Bondage Awards 2012 and annual report

You may remember that LikeRa.com was nominated in three categories. Here’s the result :

bondageAwards_3rdbondageAwards_honorable_mentionBest bondage How-To: 3d place
Best bondage blog: 7th place
Best free bondage web-site: no results yet

Thanks to all who voted! Without your support it could not have happened!

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Fetish industry and fetish trends


Updated on Jan 20, 2012 @ 02:07:

See more trends and comments below. What is your forecast and why?

Updated on Mar 26, 2011 @ 02:05:
I completely forgot about this related article and discussion: The future of (self-)bondage-fetish-wear. Will it ever exist?

Posted on Mar 21, 2011 @ 0:44:
Yesterday, me and my wife have been to Demask in Amsterdam to repair my favourite pewter pearl sheen latex leotard (I discovered a 1cm hole in the armpit area). I love rubber shops. I love the smell of latex, love to touch or grab the sleeky springy oily material.. Oh, I begin to feel light-headed just by thinking of that…

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10,000,000+ blog post views!

Statistics is an interesting thing. It shows some raw figures, but the interpretation depends on the interpreter and the goals 😉

So, some raw facts about the blog (only the blog, no forum or other static content from the site!):

  • The first Blog post was made on July 28, 2006
  • Blog post views are counted since August 2007
  • The busiest month was July 2011 (450,567 views)
  • The busiest day was Jan 02, 2012 (21,727 views)
  • The total counted post views is 10,025,678

What can I say… Thanks all for visiting! Recently I did not have much time to update the site and mostly was struggling with technical issues, but now let’s see if we can reach 1,000,000 monthly page views (globally). Current record is 921,233 page views (May 2011).

2000 registered users in the forum!

pantyhose encasement and mummificationYes, we have 2000 registered users in the forum! While I do understand that most users are coming for pictures, it would be nice to raise the percentage of actively participating and contributing colleagues to at least 2%.

The most active threads at the moment:

Men in pantyhose
Swimming in pantyhose
Swimming in latex
Men in swimsuits and leotards
Nosehooks
Bound men in feminine clothes and femdom fetish art
Pantyhose encasement bondage

Post #1000!!!

This is my blog post number 1000! Let’s count them all:

  • 1000 blog posts (and 4795 uploaded images)
  • 386 comments
  • 37 blog pages
  • 1,162 forum posts (and 466 uploaded images)
  • 4000+ posts in all iterations of the tights for men forum (3457 on the last version)
  • 500+ posts in various bondage forums
  • + countless comments here, there and everywhere

Close to 10,000! I hope someone found them useful or at least entertaining. So all my efforts are not in vain 😉

Statistics for the last 365 days

Collecting statistics using multiple counters in a constantly changing environment consisting of several technologies is not trivial. But the average values can be roughly assessed. So, this is what we have for the last 365 days (since 02 Sep 2006):
Pageviews: 1,800,000
Unique Visitors: 155,000
Blocked SPAM: 8600 msgs

Top 10 countries:

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Selfbondage trend in Google

Google has recently added the ability to sneak into what people are looking for. This new tool is called Google trends. Is self-bondage getting more popular? Or vice versa? Let’s have a look:


Unfortunately not. According to Google, the interest to “selfbondage”, “self-bondage” or “self bondage” has been declining. The top10 of the countries looking for these words looks very surprising:

  1. Germany
  2. Czech Republic
  3. Denmark
  4. Russia
  5. Austria
  6. Switzerland
  7. Netherlands
  8. United Kingdom
  9. Norway
  10. Sweden

Where’s the US? My logs show that 40% of all hits come from the States and 70% visitors use Google. How trustful is Google’s statistics? Probably they do not have to search for selfbondage, they already know the proper places 🙂

Another interesting thing is that Europeans prefer to search for “selfbondage”, while Americans favor “self bondage”. The volume of “self-bondage” queries is negligible and can not be found in the Google Trend.

Here you can find the original report.