When Ashley Geelan started his Kinglake Ranges News blog, he made the big promise of a 24/7 news service for local people.
Now that Ashley no longer lives in Kinglake, but about 50km away in Reservoir, he seems to have lost all interest in the people of 3757 and 3763.
Perhaps he never had any real interest in Kinglake people in the first place, but the local people were simply a means to an end to keep on receiving free government money through his Austudy/Centrelink payments.
Ashley Geelan has not published an original piece of journalism about Kinglake people for months.
Heaven knows how long it has been since Ashley met a Kinglake person in Kinglake to properly prepare a news report.
The only images Ashley has used are those pinched from other websites.
Ashley made reference online this month that Kinglake was his “FORMER” home town.
Ashley’s piss-poor website is now just a ‘lift’ of a Sydney cartoonist’s work, and a pastiche of Council reports cut-and-pasted from press releases, and the false “By Ashley Geelan” byline usually added at the top.
Ashley Geelan has pretended for two years that he had tens of thousands of readers.
It is all a lie, of course.
At one stage early this year Ashley boasted that he had one million hits in a couple of months. (Cue audience laughter.)
“Millions of readers”, yet his Geelan Media page has less than 200 likes.
More of Ashley’s dodgy arithmetic.
Google Analytics says that Ashley’s website readership fell by 43.58 per cent in September, with just 11,900 hits for the entire month.
That’s 384 hits a day, mostly from Ashley himself.
Google Analytics says that Ashley’s website bounce rate is 91.03 per cent.
The ‘bounce rate’ is the percentage of visitors to a particular website who navigate away from the site after viewing only one page.
“A rising bounce rate is a sure sign that your homepage is boring or off-putting.”
Perhaps Ashley is back in jail?
Maybe in a drug-induced coma?
Or maybe the Geelan Lies website, and being called out on his many lies, has Ashley freaked out?
The Summerhill Hotel, nearby to his Reservoir home address, was unavailable for comment.