Latex tutorials
I’m pretty happy with my Getting to Grips with Latex tutorials. I know they’ve gone down well because I get plenty of feedback from readers telling me so. But every now and then, I like to check how they are doing in the Google-sphere. If you type “latex tutorials” into Google, you get:
I come 2nd! Woo hoo! Now, I know it’s not first, but I don’t reasonably expect to leapfrog the Tex Users’ Group site. So, I’m pretty chuffed because most people doing a Google search at least sees the top few entries before they decided to click. The other reason I’m pretty happy is because I’m a new kid on the block when it comes to Latex guides. Latex has been out for decades and there’s no shortage of sites to help users.
An interesting aside is that the entry that appears on the Google results page says “Latex tutorials taking you from the very basics towards more advanced topics. Clear presentation and narrative flow.” But, that content doesn’t appear in my site. This must be what others have written about them! B)
I keep a little counter on the main page (which is basically a contents page). In the past 20 months, I’ve had over 130,000 hits on that single page alone, and I’m now at a rate of 10,000 hits per month.