Comments on: Blog statistics - 2006-11-11

By: Ejaz

Ejaz — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:25:23 +0000

I found you through google search. The graph shooted up on 11-06 gained peak on 11-08 and came down rapidly at 11-09
So that speaks, you had left your blog open for discussion between 11-06 and 11-08?

By: A Backup Copy Of This Blog « UK Web Focus

A Backup Copy Of This Blog « UK Web Focus — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 07:04:23 +0000

[...] initial experiment is to revisit the experiments with Technorati I carried out shortly after I launched this blog. And, as can be seen when the blog was created it was ranked as [...]

By: Phil Wilson

Phil Wilson — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:43:34 +0000

Be interesting and link. That really is enough to get hits. Adding comments elsewhere, trackbacks etc. are all just increases on your base rate (and they’ll just be single-time hits if your content is rubbish).

Or mention Angelina Jolie, of course.

By: silversprite

silversprite — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:06:11 +0000

During the summer I ran a little personal experiment, in trying all manner of (legal) techniques in order to greatly boost the number of people who went to my blog.

Most things failed. Two strategies that have worked are:

1) Find other websites where you can comment on stories, that get lots of traffic (national newspapers are better than blogs). Keep an eye, possibly using Google Alerts to tell you quickly if there is a story on a topic directly related to your blog. Write a positive comment, included (in a contextually acceptable way) a link to your blog. Do this quickly so the comment as as near the top as possible.

As an example, the Scotsman on Sunday did an article about tourism in the winter in the Outer Hebrides:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1713892006

I got in with comment no. 7, weaving in a - relevant - link to my Outer Hebrides beach blog (a tag/subset of my main blog). Upshot is that I’ve had two days of record traffic.

2) Mention “Angelina Jolie” in a blog posting. Loads of people flood off Technorati searches into the associated blog posting.

By: Matt Jukes

Matt Jukes — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 14:20:56 +0000

..and I’ve just found you in my semi-regular search for JISC on Technorati and Google Blogsearch…think I am going to have a look at NetNewsWire now after Pauls comment above..

By: silversprite

silversprite — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:30:32 +0000

You’ve been linked from Jenny (shifted librarian) and Lorcan (OCLC) blogs, so your hits are about to rocket.

By: Paul Miller

Paul Miller — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:26:11 +0000

Brian

I can’t remember for sure how I found it, but a quick skim would suggest that your explicit mentioning of my name or Talis’ here - http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2006/11/06/scope-rationale-and-policy-for-this-blog/ - triggered one or other of my various alerts in NetNewsWire…

Returning specifically to the point about Technorati et al, I increasingly find that no one of them is anything like comprehensive. As such, I have NNW set up to consume various (8 or 9 in each case) alert feeds from Technorati, from Google Blog Search, from Feedster, del.icio.us, Bloglines, Flickr, Yahoo, and Icerocket. It also, very usefully, runs broadly the same set of searches against all of the several hundred full text feeds to which I already subscribe, pushing ‘important’ posts on those feeds in front of me promptly.

By: Tom Roper

Tom Roper — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 07:04:56 +0000

And I’ve just found you through a Technorati watchlist I’ve set up; one of many, but this one looks for anyone who’s linked to me, and I get the results as an RSS feed.

By: ajcann

ajcann — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 07:42:57 +0000

Technorati, and Google Blog Search, are powerful tools (yeah, that’s how I found you). Interestingly, they don’t completely overlap.
The nice things about both is that they will generate RSS feeds of search terms that you are interested in (”guy with a wooden leg who posts about UKOLN”) which you can then plug into your favourite blog aggregator (Bloglines, in my case) and follow the “river of news” with minimal effort.

–
AJ Cann, Leicester, UK. Also blogging at:
http://microbiologybytes.wordpress.com/
http://scienceoftheinvisible.blogspot.com/
http://iscience.wordpress.com/
http://frogroom-podcast.blogspot.com/