It has been a really long time time since I’ve made one of these updates. I am going to try to start doing these about every three months. The main reason I put this off is that I had fallen pretty far in the rankings and wanted a chance to redeem myself and my blog. When Memorial Day Weekend rolls around you all can start bugging me for another update.
Unfortunately I am still #2 on my own blog network. I’m not sure what to say about that.
‘Gate Blog – 48.1%
KyleLibra.com – 25.3%
Great American Sports Blog – 13.3%
Hamby’s Blog – 11.0%
Richmond’s Blog – 2.0%
The most obvious conclusion I can draw from this data is the relationship of updates to traffic. If there is nothing to look at, no one will visit. The quality of updates probably factors in as well, but there isn’t really a good way to measure that.
For those of you who aren’t big on twitter, here is another reason to get with the program. A whopping 17.6% of my blog’s traffic came directly from links I tweeted. This was the main reason I was finally able to pull back ahead of the Sports Blog.
When I looked at specific ip addresses viewing the blogs it became apparent that Hamby looks at his own blog the most causing his traffic to be slightly inflated. I am probably guilty of this as well, but with the constant travel it isn’t really easy to figure out. I didn’t factor this in to the graph, but I might in the future if I can figure out an easy way to do so.
I would really like to see some other blogs join the network. If you are interested, let me know.
Update: After a good suggestion by a friend, I am going to start tracking month to month data of the blogs through a line graph. This way we can see who is going up and down in traffic in relation.
http://kylelibra.com/2008/11/13/the-times-they-are-a-changin/
I’m losing ground.
Technically you were #2 during fantasy football season. The amount of traffic going to the stat tracker ridiculous.
A blog would definitely give me something to do. I think it could be interesting while I’m in NYC with all the crazy s&*% that goes on up there. Hatfield could then be a guest or co-commentator. Not sure how funny the posts would be… but it would definitely help me get my creativity back which has died after moving off of the hall.
I think the Tweets have definitely helped you gain ground against the ‘Gate. I just find it annoying to click one of those tinyurls and wind up here when I already have the RSS. I’m going to try to stop increasing your traffic because of my mistakes.
Since technically the stat tracker was my idea, I’d like to think that made my lead even bigger.
You should find a girl to blog. She could do commentary on the stuff you all post from the perspective of a woman.
Last Again, Oh well, maybe I’ll get more hits once the podcast starts…
I go through my own blog to get to the others since I only have that one on the favorites list or go through libra’s blog.
I think we should do something ala hilarium where everyone has something on the front at least that way there would be 3-5 updates per day which would generate more traffic. mo traffic = mo money
Hamby stop suggesting that. Although there are other reasons, the main reason we aren’t going to do that is because merging all of the databases would be way too much work.
I don’t think the hilarium is still going either if it tells you how that idea worked out.
Originally, I thought it wasn’t a BAD idea, but didn’t fully support it. However, the more I think about it, the less I’m behind it. Our writing styles are different, I don’t think we could agree on layouts, and we don’t appeal to the same crowds.
Hey Ginger… When were reading you’re blog than we don’t know weather too shoot myself in the face or if its because I will loosing my mind they’re isn’t anything well in their. Sea what I meen?
Well said.
We’re coming for that #2 spot
Bring it! I will admit that the Great American Sports Blog has the largest amount of potential visitors.