Jan
13
Tell Me What You Want
Filed Under Blogging | 7 Comments
Thanks in great part to a Stumble from Jeff Quipp of Search Engine People, I'm having a nice flush of visitors today. Yaaay! Yesterday there were two sets of live eyeballs here that weren't yours truly. Today, so far, MyBlogLog says it looks like this:
AbleReach Blog
Readers: 220
Page views: 505
Offsite clicks: 4
About 50 of the page views could have been mine. I was messing with my theme and that always means a lot of refreshing. MyBlogLog seems pretty good about Readers vs Page Views, and once I left I left for good, so I'm trusting that only one or two of the Readers is me. If 218 readers are responsible for about 450 page views, that probably means that a lot of those 218 are new and looking at more than one page. Returning visitors are more likely to read what's new on the blog's home page and then bounce.
Does anyone want to share how many of their Stumble spike traffic is return or new visitors?
Before this, I've had one Stumble spike, and the visitors were about 90% new. Normally I've been running at about 60% new. I expect the new visitors number to go down when I've been around longer - this blog's first post was almost two months ago.
Now that I've gone on a bit about searchy stuff, I have a request. Tell me what you would like to see here. Though it doesn't have to be something I've already said I'm interested in, ya gotta read me first, though, because I'd like to be in character when I follow through on this - LOL.
My idea list is all over the map, and I'm open.
Send me an email or comment here.
Golly, there aught to be a prize for the reply that makes me the happiest and most interested. Hmmm... To keep the friendly exchange going, if I pick your idea and you're interested, I'll interview you here.
If nobody answers - ROFL - maybe I'll have to interview myself.
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7 Comments so far
Happy to see people stumbling over here, and I’m loving the new full feeds. What would I like to see? I’d like to see that tag line expounded upon – Using the Internet to Build Community.
It’s such an important topic, I believe, and I’d love to get your take on it, so any posts you do on that will be great.
Looking forward to more posts of any nature from ya.
Community is a big, juicy topic. Yum yum.
Thank you, Donna.
Hi Elizabeth,
I’ll tell you…I think you have a real affinity for the WP stuff and there is one thing that keeps bubbling on my back burner that I just am not finding the time to look into. The WP ecommerce plugin. What’s going on with that? Do you know? I’d love news of it, and if it’s actually working, a tutorial with images would light up my soul!
Congrats on the Stumble. It’s unbelievable how much traffic comes in from that.
Miriam
Hello Miriam,
Thanks for coming by.
Are you interested primarily the WP ecommerce plugin, or tutorials in general? Would screenshots be enough, or do you think screencasts could be more effective?
I’ve thought about making tutorials as a resource for myself, too. Even if I have done something before, if I don’t do it all the time I usually google for clarification. Putting what I am looking for on my own site would ensure that I can find it again!
Good Evening Elizabeth,
I think a thorough tutorial on using the plugin would be sphinnworthy,bookmarkworthy,diggworthy content. Screenshots would probably be enough…though I am a fan of screencasts when they microphone is in good order. Otherwise, they are scary!!
Please, let me know if you do this. I will be the first person to Sphinn your post!
Miriam
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