Determining A Blog’s Success

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If you are using a blog to make money online, or if you are really hoping to make some money online with your blog, then money is obviously your standard to determine how well you are doing towards your target. But what if money is not your target of having a blog-how can you really determine how success your blog is?

Every problogger or IMers has their own standard of measuring a blog’s success. For some of them, it may be traffic, but others will aim for more subscribers, and there are also bloggers who prioritize comments.

Below are some the standard of measuring a blog’s success that most bloggers to evaluate how their blogs are going on.

Traffic

This is one of the most common ways bloggers seem to evaluate a blog are different measures of traffic.Different bloggers seems to have their own thinkings for different aspects of traffic.

Unique Visitors

The main uses of unique visitors is to count the number of people who visit your blog. The main problem of determining this accurately is because you can’t really know who is visiting unless they log in into their account.

Page Views

Page views are the total number of pages read in a web browser.Each post might receive different number of page views and by comparison, you will be able to work out which post is much more popular and giving you a wider exposure of what article your reader like the most.

Subscribers

Bloggers mostly love to compare their feed subscriber rate but why are them so popular?

Counting a blog’s subscribers gives you a good indication of how popular it is in reality because they are the people who wants to catch up with what you post.Subscribers are mainly split into RSS and Email(Opt-In) subscribers.

RSS Subscribers

RSS Subscribers are the people who use feed readers to read your posts. They normally uses a feed reader to pull down updates from your blog and they never really visit your blog to save time.

The most popular tool to use for feed at the moment is FeedBurner, and this is the tool that most probloggers use to compare subscribers rate with each other.

Email Subscribers

In addition to RSS reader, many bloggers like to publish their latest posts through email.There are services that allows you to take your RSS and deliver email updates once there are updates.

An advantage of an email mailing list is when a visitors subscribes to your mailing list, you get his email and this is also a much more accurate way to indicate your number of subscribers.

Comments

You can count how many comments each post receives after removing junk and spam.If each of your comments receive 10-20 comments, it is quite good and you can try to improve it by encouraging more comments.

Many blogger judge quality as equally as quantity because it takes nothing to publish a bullshit and promotion comment in the comments area but someone who posts about a idea generating or suggestion comment can be more satisfying.

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