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Believe It Or Not, This Blog is Growing

September 28, 2006 by 8 Comments

conversionrater.gifI’ve never done any posts talking about the statistics of this blog because I’ve found that I’ve been turned off with certain bloggers who post about their blog stats a little bit too often.

However, this is a blog that talks about web analytics, so it seems as if it’s more relevant in this case. Anyway, I really started writing this blog actively in November of last year. It looks like it took about 11 months to crack the 500 subscriber mark for my RSS feed. This blog is focused in nature and doesn’t appeal to the widest blog reading audience, but I’m happy to have hit the 500 subscriber mark.

ConversionRater.com has also managed to fluctuate around in the top 100,000 of Alexa, but looking at the Alexa graph there’s never really been any improvement since I initially got it going.

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That’s not a good sign, but I’m encouraged by the RSS subscriber count continuing to grow. In Technorati it’s currently at 21.262, although at one point it had cracked the top 10,000.

One thing I didn’t do very well was set any solid goals for this blog when I launched it. It was more for the purpose of talking about things I’m interested in and participating in the medium. When it hits the one-year anniversary in November, I think ‘it’s time for some actionable goals I can work towards and have an incentive to reach by making them public.

Thanks for being a reader and participating, hopefully I can continue to improve the content.

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  • http://ohad-news.blogspot.com Ohad Gliksman

    Well done.
    There’s a lot of satisfaction to be gained when you figure out that many people are actually reading your blog :)

    Keep up the good word

  • http://alfamercado.com/blog Alfa

    Hi Pat,

    I’m one of your “students”, one of your RSS subscribers. Thanks for blogging about really insightful information about the online industry. I wish I could blog with just as much conviction as you’ve got.

    More power!

  • http://www.conversionrater.com/ Pat McCarthy

    Thanks Ohad.

    Thanks Alfa, glad to hear you are a subscriber. I’ll check out your blog!

  • http://www.offtheisland.com Cam

    I’m considering leaving, so you drop down below 500. Kidding! This is one of my few feeds that I actually come in to read every article instead of just skimming the headlines.

  • Robert

    I dunno how to get more RSS subscribers. I’ve got 50 now, after 6 months of running my videogame blog, but I’m already in the top 3,000 on Technorati

  • http://joannapenabickley.typepad.com/ Joanna Pena-Bickley

    People subscribe because it is smart. I glean knowledge from it everytime you post! Awesome work man!

  • http://www.conversionrater.com Pat McCarthy

    Robert, you’ve inspired me to make a blog post on just that subject!

    Thanks Joanna, I enjoy your blog as well.

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