness in South America

March 5th, 2008 | 2 Comments | Posted in Personal

The Google visitors map I published recently here shows that this blog has little following in South America or Russia.

Most readers are from Australia, with a healthy number in North America, some in Europe (but none in Iceland), a few in Africa and a handful in Asia.

I have had at least one reader from Brazil, but that’s it for South America. I don’t expect to turn that around given my lack of Portuguese or Spanish, little interest in soccer and zero references to that continent until now.

The poor result in Russia surprises me a little. I once wrote about the Aral Sea disaster, but that’s in Kazakhstan.

I’ll have to think of something to rope in the Russians.

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2 Responses to “Weakness in South America”

Jermayn Parker Says:
March 6th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
How did you get these lives stats? Its interesting and a nice feature..

Jermayn Parker’s last blog post..Analysis of Mike Sheahan’s top 50 all time players
Michael Says:
March 6th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Yes, I should have explained. I’m using the WP Guestmap plugin. There are a number of display options.

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