I haven’t posted in several weeks.
No posts. No links. Nothing new.
Yet my Feedburner subscriptions, page views, and
unique visitors each decreased by less than 8%. Why?
The biggest reason: Google (or more accurately,
search).
Roughly 85% of my traffic on a weekly basis is
from search. For example, I wrote a post on passive
aggressive behavior more than a year ago and it still gets hits
every day.
The remaining traffic is from community. After years of meeting people, making
friends, and meeting colleagues, some people come by to check in and sometimes to
say hello.
Now I don’t write for the statistics. I like to share experiences, information, and
observations and then hear what others have to say. I do this to learn.
For me it’s reassuring that my stats stayed pretty
constant. It showed me that 2 years of
effort (my blogging anniversary is February 6th) has paid off with
some success in the search engines and, much more important, a network of fine friends
and colleagues.
But I wonder…
Do you know how people find you on the web? Do you know what they’re looking for?
Why are you in it? Is it paying off?
It’s nice to be back.
Forgive me if I’m a little rusty…
Hello Eric-
Nice to see you!
Ann
Ann,
It’s great to have you back! I look forward to more great conversations!
H Mary!
It is interesting that there’s no such thing as a landing page anymore and that content never dies! Everyone gets to witness our learning process and evolution as we get more information and change our minds!
Ann
PS: Yes, I’m definitely planning to go to SOBCon.
That’s the good news/bad news about the Web – nothing ever dies. I still get traffic and comments on posts I wrote over a year ago. There’s no such thing as a “landing” or home page these days. People come at ya from everywhere.
(P.S. Are you gong to SOBCon ’08? It’s on my calendar.)
LOL Ann
A little??? At the moment it feels like all I do is prioritising – over and over again 😉
(So nothing gets done, the price of being constantly interrupted by clients 😉 )
Oh, well, a new month is almost here.
Karin H.
Hi Karin!
Nice to “see” you again and Happy New Year to you as well.
The way I look at it, into everyone’s life a little prioritization must fall!!
Ann
Hi Ann
Happy New Year 😉
Know the feeling of amazement, am in the same ‘predicament’ as you, too busy with business to write my blog regularly but the ‘momentum’ made in the year before is keeping the subscribed numbers up.
Besides giving a nice feeling it also works on the ‘guilt’ a bit: have to make time to write soon!
Karin H. (Keep It Simple Sweetheart, specially in business)