A Year of Blogging (analysis and statistics)

Guys,

I have been blogging actively for a year now and I just published a post about the statistics of my blog during this period! I want to share the post and the statistics with you. I hope it inspires someone!

Based on statistics from Statcounter and Google Analytics my blog received received 574,874 page views by 424,292 unique visitors!

I grew my reader base from 0 RSS subscribers to 1100 RSS subscribers!

Check out all the details with graphics at my post: A Year of Blogging

I now set myself a goal of reaching 5000 subscribers till July 2009!


Peter

Ps. Tell me what you think and are there any other statistics you would like me to include in the post?

 

1,100 subscribers? blimey, that's a lousey opt-in rate from nearly half a million unique visitors... you might want to work on buffing up your pages somewhat to make the opt-in box more prominent to catch all those visitors.

 

congrats. Those are pretty impressive numbers.

Very good point from askloz though: why do so few of your visitors subscribe to your blog? Is it a problem of subscribing process or they actually don't care about the content and as you have advertised your blog everywhere, they just go have a look at it and bounce away?

 

I am not sure why so few visitors subscribe to my blog...

I have a link inviting them to become subscribers after each post, and I have the rss feed icon the first item on the sidebar.

 

I believe you're best off bribing your vistors with something they want. Many marketers use a free ebook or "special report" they have created. It's just good old- fashioned bribery and corruption.

 

I improved the invitation to subscribe to my feed after each post.

I'll see how this one performs.

 

any chance you could share with us how much ad revenue you made?? or just give us a rough estimate. Because you should have made a nice bit of money from nearly half a million uniques.

 

nice work on this and it just goes to show that your hard work and efforts really do pay off in the long term

 

At least you show to us the outcome of your hardwork. Congrats!

 

I did not concentrate on making money. I was going to see how well my blog performs! I am satisfied.

I'll try to make some money out of it later, when I get more regular readers!