Well the numbers are in and for the most part a lot better than I expected. March was the first full month this blog has been up and running as well as my first full month running a blog ever.
These were my goals for the month of March as they are posted on my side bar. I felt that the goals were very ambitious and worth shooting for.
- Page Views : 30,000
- Number of Posts : 31+
- RSS Subscribers : 100Â Â
How did the numbers play out?
Instead of posting just the numbers, I am going to post pictures, because we all know that pictures speak louder than words.
Posts:
I had over one post per day this month, meaning I met my March goal of 31+ posts. My top post for number of visits is the post: 10 reasons you should quit your job.
Technorati Rank and Authority, plus 30 favs:
RSS subscribers: (The last day of March, it was actually 84 but I did not take a screen shot till after I lost a couple)
 Unigue Visitors:
Alexa.com Stats:
Results:
First off, I would like to say that reaching 30K visitors was awesome in my opinion, and then to blow right past it to over 51k was amazing. StumbleUpon, Entrecard and Sitehoppinwere very kind to me for providing visitors. What amazes me the most was the traffic from Sitehoppin, which added another 3kunique visitors to my stats in the last few days of March. If you haven’t already figured out that Sitehoppin is delivering good traffic, then you need to go over there and get a Beer Stock right now. What surprised me the most between the traffic from Entrecard and that of Sitehoppin was the bounce rate percentage. Entrecard has been giving my blog a bounce rate of about 87%, whereas Sitehopping is about 45%. That is almost half the bounce rate as Entrecard. The difference between the bounce rate of these two sites is quite a bit and worth noting.
As you might of noticed, I did fall a little short of my RSS subscriber goal, I think that this is fine and that I still did quite well. My new goal for subscribers for the month of April is going to be 160. I am sure it won’t be quite as easy this month as the last because of the ability to offer that many Entrecard credits to people. With all of that said, the winner of the March RSS subscriber award for 3,000 credits is Jeff with watchandtrain.com
Congrats, Jeff. If others would like to subscribe to my RSS feed, I will give 500Entrecard credits to the first 5 people (send me a message).
April Goals:
- Unique Visitors: 75,000
- RSS: 160
- Alexa: under 90,000
- Technorati Rank: 100,000
- Technorati Authority: 200
- Posts: 30+
 Overall very good in my opinion and I am looking forward to continued success in the blogging world.
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Those are some greats stats – it’s good to see your blog grow. I would have liked to see how many posts vs comments in addition to your bounce rate and time spent and pages read per visit. Those are the real numbers to me, what users are really getting out of the blog.
Hope you do even better next month!
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Great idea to post and keep trace of that information as well. Here it goes for March
Posts: 42
Comments: 215 just over 5 comments per post
Bounce rate: 80% according to google/analytic
Average time: 2.06 according to google/analytic
Pages per visit: 2.8
Josh – interesting stats. These sort of posts are always interesting to me – gives me a frame of reference to see how my blog is going on similar metrics.
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I agree as well. I use the stats people post as a benchmark as well. As long as they are getting better you are doing well. Things usually take a little bit longer than one normally thinks they will.
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