MixTogether & Friends

Got back today,  so service will resume tomorrow.

I will be away this week, taking a holiday from blogging.

Service will resume next Monday 23rd August.

Best wishes to all readers.

Despite virtually no posting during July, MixTogether & Friends recorded one of its busiest months to date.

This is all due to search engine traffic generated by the criminal cases we are following. The murders of Asha Muneer, Aliza Mirza, Maleha Masud, Nasim Jamil and Saheel Ahmed are all covered on this blog. Other bloggers, notably those with a supposedly ‘Asian’ focus, have not spotted the significance of these cases.

Through search engine traffic we are reaching a unique audience of people from the communities where these crimes have taken place. We are reaching people from the local area of these crimes, and people who knew either the deceased or the accused. This means that MixTogether’s message is penetrating among the non-blogging public, something very few other blogs can say.

We will continue to employ this successful approach to blogging. Thanks as ever to all our readers and commenters.

After a long and extremely enjoyable hiatus, we are back in business here at MixTogether & Friends.

It feels good to be back. There’s a lot coming up in the latter half of this year- some of it has been covered in the news, some of it will involve MixTogether & Friends making the news…

First priority is the promised updates on the trials we are following: Aliza Mirza, Asha Muneer and Nasim Jamil. Stay tuned for those over the next few days.

For (very happy) personal reasons, I’m going to be out of blogging action for the next few weeks.

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Will be back in July, ready to open a WHOLE new chapter…

Top of my inbox when I re-emerge will be updates on the expected trial dates for all the cases we are following.

Take care till then.

Ash C out.

May was another record-breaking month for MixTogether & Friends.

By far the biggest draws to the site were the posts on Roshonara Choudhary and a link from Ian Dale to our story on Sunny Hundal’s ‘Bhangra Flashmob’ flop.

However, our coverage of cases such as Geeta Aulakh and Maleha Masud is generating consistent search traffic. The best thing about these visitors is that they are not bloggers, but regular members of the public.

Our analysis of these crimes is reaching deep within the communities where they took place.

Thanks as ever to all readers and commenters, we promise to keep improving the blog for you.

This has been a record-breaking month on MixTogether & Friends.

The previous record for visitors was in December, and that was driven by a single link from Iain Dale‘s website. This month we have smashed the December figure using only the power of search engines.

We are the only blog that has given any prominence to the stories concerning Aliza Mirza, Maleha Masud and Aamir Siddiqi. These stories- especially the murder of Aliza Mirza- have generated record traffic as our posts have consistently featured on page 1 of Google searches.

MixTogether is making its voice heard. We are now the UK’s leading blog on honour crimes and related social issues, and we will continue to speak out. With a high-profile readership, and press interest now starting to materialise off the back of our blog posts, we are setting the agenda for the next parliament.

April has already become the busiest and most successful month we have ever had on MixTogether & Friends.

Last December held the previous record with 2,113 unique visitors, but that was all due to one link from the mighty Iain Dale. This month’s traffic has been driven purely by Google searches, because we are the ONLY blog that has given prominent coverage to cases like Aliza Mirza. So-called ‘progressive’ blogs have stopped giving prominence to Asian social issues, leaving us as the only voice for some of the most vulnerable members of our society.

Full statistics to follow at the end of the month, but rest assured they are good.

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This month’s figures reflect the continued interest in posts concerning the BBC Asian Network, and the strong Google positioning our Asian Network posts have earned.

However the highest number of searches for a single issue have been for Geeta Aulakh. I am glad we have been able to offer news on the Geeta Aulakh trial that has not been picked up by the media.

Other popular searches were for: news on the Nasim Jamil trial; Rahala Noor (George Osborne’s Bangladeshi sister-in-law); and Anushka Asthana.

Thanks as ever to all readers and commenters, old and new.

Blogging was light in February, but numbers were boosted by our Google rank in searches for ‘BBC Asian Network’. We are second on the list, above Wikipedia! A little SEO goes a long way, and we would like to welcome new readers who have found the blog in recent days.

Thanks as always to all readers and commenters.

Stay tuned for more inside info on campaigns that are too radical for the progressive establishment.