Comments on: God -blog Demographics 2005 Part 1

By: rebecca

rebecca — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 23:42:34 +0000

I joined 2 since Christmas–one blogroll and one aggregator. My traffic count would have been pretty consistant for several months before that, and it’s been around 100 hits per day greater than that for late January and February. To a really big blog, 100 hits per day is nothing, but to the little guy, it’s big boost.

I think it happens because when people join and aggregator or blogroll, they tend to run through the list and check out some of the blogs they haven’t noticed before. Some, of course, will be just one-time hits, but others will like what they see and begin to check in regularly. I’ve added 4 or 5 newly discovered sites to my daily round up of blog reads, and I discovered them by checking out the blogroll and aggregator. I assume something like that happens with most people who join–they discover new blogs that they like.

By: Bene D

Bene D — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 10:04:58 +0000

I take it you’ve taken advantage of the aggregators or lists by putting your blog on them.

How many have you joined? What was your hit or session count before, and what has it been after, if you don’t mind me asking?

By: rebecca

rebecca — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 07:11:57 +0000

I suppose they don’t work that way if someone already gets lots of traffic, but it you’re a peon, they are a good way to get noticed, and if those new visitors like what they see, some of them will become regular visitors.

What they do, I suspect, is increase traffic more to the tail of the TTLB ecosystem, for instance, rather than to the big guys.

By: rebecca

rebecca — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 07:07:55 +0000

I think the aggregators and the blogrolls are more than toys. They’re a tool, and useful ones at that. Joining an aggregators and blogrolls is one of the most efficient ways I know of to increase regular visitors to your site.

By: Bene Diction

Bene Diction — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 05:18:29 +0000

Hey, I’m a major blog booster, but playing may be the operative word. The god-blog sub-division may not be as eclectic as I initially thought.
I gave up trying to sort through the duplications.

I can respect people wanting ranking, and wishing to be part of a group.
From the outside looking in, sorting aggregators out is a bit more of a bite than I meant to take.:^)

From the looks of it, the god-blog sector hasn’t grown much, it’s just networking more. The aggregators are the latest toy - they seem to be glorified blogrolls that gets bloggers ‘ranking.’

By: Robert Duncan (the former "jesus gil")

Robert Duncan (the former "jesus gil") — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 01:07:53 +0000

Bene that�s impressive and fun reading. I couldn�t stop playing through all the aggregators!

By: BD

BD — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 00:32:27 +0000

Thanks Rebecca!

By: rebecca

rebecca — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 00:23:12 +0000

I did a quick count on the Women4God blogs list, and of the ones I’m already familiar with and I counted 6 non US–3 Canadian and 3 non-North American. There may be more–there are several blogs there I haven’t checked out yet.