2005-12-10
I'm so popular now
wow.. I really jumped over a lot of people with that uptime story didn't I.
according to one blog ranking engine (not named) I am the 711th most popular blog on the planet for that day.. woot. but sadly for me I am expecting the fame to be fleeting.
just a couple of data points here.
1. A 'mention' on tech.memorandum.com scored me ~100 hits. a mention in the other blogs got me another 180. I was pretty pschyed.. as i got about 450 visits that day overall.. a record for my little blog which been up for less than a year. (If I had 20 more page visitors I could have claimed I got more traffic in that day then I did in the first month I started!)
2. No follow on, this was a true flash crowd, I got no extra readership the next day.. not one extra RSS subscription, and page views back to normal after 24 hours. (and if you are a new subscriber reading this, someone else got so pissed off about reading about uptime they unsubscribed ;-)
3. For all my popularity, I got ZERO clickthroughs on the ads.
4. The bounce rate was above 80%. people just looked at the thing, and clicked away.
So what did I learn from this?
1. Not to quit my day job, blogging about network performance and open source won't pay as much as actually doing it ;-)
2. Crowds don't matter. It's the type of crowd that matters. For whatever reason people coming here via a MSN search are much more likely to click an ad. For a publisher, 1 person coming from MSN is worth 10 from google, and they should factor that into how much they pay the search engine.
3. Rankings (as they are currently calculated) are worthless. No way this blog is anywhere near 711 of anything.
4. If you want traffic posting your comment on your own blog (and doing a trackback) is much more effective than just leaving a comment, and you get the benefit of your readers visiting the original blog who would have never heard of it before.. so it better both ways.
5. Blogging software needs in general needs to learn a bit from traditional content producers.. and have a option to either let the blogger put in 'related' links or show the titles of those links in the category bar.
6. If you are planning on doing this for a living, you should talk about wagering, or texas holdem, or how to refinance your mortgage, as those ads are worth a whole lot more ;-) and I still think ad-clicks are more of a random walk then scientific planning.
but I still have an open question..
who the hell is searching for my name?
| Date | InLinks | OutLinks | Entries | LinkRank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 8: Thu | 4 sites 6 links |
2 sites 3 links |
1 | 711 in the top 2% |
| Dec 7: Wed | 1 site 1 link |
2 sites 2 links |
1 | 43,051 in the top 82% |
| Dec 6: Tue | 0 | 1 site 1 link |
1 | 51,200 |
| Dec 5: Mon | 1 site 1 link |
0 | 1 | 51,065 |
| Dec 4: Sun | 1 site 1 link |
2 sites 2 links |
2 | 53,973 |
| Dec 3: Sat | 2 sites 2 links |
0 | 0 | 51,829 |
| Dec 2: Fri | 0 | 3 sites 3 links |
1 | 49,823 |