Usage Statistics
Over at Successful Blog, Liz mentions "One truth about blogging is that you can never know for sure where a post might take you." I thought I'd comment here, because I recently discovered how true that is.
It all started not only with my May 10 entry on Links, but with the discovery of Successful Blog. When I discovered it, I did what I always do when I find something interesting; I added it to Bloglines. This, in turn, caused it to show up in my blogroll (which displays the 20 most recently updated blogs that I read through Bloglines via a PHP script I hacked together). Liz graciously acknowledged her addition to my blogroll and promptly heaped a ton of much-appreciated attention on that May 10 post.
In case you're wondering where I'm going with this ramble, I was starting to wonder too. But to get back on track, after the initial flury of hits to the site and everything has calmed back down (I was up to 10 times normal trafic for awhile!), it appears that my readership has doubled! Looks like I had excellent timing for the site redesign :)
It all started not only with my May 10 entry on Links, but with the discovery of Successful Blog. When I discovered it, I did what I always do when I find something interesting; I added it to Bloglines. This, in turn, caused it to show up in my blogroll (which displays the 20 most recently updated blogs that I read through Bloglines via a PHP script I hacked together). Liz graciously acknowledged her addition to my blogroll and promptly heaped a ton of much-appreciated attention on that May 10 post.
In case you're wondering where I'm going with this ramble, I was starting to wonder too. But to get back on track, after the initial flury of hits to the site and everything has calmed back down (I was up to 10 times normal trafic for awhile!), it appears that my readership has doubled! Looks like I had excellent timing for the site redesign :)
Hey Rod,
If that May 10 thing had anything to do with it, I'm delighted! Actually, I'm delighted even if it didn't. Congratulations on your new readership.
Liz
Posted by
ME Strauss |
11:42 AM
It was absolutely serendipity that I automatically added you to the blogroll because I started reading it via Bloglines shortly after I discovered Darren's update to his post, which that post was a responce to, which was shortly after the redesign, which was a long time coming. So yes, May 10 had a lot to do with it. Thanks!
Posted by
Wintermute |
12:27 PM
I love the redesign. Very nice T-shirt idea :). Long live blogtipping!
Posted by
Easton Ellsworth |
11:27 PM
Thanks! It doesn't validate, so I've got a bit of debugging to do, which should help load times :)
I tried to use one of the signs on the front of the t-shirt, but it wasn't legible at all when doing a quick hack in paint. I might try again using Gimp when I have more time :)
Posted by
Wintermute |
4:51 AM