Comments on: The results of the great October pleb fishing expedition

By: Rachel

Rachel — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:04:22 +0000

What is the bounce rate of people that search for “Cheese and beans” :-)

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:29:10 +0000

I do have feed numbers too – it has been climbing, but very slowly. I half expected it to fall through the floor with the demise of Friendfeed, but it hasn’t – the feedburner widget is showing 340ish at the moment – it’s been near that for ages.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:27:38 +0000

I think all bloggers face that from to time – why – is it really worth it? I always tend to fall back on the idea that it helps ME…

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:25:01 +0000

(oops… I’m using a netbook – fiddly keyboard) I was going to say – I added the stat tracking here to figure out how to do it :)

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:22:16 +0000

I have never really put much stock behind statistics either – the only real reason I have them is because other people had asked me to help build their blogs, so

By: Andy C

Andy C — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:51:38 +0000

I’m a real sucker for controlled experiments like this.

What’s quite impressive is the page views per visit (1.5) which implies you
got some people to stick around.

Any comparative numbers on actual subscribers in the same period ?

By: Agnes

Agnes — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:26:35 +0000

I don’t monitor my blog traffic at all. I am not even sure why I blog, LOL.

By: cooper

cooper — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:43:32 +0000

Good luck with that. I never really understood the point unless people are trying to make a living at it. I have a hard enough time keeping track of my
school work and my real work.