Yesterday, Broadband Prime statistics showed 105 subsribers. After almost 13 months Broadband Prime hits 3-digits subs. The feelings are strong, rewarding and encouraging. I think it is probably a good time to draw some conclusions from the blog’s traffic. Right below there is a graph that I created from feedburner stats. It depicts subscribers and the one-week moving average of web hits.
A couple of things stand out. I want to mention them because they helped me so far and because I believe that pinpointing on past practices can indeed help others taking their blogging chances:
1. The red circle marks the period that I started using the social media. It may not seem much, but at that time it nearly doubled both subscribers and hits.
2. The blue lines on the top of the graph show the scale before and after my engagement in social media. It is certainly not negligible. Raising awareness is important for a blog’s readership. Refering to other blogger’s content, commenting, participating in relevant discussions can do your blog good, unless you exagerate a little too much!
3. Finally the horizontal red line on the right side marks the recent period of relative inactivity. Some good posts attracted interest but low posting frequency did not help sustain the subscriber’s increasing trend.
Most of the visits come, evidently from Greece. Looking at the all-time stats, Greece contributes with 32% of total visits and is followed by US (13%) and UK (10%). It’s interesting though that for the past few months, I get the same number of visitors from US and Greece, with UK slightly lagging. Finally, the second (after US) non-European country in this informal top ten is India. Now, that was a big surprise! Here’s the full list:
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Greece
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USA
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UK
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France
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Spain
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India
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Netherlands
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Italy
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Germany
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Sweden
In conclusion:
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A good frequency of posts does help
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Reporting news will bring in new visits but analysis, opinion and good argumentation is what will keep those viewers close.
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Engagement in social media helps too, but it probably requires a lot of your time to make a difference in the short term.
Overall, the best thing is to be sincere with your content and respectful to your readers and visitors by always trying to post quality material. I don’t consider the route of the blog successful per se. I believe though that I haven’t lost track these months and I still align with the blog’s objectives. This, I owe to you all. Thank you for your participation, comments and suggestions made along the way that helped make Broadband Prime what it is today.
