My latest submit, 20 years engaged on the identical software program product, lastly bought this weblog previous 3 million web page views:
And it solely took me 18 years! I do know some individuals wouldn’t get away from bed for 3 million views, however that isn’t going to cease me bragging about it.
I haven’t actually accomplished a lot to advertise the weblog, other than sometimes posting hyperlinks to Hacker Information.
The yearly hits have gone down over time. Principally as a result of I’ve been writing much less usually. Today I’ve 3 merchandise to maintain me busy. But additionally blogs are much less of a ‘factor’ than they was once.
Listed below are the 20 most visited posts:
Most likely the excessive level for the weblog was the software program awards rip-off submit getting a point out within the Guardian newspaper.
The low level was when WordPress unintentionally shut down the weblog.
Energy legal guidelines are very a lot in proof, with the highest 1% of the posts accounting for 18% of the hits. I’ve been constantly flawed in guessing which posts could be well-liked.
Was all that effort, writing articles value 35k (of untargetted) clicks throughs to my PerfectTablePlan web site? Most likely circuitously. Even when individuals did click on by way of to my product web sites, the engagement was usually very low. However I’m guessing that the improved area authority from hyperlinks to my seating plan software website has been useful in enhancing search rank (see what I did there?). Selling my merchandise was by no means the one intention of the weblog anyway.
Some posts I’ve written had been principally notes to my future self. And there have been a number of circumstances the place Googling for a solution despatched me to an article alone weblog that I had fogotten having written.
I’ve accepted a number of visitor posts. However I’ve been extraordinarily choosy about which visitor posts to simply accept. I’ve additionally turned down loads of provides for paid hyperlinks.
Right here is the place the site visitors got here from, by supply:
I used to be fairly suprised by how a lot site visitors has come from stumbleupon.com.
Digg.com, bear in mind them?
Google utterly dominates the search engine outcomes, with Bing managing a pitiful 2.6% of search engine hits. Presumably from individuals too lazy or ‘non technical’ to alter their Home windows defaults.
Right here is the site visitors, by nation:
Little or no site visitors got here from Africa, South America or Asia:
In fact, it’s arduous to know the way a lot of the site visitors is people and the way a lot is bots.
There have been some 37k non-spam feedback:
Various the feedback are responses by me. I’ve additionally learnt quite a lot of helpful stuff by way of suggestions on the weblog and discussions, when hyperlinks had been posted to locations like Hacker Information. However the variety of feedback on the weblog has markedly decreased, even taking account of the general lower in site visitors. On the plus facet, I’ve loads much less remark spam to take care of. It was fairly overwhelming at one level. It is a remark from the weblog in 2008:
I’ve given up trying by way of the spam logs. There may be simply an excessive amount of of it and one can solely learn so many spam feedback about Viagra and bestiality with out turning into profoundly depressed in regards to the human situation.
Fortunately WordPress appear to have tremendously upped their sport on spam detection since then.
Right here is the highest 20 websites the place the site visitors went:
The ‘social capital’ from the weblog has been helpful for selling my consulting providers and the coaching course I ran. Additionally for selling numerous charitable and different causes I felt worthwhile.
I’ve a obscure concept that I’d, at some point, write a guide about beginning a small software program firm. If I do, I’ll actually mine the weblog for materials.
PS/ No, tiresome ‘search engine optimisation specialists’, I nonetheless don’t wish to put your boring, crappy visitor submit ‘articles’ with their dodgy hyperlinks on my weblog. So please don’t waste each our time by asking.
