Statistical Sample/ Words Of Encouragement For Young Bloggers /Part I
Table of contents for Writing About Blogging
- Statistical Sample/ Words Of Encouragement For Young Bloggers /Part I
- Words Of Encouragement For The Long Distance Blog Runner/Part II
- What Are Major Project Milestones? / Ten Thousand Views This Month
- Writing A Note To Someone/ Rocking Ruminations
- Search Engine Optimization/ From Seattle to Boston
I recently started using statistics in an attempt to find out how many actual regular readers I have. I have a few courageous regular readers who actually comment here. So I am not talking about them. I am talking about the hypothetical regular readers who are here for the duration but can think of nothing to say.
And I can understand that. I go places and read too. I would like to comment but my mind is not up to it. It’s in surfing mode and you don’t use your rational mind when you surf. You use your relaxed mind. Your bag of tricks is up there and he’s awake. But he’s not working. He’s sitting in one of those chairs you can find at The Sharper Image store. It has ten different vibrators in it plus stereo speakers on each side.
So how does the young blogger who may be 94 years old but has only been blogging for six months deal with this situation without becoming discouraged? Well he or she could hire readers. I do that and presently I am worried because they want to form a union. Clearly they need to use their relaxed minds more and stay away from their rational minds. Or my blogging sisters and brothers could go to Google Analytics and start tracking their visitors and discerning their longterm intentions. In a statistical example from my photoblog PhotoLinkLove.com we will see shortly how this may be working.
I spend very little time on this blog and mainly just post a few of my best photos here every day. And in response maybe ten or fifteen readers come by to look at them. At least that is what I thought was happening. But Google presents a slightly different picture.
And I am not disturbed by this situation or the apparent lack of growth. I don’t have much invested here and am just happy that a few folks are enjoying these photos.
But I am a curious person and so would like to know what is happening here. Is any growth happening? It has only been around for about ten weeks. Can Google tell me something about it? I had a garden as a young boy and would come out every day to see if something had happened. It was like watching grass grow only a little more interesting.
And that is what we will discuss next time since we are just about out of time boys and girls. Didn’t you used to hate it when the guy or girl on the tube used to say that! Captain Kangaroo used to say that and look what happened to him!
Until next time Buckaroos!
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I use Google Analytics and find it invaluable for traffic stats. It appears that although I get over 50 visits most days, the visitors usually don’t leave comments. But I found that the best way to get comments is to comment on other peoples blogs! This is beneficial to both parties, and although it doesn’t drive up your traffic by much, it does the comments.
Hi David. I have just started using Google and I enjoy their stat program also. You can do some things with them that I havent been able to do elsewhere. Regarding comments it just seems to me that it is difficult to start a conversation with someone. But once the ice is broken its a lot easier.