It’s Saturday and that means the bloghallenge update is here again.
Things were slow this week, very slow. For the first time since the 1st of May (with 35 views) the number of pageviews dipped below the 50 yesterday, reaching only 38. If you read enough about blogging however you know that at certain times a dip wil occur in these numbers and so I’m not to depressed about it. The solution is not to give up and keep writing the best you can. I might just have to stop watching these stats every day and just have a peek on saturday for this update.
I am having a slight problem however. The guy how has my domain somehow doesn’t seem to be active online lately. His last tweet was a long time ago and he hasn’t commented here or otherwise let me know he’s alive. But let’s not let that stop us so it’s on with the numbers:
Average number of pageviews over this week: 83, a decrease as expected. I wonder where the counter will stop at the end of the month.
Number of subscribers to my RSS feed: 30, but that’s also to be expected in the weekends. Some of you might not know this but the number in the counter on my main page doesn’t resemble the number of people who have subscribed, but the number of RSS reading tolls that have requested the feed on this day. At least, that’s the simplified explanation. That’s why the numbers fluctuate so easily.
Where the traffic is coming from: The usual sources again. Forums (my signatures), blogs I’ve commented on, a bit of twitter and some search engine traffic. It seems more and more people are bookmarking my site and coming here directly.
What I have done this week to get my blog bigger and what I learned: This week I added a page about my RSS feed and what RSS is. Moulded after probloggers page. I also added a more attractive RSS button to the main page and a counter below it. According to various sources having a counter on your site can motivate people to subscribe. This works best when you have more than 100 subscribers but that will come in due time. Humans are followers by nature and if they see that you already have 100 subscribers (or more) they are likely to subscribe as well thinking “If this blog gets so many subscribers it must be good, I want in on the action.”
Yes it actually can work this way, amazing isn’t it.
I haven’t done much actively this week to get my blog bigger, shame on me. I’ll get back to the commenting on other blogs next week and see if there is anyone who wants a guestpost on their blog. If you want one just let me know (mail me) and I’ll see hat I can write that will appeal to your readers.
That’s it for this week. I hope the numbers will be up again next weekend. Have a nice day everyone.
I tried an RSS feed. Must have done something wrong, so far nobody had been able to sign up. But that is part of the fun of learning. to figure out what you have done wrong and fix it.
Don’t worry about your page views. I am sure they will go back up.
Maybe I can help with that feed? Just drop me a line and I’ll see what I can do about it.
I’m sure the pageviews come back up again. Today (a Saturday even) has already gone above the 50 again.