Feedburner, RSS Subscription, and Comments
Yesterday one of my children asked if I knew exactly how many people read my blog. I said I know for sure that there’s probably a good 20 regular readers, which include everyone in the house and my regular commentors. My page views doesn’t really tell the real story because some of the views are from search engines looking for updates.
My Feedburner and my RSS subscription doesn’t help either because it’s been 4 months now since I started blogging and it is still stuck at 4 subscribers.
I wanted to do something to find out exactly how many readers I get everyday.
I thought maybe if I buy one of those traffic analyzers then I can be sure of the numbers, but I decided not to because I’m too cheap and too broke to purchase it.
Maybe if I held a contest to see how many will subsrcibe to my blog then I would get a ballpark number, but I scrapped this idea because I’m too lazy to keep track of all the entries and other things that goes on with holding a contest.
I could just implore my readers to click on the little guy on the right hand corner with the orange rss button and subscribe to my feed but that’s not my style. I want people to subscribe out of their own volition and not because they are being cajoled to subscribe.
What I did though is that I took Barbara’s, from Blogging Without A Blog, advice. She told me to put Comment Luv, so I did; actually she just wrote about it and I took it as a personal advice. She said that this could increase my comments which means that I can get a better idea on how many actually read my blog everyday. Barbara has given me a lot of blogging tips. Man, I wish I discovered her blog when I started blogging. Who knows where I would be by now?
Perhaps I shouldn’t worry about my blog traffic. I should just write good content and hopefully people will come and read and subscribe. But, sometimes it’s awesome to know that there are actually people reading my blog. And if I knew that a lot of people are actually paying attention to my writing then I would become an even better writer. You see, when I write, I always keep my audience in mind. I’m not the type to write just for myself, because if I did then I would just use a notebook instead of the internet to keep a journal.
Maybe the reason why I’m writing about this is because my mind is pre-occupied with work related stuff; which means I can’t concentrate enough to produce quality content. If this is the case, my content would be crap for the next couple of weeks because as a school administrator, the next couple of weeks will be hectic.
So I guess this post is just a filler. I can’t wait to get home when my best and worse critics get a hold of this post. I’m sure one of them will say, “Hmmm…nothing to write about, huh?”
And of course, I would say, “I got a lot of stuff to write about, there are all in here (pointing to my head).”
On a side note; this one is for Smiley Face.
“Sorry sweety, Daddy didn’t hit a homeroom today. This post is a dribbler back to the pitcher for an easy out.”
) You can get a free version of “sitemeter” and put it on your blog. It lets you see how many visitors came to your site, where they came from, and how long they stayed.
I need an exit strategy!
