Comments on: Beginner Blogger Stats and Goals – Sept-Oct 09

By: Sarge

Sarge — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:50:04 +0000

@Robomaster – Wow you found an oldish post of mine, hehe. You’ve got a nice looking blog there! There are quite a few social media sites, like Stumbleon for instance that I haven’t properly looked at and dived into yet. There are a lot of things I haven’t tried and I’m certainly not giving up.

I know some people in the blogging world that don’t bother too much with SEO. While it’s always best to concentrate on the reader and delivering valuable content I think that a little bit of SEO work certainly won’t go astray. Especially after reading your comment – I’m going to assume that a bulk of your traffic comes from search engines. I get next to no traffic from search engines and that’s due to spending next to no time in that area. Something I’ll work on in the coming weeks.

By: Robomaster @ CoolAppSite

Robomaster @ CoolAppSite — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:56:48 +0000

Ha forgot to mention that the thumbs up were on StumbleUpon. Love that site, gives me so much traffic if used properly.

By: Robomaster @ CoolAppSite

Robomaster @ CoolAppSite — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:46:33 +0000

Wow, just reading this I’m realizing how lucky I am. The 5th day after my blog was released I got a dozen or some reviews/thumbs up on one of my posts on Grooveshark. I received around 5000+ uniques in that one day, and am still receiving around 200 each day. My subscriber count jump to 92, then backed down to 50, but CoolAppSite is continuing to grow at a rate that I’m really amazed with. For some stupid reason, I feel like it needs to grow faster, but just reading this post (and you post excellent content here, it’s not like mine is any better!) made me realize that I should be PLENTY content with what I have. That being said, don’t give up!

By: Sarge

Sarge — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:15:57 +0000

Appreciate the comments guys. I know writing more blog posts is something I have to work on. It will happen! I really think I can achieve all that's on my list this month.
Wish there were another 24 hours in a day!

By: Jimi Jones

Jimi Jones — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:10:06 +0000

You’ve got a good writing style, just need more of it. Up that content, as pointed out by Mike CJ.

Keep blogging man!

By: ileane

ileane — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:36:11 +0000

Hey Sarge, I think it’s a great idea to chart your progress this way. It keeps you focused. The stats for “housekeeping” show that you are way more organized than I am these days. I noticed that you scaled back your goal for monthly posts from 20 to 10. That’s probably a more reasonable goal, but don’t forget that the quality of your posts is much more valuable than the quantity. So if you only have 4 posts that reach your audience and engage them to make comments and give feedback, that is better than 10 posts with no engagement from your audience. Keep up the good work! I’ll see you in twitterland.

By: Mike CJ

Mike CJ — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 10:47:47 +0000

I must be your one RSS subscriber, ’cause that’s where I read this post! I hope you don’t mind a tip from me: The biggest failure is on the posting front, although I’m sure you know that. But the rest becomes irrelevant if you’re not posting regularly, so this month focus on that goal above all others and you’ll see the other numbers move in the right direction for you.