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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Last week I started the 31 days to build a better blog on this blog. The week before I started—May 31 through June 6—the blog got 28 visits and 34 page views.
I’ve completed the first two days’ assignments. It was very helpful in a couple of ways. First, it helped me define exactly what I wanted to do with this blog. It also made me realize that my about page wasn’t visible from my wordpress theme, so I found a new theme and reworked my site. Finally, it guided the writing of one of my posts, which I think was very helpful both to the readers and for me as a writer. Feel free to let me know what you think so far. I’ll post the changes in traffic next week regarding these effects.
As of right now, I’ve gotten 34 visits and 42 page views this week—since the beginning of day June 7.
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