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.
I have decided to resurrect the blog. I have updated my final post appropriately. I am not like Sylvester Stallone. Instead I’d like to think of myself as Michael Jordan, I retired at my peak and didn’t realize it.
What started as a software update for the blogs I hosted turned into playing around with some scripts on this site, which turned into some posts, which turned into this. I will be making posts fairly regularly until I decide on a format. There are a few new things that have been added such as the “film ranking” and “best of” pages. Keep watching for more changes!
My life has gotten to a point where I don’t have the time or energy to update this blog anymore. It turns out that having a full time job occupies more of my time than being a full time student. Who would have thought? It has been a good run. Unlike Sylvester Stallone, I know when to let something go. It has been a lot of fun, thanks for the support over the past four years.
Update: Turns out this wasn’t my final post. You can disregard what is written above.
A while back ‘Gate asked me to do another one of these posts. It took me a while to compile data because I forgot to turn the tracking back on when I had to reset everything on the server. Without further ado, here are the results from traffic to the server over the past month.
As you can see, things sure have changed. ‘Gate is now in undisputed first place with me falling really far. The Sports Blog is third, followed by Hamby’s Blog and then Richmond’s Blog.
Not terribly surprising if you have been checking all five regularly. I am going to be re-thinking what I am doing with my blog over the next couple of weeks. I really don’t have time to update it regularly, other than just embedding videos people send to me.
Update: I should also mention that the Fantasy Football stat tracker we are running has more traffic than everything else combined.
What are those web sites that you check when you fire up your browser? What are the web sites you check on a daily basis, what are those you check on an hourly basis? Many of mine are in the links section, but I am more curious about what my viewers are looking at regularly. Leave links in the comments.
I noticed today that my youtube videos have been viewed a total of 217,917 times. Wow! Because I don’t have time to post anything too original or complicated, here is my most watched video of all time.
Previously I was very hesitant about who I offered blog hosting to. Those days are no longer. Recently my host changed some technical aspects, which I won’t go into. Long story short I can now host about ten times as much stuff as before.
If you are interested in getting hosting take a few moments to answer the following questions.
1. Do you know me in real life?
2. Do you plan on updating a minimum of two or three times a week?
3. Do you have anything interesting to write about?
4. Does your future wife’s first name rhyme with your last name?
Depending on how you answered those questions you should probably be able to figure out whether or not you qualify. The next step is to send me an e-mail requesting hosting.
I wanted to have this done almost three weeks ago, but unfortunately it just didn’t happen that way. As of right now everything is working properly (I think) and set up the way I want it. Knowing how I am, I will probably continue to make some minor tweaks over the next couple of weeks, but for the most part I can now concentrate on content.
Essentially this is Version 3.0 of kylelibra.com. Version 1.0 was crappy and lasted only a few months. Version 2.0 was much better and lasted about three years. Hopefully Version 3.0 will be good and last a long time.
You might be wondering, “what has changed with Version 3.0?” Good question, let me explain some of the major changes. First, there the nature of the content has changed. Unfortunately I am going to have to get away from daily updates. It just isn’t going to be possible with my travel schedule. Instead I will be switching to longer, less frequent posts which have a lot more content in them. There will also be articles and projects that get posted. Articles are basically long posts that have relevance beyond just staying on the main page for a couple of days. Projects are larger, more involved web related items I am working. The second major change it twitter integration. In the sidebar there is a constant update of what I am doing at any given time. I am especially proud of this because I can update it from my cell phone.
These changes are huge, but the direction of the web site is definitely going in a different direction now. One thing is for certain, it will remain an entertaining diversion to whatever mundane things you have to do from day to day.
