On July 2, I said Daily Pie would be getting back to daily. Here's how it's gone down...
Days since declaration: 48
Days blogged since declaration: 46 (96% days)
Topics missed: 2 (social media + books)
Days w/ bonus posts: 7
Topics w/ most conversation (comments):
Books - 24
Travel - 23
Simplicity - 23
Fitness - 22
Topics w/ least conversation:
Podcasts - 8
Social Media - 15
Writing - 18
Days left in 2009: 135
Number of 2009 posts if I keep it daily: 277 (76% days)
Most posts per year (historical, descending):
2007 - 270
2006 - 267
2008 - 200
2005 - 43
Minutes it took to gather this data + write post: 47
Minutes I'd like to cap post preparation at: 30
I compile numbers for grant reports at work. In evaluating Daily Pie's dailiness, I'd say it's going pretty well so far. I'm still deciding whether I want to write the posts in advance or day of (I think I prefer in advance). The comments numbers above are skewed because they include my own responses, but, frankly, I'm too lazy to go into each post to tally non-me comments. For now, I'll keep the topics the same, with re-evaluation in the fall. If I stay on track, 2009 will top all other years for number of posts.
Do you periodically review your stats or methods? Do you find it useful? What have you learned about your blogging?
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Daily Blogging: The Numbers
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3 ate pie:
I certainly don't review my stats as thoroughly as you've tabulated yours. But, I do take a look at what posts seem to be the most popular and which ones got the most comments on them from time to time. I'm trying to get better blogging practices though (inspired partly by all the yummy Daily Pie going on here!) so I'm going to attempt (once again) to do the 31 days to better blogging by ProBlogger. We'll see how it goes this time around.
I'm totally with you in the amount of time I'd like to spend preparing posts. And, I find that the posts I prepare in advance are usually the ones that do better anyway. I guess I'm more organized when I'm thinking about a specific topic for a specific day as opposed to just blabbing about whatever's in my head at that moment.
I use Google Analytics to keep track, although, admittedly, not so much any more. I wanted to have something solid to give as a credential in the bio section of my query (hence the blog), and after I got over a hundred readers, I quit keeping track as fastidiously as I had before.
But one of the good things I noticed is that I have the most readers Mon-Wed, then about 75% Thurs-Fri, and maybe half on the weekend. Makes sense--people are out living lives on the weekend, and are back at boring work on Monday. But since I saw a pretty regular trend in that, I now try to schedule my best posts Mon-Wed, and if I havea good idea for a post over the weekend, I typically write it immediately, but schedule for it to post on Monday.
The other thing that helped was to see what had the most hits, so I knew which topics were the best. But I judge that a lot by the number of comments, too.
Jenn - will have to check out ProBlogger. Anything to improve the experience for everyone!
Beth - You know, I use Google Analytics, too, and totally forgot to use it for this post. Duh. It's a great tool - overwhelming at first, but fun for data junkies. :)
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