Well, that really struck a chord, apparently. When I checked the stats at my website Tuesday AM, just like I always do, I figured I'd see an average tally. New visitors to the pccuisine.com website average maybe 350 or so per day, and that's about what I expected again.
I certainly didn't expect to discover that I'd had 2,700 visitors the day before!! I was so excited! I had so many happy thoughts, of how I'd finally found an audience- just average people looking for one really good soup recipe (as opposed to the more selective audience that wants a hundred different options). More happy thoughts about how a lot of people must have been excited to be hearing from a "pro" in the culinary field, eager to read up on this "Jennifer Cote" person. Visions of the name "The New Deli" becoming synonymous with all that is upcoming and cool: Going Green, Going Local, Getting Back to Whole Food Ingredients, Etc. Etc...
Well, I then discovered, written in the fine print for MSN's subscribers, that a person wasn't really supposed to post comments that mentioned links to other pages. Ah, but of course. MSN's Delish, and many other sites, prefer to have their readers stay on their pages, so they can make their income off the revenue generated by each page view. They don't want anyone pointing in any other directions!
By today, I'd realized that my comment on Creamy Potato Swiss Soup had in fact been removed. Sigh. I guess I shall now wallow, like so many other cooks out there trying to make a name for themselves, in the obscurity of the massive, giant pool, very full of very little fish (like me)...
But it was fun while it lasted :)
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