Originally posted 2010-10-04 09:06:02. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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The Blogging Saga
It is maybe three years since
To Blog or not to blog?
I began blogging and over that time my vision has evolved. Originally, I was focused on politics and expressing my feelings about various events in the political world. It was all about me. I finally got so incensed and frankly burned out that I withdrew completely for a time. It was clear that I had no insights of a unique nature and was not adding to the general level of discourse. My following was among others with the same perspective. We were reinforcing out own points of view but not changing minds or adding to the dialogue. It was mildly satisfying but ultimately more work than I could justify and, of course, I didn’t build a big following. Continue reading
Originally posted 2009-11-04 10:01:10. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
On Comments and Gordon Ramsey
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The sky is falling
I have been agonizing here at RCB because the comments have fallen off. It was a great ride getting comments after months with hardly any. I was enjoying the attention and feeling good. I felt that it was proof that people liked me. Sigh! My reader count was up too. More people were stopping by and more were returning. I was feeling good about my effort. I concluded that what I was writing was interesting and people (some at least) were checking back to look for new content. My confidence was building. My enthusiasm growing but then it happened.
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Originally posted 2010-04-05 08:58:51. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Retirement Advice: Know what’s important.
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Hats off to Joan
I rail about the benefits of blogging for ‘mature’ people “Why do I rail?” you ask. If you have followed me for a while you know that it is just what I do but there is reasoning behind it. Blogging or reading blogs is a good way to get your thinking right or to understand the thinking of other people. If you don’t have anything to say yourself then you should be reading the blogs of people who do. I can’t tell you how much I have learned about life from connecting with other people through their blogs. Through their thoughtful posts I can learn how they approach life and make real decisions. I like to think that each of us should make our lives extraordinary (sometimes I say outrageous) but it is hard to do because society wants us to be responsible and cautious. I think that you need to do things that you will remember all your days with great pleasure instead of not doing them and regretting what you could have done. One of the bloggers I read regularly did just that and she shared her decision process with her readers. Joan looked at her choices and rejected conventional wisdom. Joan decided to be outrageous. Continue reading
Originally posted 2010-10-29 09:38:24. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Beating Your Stats
I have never used my stats as a measurement and encouragement in my blogging. This is just one more activity that wasn’t on my radar. There are several reasons. Probably the first and most important is that my readership was not growing. Who wants to measure something stable. A second reason is that I didn’t have any goals because I didn’t want the frustration of failing to achieve them. Well, one of the things I have learned recently is how to get readers to come at least once. A bigger trick is to have contents that make them come back again but it seems that I have some ability there as well. So, bottom line, my readership has been growing.
I have to credit James for this improvement but following James is not for the weak and flabby. He continually raises the bar.
So what are those stats?
I have been following my stats with StatCounter so lets see what the story was for yesterday, Saturday January 30. I had 94 visitors up from 82 the week before. 79 were fist time visitors and 15 were returning visitors. The stats for the week before were 68 and 14. I am not so sure where these visitors are coming from. I added StatPress to my blog to get the same stats that James is using but I can’t seem to find them. I am pleased with this growth, however, from whence it might be coming. I am even willing to set a goal for February to double those stats to 200 visitors and 30 returning.
But what about posts?
Now to go a step further and look at what readers like on RCB, the stats tell me that my most popular posts are these:
70 views for my reminiscences about our 1959 Chevrolet convertible
23 views for the top 10 reasons to post daily
22 views for my reminiscences about our 1950Chrvrolet pickup truck
Now I need some help.
I know that search engines are responsible for the visit to the car posts and I suspect that those are readers who don’t return regularly but I don’t honestly know. I don’t have comments from those posts so there is no reason to think that after arriving from Google, they stick around to sample the other posts but I don’t know. I need some help here. If anybody came to RCB through searches that led to my car posts and stuck around for some of the other items, let me know.
Otherwise, has anybody got any ideas about how to use those hits to entice readers to other posts and finally do my periodic nostalgia posts (cars mostly so far) add value to anyone?
I’ve taking up James challenge and revealing my stats so far. Now I need help from readers to know how to channel my efforts going forward.
Originally posted 2010-02-02 09:16:48. Republished by Blog Post Promoter