Comments on: Confidential! ‘C-List’ Blog Readership SHOCKER!

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:56:35 +0000

May I add my “ughhhg!! LUBDUMBS R stp00p1d LOLZZZLL!!!111??

I feel I have to do my bit.

By: Don't Call Me Dave

Don't Call Me Dave — Sun, 03 May 2009 12:42:40 +0000

Unless you are running a political blog for a living, chasing hits can be a detraction from your main purpose of getting a message across.

My blog Not The Barnet Times receives a fraction of the hits of Guido’s site, but the number of people who are likely to be interested in Barnet’s political scene compared to the national scene is obviously going to be smaller. It doesn’t mean that the blog is less effective pro rata.

There is nothing wrong with niche blogging! As long as you receive enough hits to make your efforts worthwhile, then continue.

By: David Davis

David Davis — Sun, 03 May 2009 09:34:15 +0000

For The Libertarian Alliance, if anyone is interested, our Feb, March and April total page views were 42,132, 46,446 and 34,361: all these from approximately half those numbers of actual unique visitors. April was a bit thin on new material, and I had other things to do.

We started in October 2006, with three (3) views in total. I don’t know where this puts us in rankings.

By: Laurence Boyce

Laurence Boyce — Sat, 02 May 2009 19:31:45 +0000

I’m all blogged out Charlotte. Tired of being repeatedly abused and misrepresented. Though to be fair I’ve done a fair amount of abusing myself so can’t complain.

By: Charlotte Gore

Charlotte Gore — Sat, 02 May 2009 17:22:53 +0000

Nah Laurence you do good work, especially on the faith issue. Would be awful if you gave up.

By: Laurence Boyce

Laurence Boyce — Sat, 02 May 2009 12:54:21 +0000

Thanks Stephen. You’re right of course, LDV isn’t so bad. I shall look forward to my next intensely frustrating disappearing comments experience. Although to be honest, I think I’ve more or less said everything I’ve got to say. Religion bad, socialism bad, civil liberties – we’ve got them, stop complaining . . . what else? Did I say religion was bad?

Anyway, thanks for publishing all my stuff. We had some interesting conversations, and I managed to make myself really unpopular. But I don’t think I ever influenced anyone, at least not in the direction I would have liked.

But the next time you redesign LDV, why not ask Charlotte? She obviously knows a thing or two about this interweb thing, and I believe she charges very reasonable rates.

By: Belinda

Belinda — Sat, 02 May 2009 11:26:08 +0000

We get around 5000 on the blogs on out site

By: LibCync

LibCync — Sat, 02 May 2009 10:43:55 +0000

Take a few 0s of that figure to get mine! Must try harder..

About 50% of my traffic is through google searches. Still get several people a day searching for variations on “wire in the blood cancelled?”.

By: Hanging Chad

Hanging Chad — Sat, 02 May 2009 10:21:19 +0000

Dear Charlotte – it’s the old, old problem. The “fustest gets the mostest”, so Guido has a head start. Political blogging isn’t “WHAT I had for breakfast” – more like “WHO I had for breakfast”. All jugular veins and red meat, the thrill of the chase. I don’t want to see Bambi get eaten, I want the blogging predator to bring down lions, donkeys and jackals, chew their bones and show me their entrails – in the certain knowledge that they deserve it.

By: Plato

Plato — Sat, 02 May 2009 09:37:18 +0000

I use web-stat.com – it’s great but not free, pays ye money…

And on the subject of niche blogs – I link to this one – about appalling cake decoration.

It gets thousands of hits and shed loads of comments every day.