The oddity that are blog stats
You may have noticed that I haven’t posted in a week, and I’m actually considering abandoning the blog idea entirely. The time and energy it takes to be a good blogger is quite extensive, and I’m still undecided on the positive impact of a blog. In fact the blog is now ineffectual as a way of promoting my piping services to potential clients (just try a Google search for bagpipes in Maine and I’m nowhere to be found), which was the whole reason that I started making websites some six years ago.
Anyway, I logged in today to make a short post. WordPress is kind enough to provide some stats on the blog, and shows a nice little graph of visits to my site by day. This is the graph that greeted me today:
Notice a relatively consistent number of visitors over the past two weeks, then the big spike in traffic yesterday. Why? I have no freaking idea. There’s often an increase after I make a post, especially if I post it on Twitter or Facebook, but there’s been none of that yesterday. No visiting forums and touting my website around, no handing out business cards. Just more visits. I don’t get it. Thanks for coming here though!
I tend to agree completely! The days of websites being effective marketing are long gone. I tend to use mine to expand on business card contacts. I pass out a great many business cards, and I use my websites to expand on the card’s message. It gives me an opportunitty to display my photos, play my sound bites, and talk about myself. None of which can be done on a business card. And now a days I pass out far more business cards than I get visits to my pages. However, those that do visit my pages are there because the card sent them.
September 2, 2009 at 8:22 pm