How many people visit MetsBlog?

Matt Cerrone (he’s the guy who runs MetsBlog) has a non-Mets site MattCerrone.com which I also check out regularly.

Today Matt shared his traffic statistics for MetsBlog. Wowza.   Let’s just say Mets Police has slightly fewer readers.   MetsBlog’s over 100,000 pageviews a day..let me round down to 100k…365 days a year…wow that’s a crazy crazy number.

Me in case you’re wondering….I’m not actually sure.  I look at various sites that tell me different things…on the low end I’m just over half a million views for the year, but another site tells me 1.6 million….

…but you read it, the Mets read it, and I like doing it.  That’s the end all.   I’m fortunate to have the infamous “real job” and while I like money this is more or less a hobby or a timekiller.  I made $30 last month!   I just like doing this.

The reason Matt shared his traffic numbers was to illustrate the pop in traffic because of the Omar and Jerry firings. (look)

I mentioned a few days ago that my personal traffic was down comparing September 2010 to 2009…a sign of me either being boring or Mets fan apathy.   So I looked up my own numbers and while nothing crazy, yep yesterday was up.   Today’s kind of meh but I didn’t post that much after 9am…high page views, normal visitors.  Who knows.

Unfortunately for all of us, Mets News will likely get quiet as we enjoy some Yankees talk for the next week or two.

Sometimes people ask me about Matt.  Smart guy.  We’ve had lunch I think three times now, might be four.   He “gets it” and sees the angles.  I really dig mattcerrone.com and hope he writes more over there.

Not sure what this post was about but that’s what was on my mind.  I spent two hours tweaking the blog design and not finding anything I liked so I put almost everything back the way it was.