Beginner Blogger

This blog has been up for over a month now and I thought I would share my stats with you. This is also a great way for me to share with you the tools I am using to work out how well my blog is going. I want to go through with you my goals for August as well. I use a variety of different methods to track my stats and here they are:

Twitter stats for July

Tweets – 33 (how many messages I posted)
Followers – 62 (how many people see my messages when I post, in their account)
Following – 157 (how many people I see posting messages, in my account)
Direct messages – 21 (how many people have sent me a private message)
Mentions – 13 (how many people have sent me a direct message using the @ tag which is potentially visible to everyone)

Facebook stats for July

Fans – 0 (how many people have joined the fan page beginner blogger)

Blog stats for July

Posts – 7 (how many posts I have made)
Comments – 6 (how many people posted a comment, excluding myself)

RSS stats for July

Subscribers – 3 (how many people have subscribed to my RSS feed, according to feedburner)

Google Analytics stats for July

Visitors – 90 (how many people visited my site)
Unique Visitors – 52 (How new visitors came to my site, this is checked by IP address so is not entirely accurate as IP addresses can change daily on some computers)
Visitors not from Brisbane (my home town) – 62 (Because my IP address changes and I check my site constantly on different computers I wanted a way to check my stats that didn’t include my visits)
Visitors not from Brisbane and time spent on site higher than 0 seconds – 23 (I wanted to see how many visitors came to my site that spent greater than 0 seconds on my site – i.e. the page fully loaded and they spent some time on the site. I’m not sure if this is entirely accurate)

Significant other things I did in July

• Created this blog
• Created email account
• Created twitter account
• Created RSS subscription through feedburner
• Created Facebook fan page
• Experimented with some plugins and widgets in wordpress
• Made some great contacts/future contacts
• Submit site to google (ranked on page 1-2 depending on time of day, have been as high as no1 spot for search term ‘beginner blogger’)

Goals for August

• A new fresh design!
• Add in a video to a blog post
• Experiment with a podcast
• Get better at batching my tasks
• Get a blog post out at least once every 3 days – so at least 10-12 posts this month.
• Find a blogging association/group to join

I have goals I want to achieve in terms of traffic/visitors/twitter followers etc. But because this blog is very new I just want to see how next month pans out before I share with you what my goals are in that respect. That way come the end of August I’ll be about to do a month on month comparison

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