It's ok if you just want to see the hits increase, but not if you want people to read your material. I was just checking my stats. Almost all readers referred here from BlogExplosion don't stay for more than 30-40 seconds. 30 seconds is the minimum time a person should be at a blog to get credits in BlogExplosion. It's obvious that a majority of the blogging population enrolled in BlogExplosion don't want to read other blogs.
This isn't the case with other readers though, like readers referred from other sources like searches or other blogs. There was one reader from India, I'm not sure which city 'cause the person was browsing from a Sify Iway browsing centre or using a Satyam LAN connection (you can tell all that by using a reliable hit counter like statcounter, in case you were wondering), who was referred from Hobbes' Moron Mountain (Don't get fooled by the name... it's a must read blog if you haven't done so yet),(a very long sentence, aint it?), who actually stayed at this blog, read all the archives, and also all the posts from my other blog, for a total of TWO HOURS (Surprisingly, this person hasn't cared or doesn't want to leave a comment). I never knew my blogs were worth so much time. I've had visitors from Sunny's blog who actually leave comments(Sunny as in Sunny Melbourne, in case you haven't heard, an indescribably passionate blogger.). Then there's Whatever's Left, the funky UK music blog, giving me a frequent source of readers, not just visitors.
Tony Pierce has linked to me in the past week, (What? You don't know who Tony Pierce is? He's probably the most illustrious and true blogger of our time, though his blog does have a disclaimer "nothing in here is true". If you haven't done so already, and I would be surprised if you haven't, go read his blog!) and all the visitors from his blog stay here for at least 10 minutes.
If the world weren't filled with so many selfish people, BlogExplosion might actually be good.
Trivia - The most popular keywords people use to end up at this blog - "Why Do We Exist"/"Do We Exist".
Oh, here's wishing everyone who celebrates the festival around the globe a very HAPPY DEEPAVALI/DIWALI however you prefer to call it. Technically it's over now, though some celebrate it tomorrow also. Personally I would say avoid the firecrackers completely, but if you feel like it, go ahead!
First, I'm not assuming that if someone reads just one page of my blog and doesn't comment, etc., that they don't like my blog and won't be back.
ReplyDeleteSecond, I posted what I posted to elicit a response from a BlogExlosion member... IT WORKED!!!
But it is true that most BE members don't stay for more than 30 seconds...
And now I get a response from not any BE member, but The Zero Boss himself!
ReplyDeleteI do agree with you - the majority of people are selfish. Then again, not many blogs catch my eye enough to hold my interest for more than 30 seconds. People have commented and rated my blog and people have blogmarked me (which helps!) but all in all the amount of hits I get from BlogExplosion are empty.
ReplyDeleteUK Music isn't really of interest to most americans, and I think that's why. BE is addictive though, and for every 50 or so people who don't like my blog, one will, and they will return.
Yet another fellow blogger who visited from Tony Pierce's site! Nice to meetcha!
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Rads... I think you've hit the bull's eye, the nail on the head and what not. I'm pretty sure who that visitor was.
ReplyDeleteSunny... I'm totally flattered, if flattered is the word I'm looking for. My not so large head is now swelling.
Hannah... UK music is addictive to every American I know. But that's probably because I know very few...
I must say a LOT of my american friends do like what I recommend to them, but brit music isn't always readily available overseas. That's why I've changed WL to have it's own launchcast player, and lots of links to videos, official band sites and suchlike.
ReplyDeleteWhat I really meant to say is that the UK charts wouldn't interest most Americans, and we do really focus on the charts at WL.
How big is Brit music in India?
Well, I'm not sure about ALL of India, but I can say this much for Chennai, the place I live in... It's pretty big. Or at least it was big before they introduced the Conditional Access System by which most music channels became non-existent in homes without the "Set Top Box" needed to watch them. Before that happened, both American and British music were almost equally broadcast.
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