Friction

It would be foolish to believe that a consistent flow of new unique hits can be retained at a linear rate. Right now it would appear that the more populated countries have tuned into my websites, but even this has only served to accomplish 20% of my goal. Different strategies are going to have to be taken to attain hits from the lesser known entities on the country hit list.


What's up, Christmas Island & Cook Islands...?
I'm coming to get you.

Bangladesh, Slovenia, and Hungary

On October 17, 2007 Cheeriotown Photography received hits from three more entities:

1) Bangladesh
2) Slovenia
3) Hungary

7 more unique countries captured! (Oct 15)

Sovereign States Captured for Monday (October 15):

1) Columbia
2) Haiti
3) Panama
4) Romania
5) Serbia
6) Singapore
7) Taiwan

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4 more countries! (for October 14, 2007)

The new checks off of the hit list are:

1) Argentina
2) Brazil
3) Japan
4) Saudi Arabia
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Textlinkbank.com

One of the reasons as to why there has been a steady flow of new unique country hits has come from my recent discovery of a free realtime online textlink-based advertiser. I found this interesting support site when one of my users found me via this program. Essentially, this free web-based program spreads your website's URL to other users who are simultaneously doing the same. It even encourages that you step away while invoking this process of spamming various addresses.

The downside to this program is clear: the people who serve as your unique hits aren't likely to be interested in your website, especially not when its flashing by in less than a second. Nevertheless, I have found this program to fully suit my current needs towards achieving my goal. The users that have used Textlinkbank.com have come from all over the world. This website has served of late as a primary contributor for international hits.

Feel free to browse how it works at www.textlinkbank.com

6 more countries! (for October 13, 2007)

The new checks off of the hit list are:

1) Brunei Darussalam
2) Bulgaria
3) Indonesia
4) Portugal
5) Ireland
6) Poland
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The Beginning (30 Countries)

In the amount of time it's taken to put up this website, my previously established websites were able to compile quite a number of hits from foreign states. Personally, I saw no reason to disallow the inclusion of this statistic for mere the sake establishing a timely beginning. That being said, I compiled list of these countries and will check them off and label them as "pre-10/12/2007" on the hit list. This "pre-10/12/2007" country list is noted as follows:



Note: The blue entries are the unique countries highlighted to prevent duplications.




The websites that I run (other than this site) which are collecting hits to reach my world-hit goal are:

1) www.InvestingPennies.com - A financial advice column that specializes in penny stock investments.

2) Dont-need-it.com - A blog that looks at unnecessary, but fascinating & interesting vehicles.

3) Cheeriotown Photography - An archived photo gallery set up for the artistically creative pictures found on the Internet.

My Country To Do Checklist (244 entities)

So where to start....

Well, square one is to know what the goal is. Therefore, for the sake of being clear, I plan on using the following list taken off of wikipedia as my definition as to what "every sovereign state in the world" will be defined as. I plan on putting up a more concise checklist in the future on one of the side bars to which I'll be checking off as this site progresses. Feel free to come back every now & then & stick with me on this endeavor!


The future HIT list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries

Introduction - the World and the Internet

The World we live in is growing smaller by the second, accelerated at the high speed of wireless broadband and the expanding bandwidth capacity of an evolving network. The Internet has served as a catalyst of this globalization, offering the tool of connectivity in a world-wide web of information between peoples both near and far alike.

"My World Hits" will be a blog dedicated to my pursuit to be connected to Internet users across the span of the globe. It is my goal to have been linked & indirectly connected to at least one person from every sovereign state on Earth.

Thanks to a program called StatCounter, I will be able to track the locations of individuals who come across as hits on my websites. This particular website will be used to update my progress towards the achievement of this ambitious goal.