Review

In 2022, my pet project (my blog) hit 2 million views in early November – that was a major boost.  It takes 3-4 years to get a million hits based on current performance.  To be honest, I’m still flabbergasted by reaching one million in 2018. It just kinda happened!  I am grateful for every single view. 

2022 was a challenging year, mainly because the pandemic had some latent impact on my social media activity and also in terms of growth.  2020 and 2021 were slower than normal but 2022 has seen some pickup.  Some of it is due to less writing but much is due to a change in Facebook algorithms which affected many ‘pages’ reducing their scope (the more cynical might say it was done to drive advertising revenue but …….).   

2022 was also challenging as Chris and I both succumbed to Covid after dodging it since March 2020.  I guess it was bound to happen at some point, it was a tough couple of weeks.  Read about my experience by clicking here.  The impact of the pandemic also leaked into my surveillance scans and doctors are on the lookout for the effects of covid on surveillance scans causing imperfections on both nuclear PETs and CT.  Includes the after-effects of the infection. In my own case, both issues were found as the vaccine was causing reactive nodes to show, and after my infection, they spotted some ground glass opacity (GGO) on my lungs, a new phenomenon they now deal with. It was spotted on my annual surveillance CT and resulted in a repeat to check it was clearing up (it did).  Read about GGO here and for scan imperfections caused by vaccines, read here.

My page “Neuroendocrine Cancer” was badly hit by the Facebook algorithm change but things are slowly improving. There is a long way to go still as I can’t work out whether the page is less supported, or the algorithm doesn’t work for the current content.  Using Facebook ads to improve hits has turned out to be hit-and-miss. I’m reviewing that. 

Running my “Ronny Allan” Facebook page takes a lot of effort, but I get a lot of satisfaction from doing it (and the doing the travelling that supports it!).  I am using a slightly different type of page for this, so perhaps the algorithm is less sensitive or people just like the stuff I post there more than my standard blogs!  A work in progress to figure it all out. 

My new awareness page World Neuroendocrine Cancer Day is growing steadily but slower than I had initially hoped.

Despite the difficulties above, I still managed 271,963 blog views in the year 2022, higher than in 2021.  The gap would have been bigger had I been able to work throughout my C-19 infection. 

Looking forward to serving you in 2023!