Apropos of the previous post, while I was reading the one it referenced, I learned that Robert Scoble’s weblog gets 3000 hits a day, or was doing that at some time in the past couple of months.
My daily average right now is over 4000 pages a day (I don’t report on image files, or .css, just html and rss/rdf files). My XML files (for newsreaders) are way down the list: in fact, I can’t see them in my current reports. (I’ve just changed the configuration to report on all URLs to see where they end up.) I also don’t log traffic from my home network so my own posts or reading doesn’t show up in the reports.
It’s always interesting to see how people find their way here and that page itself is one of the top 5 viewed pages most days.
So would I consider this successful, after almost two years in? I suppose so. The comments I get are often helpful, and the search traffic suggests some of this stuff is useful.
There’s some stuff it hasn’t done for me: it hasn’t helped me find paying work, either directly (if someone decided I had some minimal skills from what they see here) or indirectly (my Amazon affililates account, direct donations, and Google’s AdSense have all been disappointing: Google might just cover my cable modem bill . . . . ).
Perhaps I need a hobby.
now playing: Beck’s Bolero from the album Beckology (Disc 1) by Jeff Beck