Believe It Or Not, This Blog is Growing
September 28th, 2006
I’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.
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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Entry Filed under: Blogging, Random, Web Analytics
8 Comments Add your own
1. Ohad Gliksman | September 28th, 2006 at 1:38 am
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
2. Alfa | September 28th, 2006 at 6:49 am
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!
3. Pat McCarthy | September 28th, 2006 at 7:10 am
Thanks Ohad.
Thanks Alfa, glad to hear you are a subscriber. I’ll check out your blog!
4. Cam | September 28th, 2006 at 1:07 pm
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.
5. Robert | September 28th, 2006 at 2:53 pm
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
6. Joanna Pena-Bickley | September 28th, 2006 at 7:33 pm
People subscribe because it is smart. I glean knowledge from it everytime you post! Awesome work man!
7. Pat McCarthy | September 28th, 2006 at 8:51 pm
Robert, you’ve inspired me to make a blog post on just that subject!
Thanks Joanna, I enjoy your blog as well.
8. Ohad's Internet News&hellip | September 29th, 2006 at 7:59 am
How to get more RSS subscribers
Random visitors to my blog are nice but getting a new RSS subscriber to my feed is great. I feel that this is truly the most important parameter of a blog, how many people are monitoring it for new po…
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