Comments on: Are Humans Reading Your Blog? http://www.blogherald.com/2009/10/27/are-humans-reading-your-blog/ The leading source of news covering social media and the blogosphere. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:30:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Peter White http://www.blogherald.com/2009/10/27/are-humans-reading-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-1105902 Peter White Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:44:11 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/?p=14851#comment-1105902 I look at the search phrases that come to my pages and also what pages they land on. It's easy to tell who is just searching for places to put spam. I can even tell which are colleagues checking out the competition. I get plenty of searches but only a good friend of mine felt compelled to leave a few comments. I keep telling myself that people that do frequent my blog, might need someone else to break the ice, because of the content of my blog. (Hmm I wonder if my nice guy page has a ton of shy guys waiting on the wall like in some junior high dance. ) I look at the search phrases that come to my pages and also what pages they land on. It’s easy to tell who is just searching for places to put spam. I can even tell which are colleagues checking out the competition.

I get plenty of searches but only a good friend of mine felt compelled to leave a few comments.

I keep telling myself that people that do frequent my blog, might need someone else to break the ice, because of the content of my blog. (Hmm I wonder if my nice guy page has a ton of shy guys waiting on the wall like in some junior high dance. )

]]> By: Chris http://www.blogherald.com/2009/10/27/are-humans-reading-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-1105815 Chris Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:00:55 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/?p=14851#comment-1105815 I'm human too and I visit this site daily although through google reader but sometimes I click-through, like today. FeedBurner tells me how many bots visit my site. Between FeedBurner stats and Google Analytics, I'm almost certain that a very high percentage of my traffic is human (although the low number of rss subscribers, high bounce rates and 90 seconds or so on average spent on the site indicate that these are all speed-reading humans that were so satisfied with what they found, subsequent visits could never be as gratifying as the initial visit. Or, I'm really lying to myself... ) Just an idea but I don't think bots, spiders, crawlers, worms, etc. use monitors. So you could total up all your visits from user-agents that passed a screen resolution! Of course, now that I've posted this, some nefarious individual will now be passing a screen resolution with their next worm... I’m human too and I visit this site daily although through google reader but sometimes I click-through, like today.

FeedBurner tells me how many bots visit my site. Between FeedBurner stats and Google Analytics, I’m almost certain that a very high percentage of my traffic is human (although the low number of rss subscribers, high bounce rates and 90 seconds or so on average spent on the site indicate that these are all speed-reading humans that were so satisfied with what they found, subsequent visits could never be as gratifying as the initial visit. Or, I’m really lying to myself… )

Just an idea but I don’t think bots, spiders, crawlers, worms, etc. use monitors. So you could total up all your visits from user-agents that passed a screen resolution! Of course, now that I’ve posted this, some nefarious individual will now be passing a screen resolution with their next worm…

]]> By: Teri http://www.blogherald.com/2009/10/27/are-humans-reading-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-1105812 Teri Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:36:37 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/?p=14851#comment-1105812 Hi, I work as head of content for a mobile web portal. I read your blog every day, and I'm a human. Just thought you'd like to know. Hi, I work as head of content for a mobile web portal. I read your blog every day, and I’m a human.

Just thought you’d like to know.

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