Review

My 2025 year to date has been really tough due to other commitments.  However, the total viewing figures at 30th June are not bad considering where I started.  

To be honest, I’m still flabbergasted by reaching one million views in 2018, and then reach 2 million in December 2020.  I’m over two-thirds of the way to 3 million at 1 Jul 2025. It just happened, there wasn’t a plan!  I’m grateful for every single view though.

2025 has been a challenging year, mainly because I’ve had a lot of holidays plus I have a major family commitment which is not looking to be resolved in the near future.    That said, the Facebook algorithm does not help! A change in the Facebook page algorithms has affected many ‘pages’ reducing their scope …… the more cynical might say it was done to drive advertising revenue out of these ‘pages’ but Facebook misses the point that some pages are just trying to help others at no or little cost!    It’s important that you add all my Facebook pages to your favourites list, that will help get around the algorithm.

Facebook is the most popular route to read my blogs so please add these 3 pages to  your favourites list. 

1. My page “Neuroendocrine Cancer” was badly hit by the Facebook algorithm change but things are slowly improving in 2025 but too late to rescue the year from my other commitments.
2. 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. This page is taking a hit while I resolve the page above.
3. My relatively new awareness page World Neuroendocrine Cancer Day is growing steadily and posts are often supported more than my much larger page.  But it needs growth (more followers).

Despite the difficulties above, I still managed 105,000 blog views in the first half of the year of 2025, but that is lower than in 2024.  The differences between this half year figure and last years, means that I am unlikely to match 2024 figures unless I have an explosion of views. You can help, ask me how.   

If you’re reading this, thanks for supporting me in the first half of 2025, I really need you for the second half!