Comments on: How to Know if Your Readers are Engaged

By: What confident readers are writing | Confident Writing

What confident readers are writing | Confident Writing — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:34:15 +0000

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By: Jacob Share

Jacob Share — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:10:46 +0000

This article makes a good point but it’s important to remember that every blog community is different and may interact differently with the blog.

I’ll give you an example.

My blog, JobMob, publishes articles in full to the RSS feed but most of my readers are email subscribers. Via FeedBurner I can see that on an average day, almost 3/4 of my readers will actually view the article.

I consider this very good because my target audience of job seekers often complain about being overburdened with email, yet they consistently read my articles.

By: imassage, Inc.

imassage, Inc. — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:21:45 +0000

We have a newer blog (6 week old baby). I have noticed that our traffic count is not huge, but we have a high percentage of subscribers and page views. They are not leaving many comments, however, so I will tone postings with encouragement to leave feedback.

By: pelf

pelf — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:27:05 +0000

@Chris: Maybe that just confirms that WE ALL CHANGE, LOL.

By: Chris Garrett

Chris Garrett — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:05:51 +0000

@pelf – Yes my audience has changed over time, some of the regular faces don’t comment quite so much. Funny how that happens but then my non-blog friends have changed over time too :)

@Jack – I see the same thing, but sometimes it can be down to *how* we are linked. For example the link in this article in the “about the blogger” part hardly ever sends any visitors to my own blog. Some links just don’t draw any attention and therefore don’t get clicked.

@pchere – Then my work is done :)

By: Jack @ The Tech Teapot

Jack @ The Tech Teapot — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:00:07 +0000

This is something that Dave Winer has been commenting on recently…that he’s been on the home page of some supposed A list sites that generate very little in the way of referrals.

By: pelf

pelf — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:11:11 +0000

I ask for comments whenever the post permits it (I learned from you, Chris) but I don’t do it ALL THE TIME.

And yes, my subscriber count has increased, but I missed the conversations on my blog with my old buddies (who have either stopped blogging or aren’t blogging as frequently as before). I now look at an entirely new audience!