Checking In On You
Hi all!
For those of you who attended our blogging camp, I hope this post finds you blogging like a crazy person! If you are, please leave a comment with your blog’s web address. I’d love to see what you’re up to and perhaps brainstorm ideas with you to develop your blog further.
Not only that, but putting your web address in the comments below is just one more link pointing to your site … and as we know … that’s never a bad thing. 
Hey Brian,
I have this blogging thing down to a science. At one time I was blogging like a crazy person and now it is such a routine that it is effortless. I love it. Now I am learning more about video SEO stuff as my new project. You are a great teacher. Thanks, Deb
Brian,
Keep up the good work! Thanks for your interest in helping people learn more about blogs.
Okay…. here’s my blogsite…. As you can see, I’ve been at it a while. Yahoo analytics sez that 50-60 people come daily, about 40% first time/once a month.I like it that they come about 50% US, 50% international. I seem to have a particularly loyal following in Austria, UK, Australia, Canada, and the very far east. Also new visitors seem to come in waves from countries. Cannot explain that. I have had visitors to Lancaster call me as they tour in, crediting the website and asking for directions to the places I’ve pictured.
As you may know, I was a network radio talkshow host for years. Blogging is similar to radio where you speak into a mic with the blind faith that there’s someone within earshot. Back then studies indicated that you needed about 1,600 listeners to generate a caller. The ratio of visitors to comment-leavers is not that high, but what is strange is that many visitors send me private email containing their comments instead of leaving them in the public box (like this one). In fact the ratio is almost seven to one email v. comments. Others have told me something similar.
For reasons we discussed, we have not yet brought up a blog on the http://www.business2businessonline.com website. My guess is that it will be a while. But we continue to sniff at them.
Hi Ted,
Always happy to read your insights! As you already know, you’ve got a lot on the ball! We need to do lunch!
One bit of your comment mentioned a comment to e-mail ratio. Though I don’t have specific numbers, I have shared a similar experience. I think your ratio depends on how “blog savvy” the visitor is.
Perhaps they don’t know about comments work? More specifically, how to know when someone replies to a comment (as I’m doing right now). With an email, they can expect a reply. With a comment, they need to check back (or subscribe to the comment RSS).
I’ve been experimenting with adding a “comment alert” feature for Geek Camp. It would allow readers to opt in to an email alert each time a comment is posted to a particular article. Then, they simply opt out when they no longer want to receive updates.
Perhaps that could tilt the ratio?
Hi Brian and Crew!
Thanks for all the great info presented in all of your seminars! It’s been a while but we finally have our basic blog setup and starting to fill it in. In keeping all those crosslinks out there, I’ll eventually have our LinkedIn, Flickr, blog and website all interconnected. See you on 1/17 for the pay-per-click seminar. Is it possible for me as a poster here to use code for hyperlinks? How do I do that?
Steve
Awesome Steve!
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