Stay Away! Is that what your blog says?
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Many bloggers when at their first day at the bloggers office rush straight for the widgets, they add all the widgets, they ignore content and start cluttering up their blog, with RSS feeds, Alexa, PageRank, Technorati and many other statistical/ranking widget’s and even start all the money making schemes too.
Be honest when I first started I had the feedburner Widget, Alexa and the Technorati widget on my blog.
Big mistake?
Now looking back at it was a huge mistake, but lucky I got though that time and now I am starting to see reasonable statistics appearing on my blog.
Who wants to read a blog that nobody else does or maybe just your family? No one does so don’t publish it too everyone. Wait until you have good statistics what can be used to measure you against other serious bloggers. As success breeds success, when you display your improved statistics people will warm to you faster and follow your blog.
So the question is now what’s good statistics?
There no hard or correct answer but I like throw a few figures out here for blogs on the same niche as mine:
RSS feeds: 100
Alexa: 350,000
Technorati Authority: 150 or more
Pagerank: 2
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Straight said:
Very good point. Small numbers on those “stats” widgets are making blogs looking very bad - and that’s dangerous for startup bloggers.
Btw, Simon, I’ve started online contest and I would like to take this oportunity to invite you to check it out and let me know your thoughts.
Sincerely,
StraightDecember 20th, 2007 at 8:05 pm -
Anthony Lawrence said:
On my main page in the left sidebar I display Feedburner counts (actually two, because I offer both a full feed and a partial), Technorati link count, and a count of visitors over the day.
At the end of each post, just above comments, I show the Technorati tags I used and Technorati authority.
Below comments, actually almost at the end of the page, I show daily, weekly, monthly, yearly and all time page views for that specific page. Those are more for my use than anything else; few people will ever notice them.
On my “Advertise here page, I show Alexa rank and a link to my stats on http://www.seomoz.org/tools/page-strength.php
December 20th, 2007 at 9:19 pm -
Debby Banning said:
I think new bloggers are in a hurry to add all of the “widgets” to their page and don’t realize the impact of having a Feedburner stat that says they only have 1 subscriber.
Great post!
December 22nd, 2007 at 2:09 am
