First Quarter Statistics
I guess now would be a good time to review the first quarter of activity here at Virginia Breeze. My motivation for blogging is low. Maybe it is spring fever. Maybe it’s the fact that everyone has gone away. I don’t know. But we can put some figures up here for the record and then go do something else. The woodworking shop is calling me.
First of all I would like to share with you a neat and very simple utility I just found for taking screen shots. All you do is right click on take a photo which immediately is sent to Picasa or wherever in JPG form. You can’t ask for better service than that.
And here are all the funny figures courtesy of Google. If I could only look at one stat it would be Google’s top content. Because it tells me what readers are interesting in seeing. And, hopefully, if I am not feeling too stupid when I read this info I will immediately try and create something else that is in some way similar to something at the top of this list.
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Here are the stats from the first quarter. They are nothing to write home about as you can see. Return visits are way too low. The bounce rate is about fifty percent. Time on page is under two minutes.
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And here are the stats from the last thirty days. These tell me that readership has gone up but the amount of time each reader spends here on average has gone down. Sometimes I think that those two things just go together.
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So after about nine months of blogging this is what has happened. A lot of the enthusiasm for blogging has gone out the window. But the need to blog is still with us. And I know much more about how to do it. As we all do if we continue to practice.
Will I continue to do it? A month ago I would have said definitely “yes”. Now I am not so sure. Right now the only readers commenting are fans of Steph Jones, Chris Brown and Rhianna. I don’t even know who Rhianna is. Apparently they are friend’s of Jordin.
I wouldn’t mind except that their comments go like this one from anonymous. . .
“honestly stephan was an enyce model back when i met him here in nyc… he’s not 24-25 he’s got an 8year old daughter check it out and use to roll with Joe the singer. lol its so funny how he embellishes his history… cracker!”
Fascinating.
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It’s been quiet everywher David, hang in there….
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How can I have the traffic like yours? please tell me, can I success like you?
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David - you are making me smile because your stats look amazing to me! Granted I have only been blogging for 3 months but my stats are no where near yours. I mean you have had over 20,000 people see your site - that accoutns for something big! I would be pretty proud if I were you even with the bounce rate and all
If I may offer some advice:
we all have our different reasons for blogging but no matter what you do, it takes time to build up a decent network, at least a good year from what I hear.
Besides that in a review I told you to write about what you are passionate about so let me expand on that a little.
Any blog simply ran for money is destined to fail, because no matter what you do it will never seem like enough….enough readers, money generated, etc. If on the other hand you genuinely like blogging I urge you to stay with it because you do have a good thing going.
Besides writing about what you are passionate about, try to pick topics that do contribute to the greater good - I have no doubt that in that you will have great satisfaction if nothing else…but i have a feeling all else will come too. So think of what you are passionate about and how it can be used to help others with something, anything….
And if nothing else see it as your own personal clip board, where you get to share your thoughts with the universe. Of course only continue if it is giving you satisfaction, if not definitely move on to something else. Pretend no one is reading and this is you just sharing your thoughts, you never know …amazing things might happen.
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Thanks Ron.
Thanks Evita. This is the best comment I have ever gotten from anyone.