If You Ain't Bloggin'...
I started blogging, according to my archives, in June of 2004 which means — incredibly — that I have been doing this for four years now. Equally incredible, there seem to be a bunch of people who care. Here are some random astonishing (to me, at least) facts:
1. Alexa ranks SmartBlog traffic in the top 7.84 percent of all websites.
2. Technorati ranks SmartBlog traffic in the top 1.44 percent of all blogs (as opposed to the statistic above, which applies to all websites).
3. According to websitegrader.com there are 3,853 inbound links to the SmartBlog.
4. According to BlogLines, a leading RSS reader, there are 9,881 subscribers to the RSS feed for the SmartBlog. They note, however, "This is usually a small fraction of the total subscribers to the feed." I have no idea what that means. We also have about 2,500 subscribers through Constant Contact.
5. Typepad says that the SmartBlog has received 54,785 lifetime page views.
I have no idea how this happened, except that it didn't happen through promotion. But it has definitely proved to me that at least two clichés about the Internet are true: 1. Content is king, and 2. If you build it, they will come.
My 12,500 or so subscribers must be small potatoes compared to Boing Boing and the Huffington Post, but I'll take it as proof that persistence pays and soldier on.
The lesson for lawyers and financial professionals: If you ain't bloggin', you ain't tryin'.
Hey Mark, you left out one statistic - SmartBlog is #1 in my heart!
Posted by: Bob Kraft | July 07, 2008 at 06:00 PM
They don't read if you don't have something good to say. Your comments are always smack on Mark. Congratulations on your ranking. Wayne
Posted by: Wayne Walston | July 12, 2008 at 01:10 PM