Is Anyone Reading?
Originally Posted June 5, 2007
That is the question of the day. People have been emailing and asking how they know whether they have readers if no one is commenting. Technologically I’m looking for a solution where you can see how many views you’ve gotten but in the mean time here is some advice…
- Write for you and only you. We all know it’s great when we get comments and reinforcement from our online readers but at the end of the day you are writing the blog to help YOU stay accountable. Right? Well you should be! When I started I had my mom and a few friends and look at me now! Write for you and only you, readers and comments are just icing on the cake.
- Visit other blogs in the community and comment. This is the great thing about being a part of the community. When you comment your name will link users back to your blog. When you give support, you will get it back. If you’ve gotten a comment click on the users name and check out their blog. Check out the latest blogs and posts on the main page and welcome our newbies!
I hope that helps. I am working on the stats feature, like I said, but I have no idea when and if I’ll get it working! I will keep you posted though!
there’s a site called createblog.com and they have a tracker on there. it’s pretty good actually. although you can’t see the name of the person that reads your blog unless they are signed up with that site, you can still see how many people visit the blog, where they are located, ip addresses and such. it even has graphs! i use it for my myspace page and my myspace blog. check it out. it might be able to work with this site! it’s called myspace tracker v.2 or something like that. and i don’t think it necessarily HAS to be myspace because you type in the web address to be tracked.