Comments on: Subscriber and Commenter Statistics http://thispalebluedot.com/business/goals/2008/04/23/47/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:20:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Trisha http://thispalebluedot.com/business/goals/2008/04/23/47/#comment-1133 Trisha Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:24:20 +0000 http://thispalebluedot.com/?p=47#comment-1133 Caroline - my goal is to eventually have a small blog network on the ideasforwomen.com domain. I'm following steps Darren and David outlined in post of theirs. Darren suggested waiting 6 months before adding another one and to make sure to have a “good profile and traffic base”. Thing is - I don't get that much traffic to the one blog - there would be no point in adding another - no one would know about it to read it. Plus, I will likely need to pay another blogger to do the writing, and I can't afford it yet. Elaine - that's a lot of emails! I barely find the time to answer the ones I get now. Caroline - my goal is to eventually have a small blog network on the ideasforwomen.com domain. I’m following steps Darren and David outlined in post of theirs. Darren suggested waiting 6 months before adding another one and to make sure to have a “good profile and traffic base”. Thing is - I don’t get that much traffic to the one blog - there would be no point in adding another - no one would know about it to read it. Plus, I will likely need to pay another blogger to do the writing, and I can’t afford it yet.

Elaine - that’s a lot of emails! I barely find the time to answer the ones I get now.

]]> By: Elaine Warburton http://thispalebluedot.com/business/goals/2008/04/23/47/#comment-1127 Elaine Warburton Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:04:18 +0000 http://thispalebluedot.com/?p=47#comment-1127 Interesting exercise! Just to let you know that at www.geneticsandhealth.com I get a low number of comments per blog per day but around 50 -100 emails (excluding spam) a day through my personal email attached to the blog. My readers know they will get a response this way and quite often their requests and queries are personal and they don't want everyone to know their business. A few of my blogs have creasted a significant number of comments because of the contentiousness of the article. Trouble is, then you get the trouble makers who like nothing better than to ruin healthy debate! Interesting exercise! Just to let you know that at http://www.geneticsandhealth.com
I get a low number of comments per blog per day but around 50 -100 emails (excluding spam) a day
through my personal email attached to the blog. My readers know they will get a response this way and
quite often their requests and queries are personal and they don’t want everyone to know their business.
A few of my blogs have creasted a significant number of comments because of the contentiousness
of the article. Trouble is, then you get the trouble makers who like nothing better than to ruin healthy debate!

]]> By: Caroline Middlebrook http://thispalebluedot.com/business/goals/2008/04/23/47/#comment-1126 Caroline Middlebrook Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:14:56 +0000 http://thispalebluedot.com/?p=47#comment-1126 Interesting data! I didn't know what my average number of comments was! I'm not sure what your goal is exactly here but you sound like you are in a mindset that I used to be in where you base your decision about something on some arbitrary number. I remember saying to myself, "I'm not taking up karate until I can run for 10 minutes non-stop". These arbitrary numbers are usually a stalling tactic on our part. What I would suggest instead is that every week or so just ask yourself if you feel the time is right to start another blog. If you feel uneasy about it then that's a no, so wait another week. At some point the idea will feel good - that's when you do it. Interesting data! I didn’t know what my average number of comments was! I’m not sure what your goal is exactly here but you sound like you are in a mindset that I used to be in where you base your decision about something on some arbitrary number. I remember saying to myself, “I’m not taking up karate until I can run for 10 minutes non-stop”. These arbitrary numbers are usually a stalling tactic on our part. What I would suggest instead is that every week or so just ask yourself if you feel the time is right to start another blog. If you feel uneasy about it then that’s a no, so wait another week. At some point the idea will feel good - that’s when you do it.

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