I promised that the other half of the blog would be a review of the prior week’s performance, and a discussion about why it performed well or not-so-well.
As you can see, blog traffic this week was up about 2677%. Can’t really complain about that. From now on I’ll be keeping logs in the sidebar for easy reference.
This isn’t necessarily a success story, unfortunately. The majority of this traffic came from digg.com during my Wednesday push at social media. I didn’t make the front page, but I did end up with a lot of views, and I don’t think many viewers were converted. I figure that if I do make the front page though, even if I only convert 1% of the viewers into subscribers, that’s a pretty substantial number, so I’ll make a stab again next Wednesday at hitting the front page of Digg / reddit.
PageRank also went from unlisted to 0, to 3 later on in the week. Interestingly, I’m not noticing any increase in people finding the page via Google. What I am noticing is that people are finding the page for the right keywords now as opposed to before when they were finding it for such keywords as “nazi suit.”1 I think the problem now is that I’m competing with a lot of very well-established webpages for the keywords that I’ve settled on, so it’s going to be an uphill battle unless I start to carve a niche within seo and blogging. I’ll have to ponder that for a while.
There are also two more techniques that I used this week to get this relatively large bump in traffic, but they’re the subject of two posts this week, so I don’t want to spoil it. Hopefully you’ll subscribe to my feed and check them out as soon as they’re posted so that you can consider using these (very helpful) techniques on your own blog.
- I had made a post complaining that the buttons on one of my suits looked like swastickas a while back. [↩]
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Wait, this isn’t a nazi suit at all (lol)
Hey, I found you off DIGG from the Matrix Online post that went popular. I cannot fathom who would still be playing that ancient game.
Good luck on this site man.
Heh, thanks for finding me serobill. I actually played MXO for a while and semi-enjoyed it. The players were actually one of the nicest groups in any MMO.
Thanks for the well-wishes!