This is the fourth week that I’ve been working on 31 Days to Build a Better Blog. Just to recap what I saw the week before last, 9 Ways to Use Rails Metal was featured on the Rails Envy Podcast. Coverage in the podcast alone accounted for over 50% of my traffic over the next 3 days. I’m still seeing traffic trickle in from the podcast. To be honest, I wouldn’t have written the post (Day 2) or contacted Gregg Pollack (Day 3) to get the feature if I hadn’t been following the steps in the booklet. You can get your copy by clicking the image at the top of this post.
I did see the traffic on my site trail off over July 3rd and 4th. I’m not sure if that’s due to the American holiday that weekend or due to the fact that I took Friday off to enjoy the holiday and didn’t post anything. I’ll let you in on a little secret though and tell you that things really picked up Sunday and Monday after the holiday. Look for next week’s blog for more details.
Overall, in one month, I’ve gained a Google Page Rank of 3 (out of 10). My Alexa page rank is now 1,799,062 (down from almost 3,000,000 a week ago). Google analytics and the other metrics I’m using keep showing the readership going up. The RSS feed is gaining subscribers. The system works. In two more weeks, I’ll have finished the 31 days and I’ll give you a grand overview of the difference it has made. I think most people will be pretty surprised at how much difference it has made in 6 weeks.
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