Blog Traffic Doubled Yesterday
It definitely blew me away when I looked at my stats this morning. Each month I’ve been setting goals for unique visitors to my site and RSS feed subscriptions. Yesterday I gained some new subscribers and my stats more than doubled for the day. Maybe it has to do with the photo of Justin Timberlake playing with his junk, or with the many posts I’ve been churning out about Wordpress lately, I’m not sure.
Now that we’re on the topic of web stats, and since I haven’t posted about them in a while, they are on a steady rise each month. The beginning of every month I set a goal, higher than the last month’s stats, and try to get out as much content as I can, especially having to do with the posts that are most read on my blog. I also have to thank my referrers, led by Jay for the last 5 months straight, followed by Frozen Underwear and Our View On Superior. My own Blogger profile comes in fourth place, which could be linked from any comment I made on any Blogger hosted blog.
Other miscellaneous facts about my web stats:
So tell me, why is it that my stats have seemed to increase, but my comments have not? I still spend my time each day posting at least five or six comments on various blogs. Are my posts not open-ended enough? Not engaging enough? Interesting enough?
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Hmm.. Try to post comments when a blog entry provokes a thought. Sometimes my comments will be longer than some of my blog entries. (This is especially true when I’m commenting on Airline blogs.)
This isn’t to say that you’re not thought provoking, but often when you are it doesn’t lend itself to a text response, or it lends itself more to a discussion… To that end you might think of adding in RSS feeds for your comments, or an email service for your comments.
Initially, I thought these were kindof frivolous show off addons, but I’ve found them useful on Jay’s blog and on some other blogs that I follow. On the reworking of my site I’m thinking of adding them in.. Which is a little more of a feat because I’m on the old but enjoyable Movable Type 2.64..
perhaps you have a bunch of ’stalkers’; people who stop by to read but don’t post a comment. these sorts usually take a few months prior to becoming contributors.
I have the same question… I spike in blog hits but comments really don’t increase in number.
I have received a few comments the past several months from anonymous commenters explaining that just because people don’t comment does not mean they don’t enjoy what they are reading.
Hard to believe but I have my small PTBO fan club. The same goes for you… There has to be a reader than does not comment (for whatever reason).
I’m one of your silent readers, but not since long. Just keep on blogging, comments will follow like that.