Here's something I've been puzzling over for a few weeks:


Surely the true measure of success for a blog is how many people actually read it.  Especially as I'm not really that interested in the monetised side of things.

Here are the recent stats for the blog page-views:

Page-views today:  86
Page-views yesterday: 107
Page-views last month: 1,546

So last month's average was just under 50 page-views per day.

Which is great as:-

A: I don't post everyday

and

B: There were a couple of weeks where my post count was way down, lower than I would like in-fact.

Offset against this I have been doing some pro-active tweeting about some of my most helpful posts and because of this they are seeing a lot more attention.

Dazed And Confused...   24 Mar 2014 - 150
A little less conversation  17 Mar 2014  - 105
Ten Tools of the Trade      7 Apr 2014  - 74

Not huge numbers of page-views yet though so they are having an affect but it's small compared to the average daily page view count or last month's total.

In addition to this I continue to develop my social media presence.

I'm now in the circles of more than 300 people on Google+ and each new blog post gets automatically posted to my account so that has to help.

Also as of today I have reached 6000 Twitter followers, a fairly large milestone in my book, and I definitely tweet about my blog several times a day.

All of this means the number of people my blog reaches is constantly increasing and it's something I am very happy with.  It also means I consider my blog to successful but I am not complacent about it.  I will continue to post regularly and continue to find ways to attract more page views.

I'm thinking about allowing the blog to be used for blog tours next.  Should be fun.

Phil