{"id":74,"date":"2008-05-14T13:04:39","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T17:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/?p=74"},"modified":"2008-07-04T14:53:05","modified_gmt":"2008-07-04T18:53:05","slug":"over-10000-sold-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/over-10000-sold-this-month","title":{"rendered":"Over 10,000 Sold (this Month)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stepping back from the subject of Kirkbrides a little, I just wanted to announce that KirkbrideBuildings.com passed a pretty significant milestone today. As of this morning, the site had 10,276 unique visitors this month. That may be chicken feed to popular sites getting ten times that many visitors a day, but considering KB.com&#8217;s average for the past few years has been around 5000 uniques a month, it&#8217;s pretty amazing.<\/p>\n<p>In March the site crossed over the 7000 unique visitors mark for the first time, and then for a second time in April. But May has seen an even bigger increase and the site will likely get over 12,000 uniques by the end of the month.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The numbers will move back down in June though I&#8217;m sure. Part of the surge was due to the serendipitous convergence of an architecture magazine article*, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/2008\/04\">Weston <em>Ghost Hunters<\/em> episode<\/a> on the last night of April, and to a reasonably high profile link on Digg (thank you, MuddyMudskipper). But even with the inevitable drop, the number of visitors should continue to grow from its earlier average.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully that means more awareness about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/buildings\/\" title=\"Kirkbride Asylums in the United States\">Kirkbride buildings<\/a> and an even better chance that they&#8217;ll be appreciated and preserved. I like to think this site will help in that regard in some small way. Maybe it has already since it&#8217;s been around for several years, but it&#8217;s been so small and insular that it&#8217;s direct influence isn&#8217;t very wide-ranging. I&#8217;m kicking myself now for essentially leaving it adrift for the past few years&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, at the risk of sounding like I take this too seriously, I should thank you all for visiting the site. Thank you! Please come again:)<\/p>\n<p><small>*The article by the way gets a few things wrong. Not sure how that happened. It may have been my fault. It&#8217;s nothing that important though.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stepping back from the subject of Kirkbrides a little, I just wanted to announce that KirkbrideBuildings.com passed a pretty significant milestone today. As of this morning, the site had 10,276 unique visitors this month. That may be chicken feed to popular sites getting ten times that many visitors a day, but considering KB.com&#8217;s average for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[166,26],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-sites","tag-statistics","tag-web-site"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}