I'm sort of in the same boat. New and fresh content = traffic. I blog about food alot when on duty for Uncle Sam. I am also watching traffic as post frequency increases. Not like Google ads are ever going to pay the rent, but it's interesting to track the uptick. Later!
mrben
· 3 years ago
I wonder how many of your readers do what I do - follow your RSS feed via Firefox live bookmarks (or similar), and thus only visit the page when you have posted?
I check the feed every weekday morning, and I visit when there are 1 or more new posts, but I presume you don't count the RSS hits ;)
Phil Crissman
· 3 years ago
I'm generally using Google analytics to track activity, and I don't believe that it counts RSS hits, no.
I think you're probably right -- many people probably are visiting only after a post -- so increased hits due to more frequent posting probably does not actually mean more readers -- just more visits.
Good point. I think I'll try my experiment anyways (assuming I can find the time to do all this hypothetical extra posting!) just to see the stats... ;-)
[GEEKS ARE SEXY] Tech. News
· 3 years ago
Yeah, loosing readers is A LOT easier then gaining a few ones. It takes months to build a readership, and only a few weeks to loose them all. Personally, I started all of this for fun, but now, I do it out of duty (and fun also). Adsense revenue have been pretty good, and I want it to keep growing.
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I check the feed every weekday morning, and I visit when there are 1 or more new posts, but I presume you don't count the RSS hits ;)
I think you're probably right -- many people probably are visiting only after a post -- so increased hits due to more frequent posting probably does not actually mean more readers -- just more visits.
Good point. I think I'll try my experiment anyways (assuming I can find the time to do all this hypothetical extra posting!) just to see the stats... ;-)