It’s that time of the month that I report on the progress of this blog. This month, I didn’t have nearly as many posts. This was due to 2 reasons. I was on vacation for a week, and things have been very busy in my life that I haven’t had nearly as much time to blog as I wanted.
| Site Stats | |
| Number of Posts | 14 |
| Number of Comments | 13 |
| Unique Visitors | 4133 |
| Page Views | 4889 |
| Top Traffic Sources | |
| Stumbleupon | 3639 |
| 222 | |
| Youtube | 32 |
| Most Popular Pages | Page Views |
| Top 5 Mac Software for the Recent Switcher | 3287 |
| 5 Easy Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog | 351 |
| SXSW 2008: On The Art of Speed | 217 |
Let’s analyze the numbers. I had an almost 7 fold increase in traffic. This was due to several reasons: traffic from my existing content, and the social bookmarking site stumbleupon. I bookmark my pages on stumbleupon and try to tag them with as many meaningful tags relevant to the page as much as possible. I definitely recommend stumbleupon as a traffic generation tool. A little bit of traffic even came from my wushu youtube videos which I linked back to my site.
This month I had 14 posts, about 1 post every 2 days. Not bad considering the week off and the very busy schedule. The number of comments was quite disappointing considering the traffic. It’s probably safe to assume that the stumbleupon crowd aren’t big commenters.
I won’t be discussing ad revenue anymore. However it’s safe to say it’s negligible until traffic drastically increases. I will say that I’ve experienced over a 10 fold increase in Amazon affiliate sales due to the traffic. This was a pleasant surprise. I had experimented writing recommendation blog posts in which I recommend products and provide links to Amazon products that I review and recommend. Seems to be working. I even recommend it in a blog post here.
It’s pretty exciting to see the increase in traffic. How many of those people will come back to read my other posts remains to be seen. I did get a comment from a reader telling me to stick to new technology posts and not regurgitating information. I’ll try to make it a good mix between posts that tend to attract traffic, latest tech news in RIAs, and my personal life.
My name is Pek Pongpaet and I'm a developer, designer, tech geek, martial artist, mac enthusiast, tinkerer, foodie, trekkie, gamer, and blogger.
That’s a good amount of traffic, I think it’s a success and well worth the work. I think one of the reasons people might not post is because the button you have to click to post says “no comment” and when it’s after the “you can…” I read it at “dig it” or “no comment”. The no comment seemed to me as the option to some how vote down the article, keeping with the non-traditional language theme and my own confusion it took me a while to post.
Also, having to enter the user name and e-mail is a little of a road block because I am lazy and I have to remember what user name and e-mail combo I used. Maybe just the user name and a password would be easier. How about either or?
I am from Iowa and I have not came across a lot of Pek PongPaets. This is a little hard for return users who do not have the page bookmarked and lack the ability to spell names other than things like Bob.com.
The content of the page has been really good, there has been a variety of information that I can relate to and am interested in. I would have to say there have even been a couple posts I have felt compelled to share with others like the motion capture stuff with my wushu school and the leadership stuff with my direct reports at my day job.
One reason why I don’t post more is because I read a cool blog then I can’t think of anything to add to it. I read it, digest it, and think to my self yep that’s it. Not that things are too high level but maybe they could be a little more juicy! Nothing drives comments like good old fashioned drama!