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Re: Frequency of posting and traffic

[GEEKS ARE SEXY] Tech. News — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:37:46 -0000

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.

Re: Frequency of posting and traffic

Phil Crissman — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 11:20:34 -0000

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... ;-)

Re: Frequency of posting and traffic

mrben — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 04:12:05 -0000

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 ;)