DISQUS

Phil Nash · 1 year ago

Are you still tracking visits to your site from either BlogCatalog or MyBlogLog? I like MyBlogLog for it's stats as well as seeing the people visiting, though I see what you mean about taking up real estate on the blog. I think I'll be moving MyBlogLog down to the footer in my next redesign, but I will keep it about.

Also, if those two are not doing their job of bringing users in, what is? Obviously you are doing well, Doug, is it all subscriptions and search traffic that are bringing you the hits or is something else working for you as well?

Douglas Karr · 1 year ago

Hi Phil,

I'm a huge believer of earning each and every visitor on my blog. I look for new blogs all the time, comment on their blogs, and reply (:)) to folks on my own. I also answer as many emails as I can when contacted.

In addition, I think the local classes I do on blogging and the events I speak at help considerably. I have a large network of friends and colleagues!

I also like to promote businesses and services that may not be 'mainstream' and get a lot of attention. I especially do it when they are regional companies. I like helping folks in my own backyard!

Thanks!
Doug

PS: Keeping the blog optimized is also a red carpet for search engine traffic... but good content and personal touch retains new readers.

Deeter · 1 year ago

Doug,

Thanks for sharing your stat analysis with the rest of us. Where do you find the time?!

As a social marketing service, we are always debating about which widgets to use for each client and I never know what to suggest.

My sneaking suspicion was that they were all just "bling" and didn't drive real traffic. I always meant to ask the analyticators to check...

Now I know...

Keep posting, I'll keep reading!!

Deeter

Clark · 1 year ago

I put the little banners on the bottom of the sidebar of Clark's Picks for the numerous social networking sites that I joined. Predictably, I get traffic from the one's that I actually frequent, mostly Fuelmyblog.

Right now I am experimenting with Entrecard and Spott for the traffic. Do you have any thoughts on those sites?

Adam Hyman · 1 year ago

Its great that you did the work to see what was driving traffic to your site and what wasn't.

I should do the same with my websites!!!

Daniel · 1 year ago

Hey Doug,

Glad to see BlogCatalog is bringing you some valuable traffic. It may not be Stumble or Digg numbers but you will find that our members are much more 'sticky' than most other networks.

I am sorry to see you took off the BlogCatalog widget, but it looks like you have good reasons to do so. Have you looked at any of our other widgets lately? we have quite a few that display various aspects of your blogcatalog and/or social network activity. This may be more appealing to your readers than just some random faces since it's much more target content. Take for instance our News Feed widget, which aggragates your social activity: http://www.blogcatalog.com/account.widget.php?t...

All of our widgets also track what BC members are reading your blog without having to display the photos/ads in the widget.

Keep up the great work,

daniel / blogcatalog.com

Rose · 1 year ago

To bad BlogCatalog doesn't pass any PR since they use nofollow.

PennyGo · 9 months ago

Hi Douglas, it was nice to see you on Twitter, that's how I got here. Be interested to know how Twitter is working for you. I agree ya gotta spruce up those sidebars now and then! Be interested to hear more about Technorati. I see a lot of people leave my websites via Technorati, but very few arrive that way on my sites...

Mikes@NewsBlog1st · 8 months ago

The only reason why i have Mybloglog, blogcatalog, fuel myblog is because i want to see who visit. that way i can also check their blogs out. maybe as a sign of giving back and for me to also know what possibly referred them to my site.