The folks from WordPress do provide some nice statistics, and I must admit I do look at it frequently to see who´s looking for what…

There have been over 15000 views from visitors coming from 65 countries – that´s still some way from world domination 🙂 ,
but I continue to be amazed by the reach of this tool called the internet…

There is some statistics at what people look at when they´ve reached my blog, unsurprisingly the home page is at the top, being the main landing page.
Almost 600 people (or some repeatedly…) wanted to know a little bit about me, but clearly the most visited ammonite post by far is the one about

the Arnioceras species – it is a very popular ammonite, being sold often on auction websites, and I hope I could provide some help in identifying them.

Of course it does also interest me what people look for when they reach my blog through the use of search engines.

The top 20 list tells me that some people use search engines as a bookmark replacement (it´s andysfossils.com, guys ;-)), but also

that Holderness ammonites and again Arnioceras are very popular topics. Some Amaltheus species, Amauroceras, Gagaticeras also feature highly
and I think I´ve covered these well; Psiloceras, Aegoceras, Pleuroceras are still to be done and I know you´re waiting for those probably just as
much as for the second part of the Dactylioceras post (allthough there most probably will be an intermediate step before I cover the upper liassic Dactylioceratidae).

Somewhat unintentionally (but in hindsight not unwelcome), the wants lists do create some kind of an attraction point for the blog since they provide a search engine

target for all the rare ammonites that I still would like to photograph.

 

Some people have asked for the estimated completion of the book, I´m hoping to complete it in 2014, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of our first visit

to Robin Hoods Bay. It´s still some way to go, I´m currently working on getting my layout template finished in Adobe Indesign, so that I can truly begin writing pages of the book.

 

AndyS