How Many People Read Your Blog

How Many People Read Your Blog

Tom Ball sent an interesting link to t-shirt design to bloggers community today.


I love that kind of sense of humor and I laughed a lot, when I saw the picture. Then, I told myself  "Wait a moment, it's also about your blog!".

BACK TO HISTORY

When I started blogging 2 years ago,  I expected that everyone in the world would be interested to read my blog. Not only because of the content, but also because of me. Me, INTP (Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving), who finally decided to share his best thoughts with the all other smart people outside. (erhmm)
So I published my first article and watched the number of hits, hoping that it goes higher than Jonathan's, Roumen's or Geertjan's blog, just to name my favorite bloggers at that time. Well, no surprise, it didn't. I published a couple more entries at that time and switched to hibernate mode. Who would write something for less than 10 hits per day?

SECOND [FALSE] START

Hey-wake-up impuls came from 3 people. Steve Wilson, my mentor tagged me, so I was forced to publish something. Volker Seubert, HR business partner, who writes quite long, but pretty interesting HR articles.
And last, but not least, Yarda Tulach, one of the original founders of NetBeans, who talked to me in the hallway the other day and asked me why I hadn't posted anything for so long (actually he asked "Are you dying or what?" . He watched my blog by RSS feed and he threatened me to remove it from his watchdog. That was very serious.

So I started again. I was keen to see how many people really read my posts, so I inserted google-analytics script in my Weblog Template:

<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
    _uacct="UA-xxxx-x";
    urchinTracker();
</script>

I felt much better, since it shows real numbers and statistics, including Most Visited Pages and the country where people come from.

Summer came, with now toys, like Facebook and I was back to my old habits, slowing down the frequency of posts to almost zero.

I NEED SOMEONE TO READ MY BLOG!

At least one person! Yeah, and I found a victim finally. It's Tony, my English teacher. I promised to write blogs as my homework and he is going to use it as a weapon against me.

But I wonder anyway, is anyone out there reading my blog? Are you a real person or just a search engine?
 

Posted at 03:18PM Oct 12, 2007 by Pavel Suk in Global Engineering  |  Comments[6]