Written on October 7th, 2007 at 06:10 am by Darren Rowse
How Many Visitors Do You Get On Your Blog? - Poll Results
Last week I asked enternetusers readers this question:
How Many Unique Visitors Does Your Biggest Blog Get Per Day?
Considering that a previous poll found that over 50% of my readers have been blogging for less than a year the following results don’t surprise me (as it generally takes 2-3 years to build a blog to it’s potential).
2144 readers responded and 35% of respondents get less than 100 visitors a day.
Here’s the percentage breakdown for each category:
0 - 100 - 35%
101 - 250 - 16%
251 - 500 - 12%
501 - 1000 - 10%
1001 - 2500 - 10%
2501 - 5000 - 6%
5001 - 10000 - 3%
10001 - 20000 - 2%
20001+ - 5%
While these statistics may be a little depressing - I think they are very worthwhile knowing for a number of reasons:
1. If you’re a PreBlogger (or a new one) - it’s worth knowing that building a blog with thousands of readers is not something that is as simple as signing up for a free blog tool, writing a few posts and expecting people to show up. Blogging takes work - time on a daily basis and time in terms of months/years of consistent blogging.
2. If you’re a blogger who is feeling discouraged by blogging and having a lack of readership - you’re not alone. Many (if not most) bloggers struggle to grow a blog’s readership.
3. There is hope - 5% of you have blogs with over 20,001 daily visitors. While this is a relatively small group when compared with other categories - it can be done.
One Last Thought
As I look over the above chart it strikes me that together as a community we have an enormous reach. I just quickly calculated an estimate of our combined readership by multiplying the number of recipients voting in each category by the mid point of that category (and by multiplying the 117 form the top category by the minimum value).
Using this calculation we have a combined Daily Visitor reach of 4,846,375. Considering that this blog is read by considerably more than the 2144 people who actually voted in this poll (we have about 15 times that many RSS subscribers) the numbers of who we reach each day is quite staggering.
I’m not sure what to do with that knowledge - but it does make me think that we should be working together more to support and build up one another in our readership. Food for thought.
Written on October 7th, 2007 at 02:10 am by Lara Kulpa
Like to travel? We sure hope so…
Please pay VERY close attention to this 8 hour special, gang.
We’ve got some travel related stuff to give away, and I can’t stress enough how important it is that you are sure you can and will be able to use the prize if you should win it. Please don’t enter if you’re not going to be able to definitely use the prize, okay? There’s still a lot more coming up, and plenty else for you to win.
Prizes
- 1 year subscription to Home Exchange Club - Home Based Holidays
- 3 night stay in FL condo near Walt Disney World - Magic Vacation Villas
- 3 nights in Sedona, AZ - Retreat and Heal
- two FREE nights at a Culebra hotel in Puerto Rico Palmetto Guesthouse - the Palmetto Guesthouse
None of these include airfare or any other necessary travel arrangements.
The subscription to the Home Exchange Site provides you the opportunity to “swap homes” with others on the site located just about anywhere in the world - just like in the movie The Holiday (romance not guaranteed!).
In this giveaway, you are actually REQUIRED to tell us in the comments which prize you’d like (because not everyone can travel to all of the given locations), and if the random number generator happens to choose two people who have chosen the same prize, we will award it to the first person and re-draw for another number.
So leave anything you like in the comments, but include one of the following:
- HouseSwap
- FloridaCondo
- SedonaRetreat
- PuertoRicoBB
If you’ve already won a prize in the giveaway, you may not win one of the above unless we’ve already said otherwise in that prize post.
This one ends on Saturday October 6 at 8pm (EST - New York, USA).
Update
Winners and sponsors have all been notified by email. Thanks for participating, and keep checking the Birthday Prize Giveaway category for more chances to win!
Written on October 6th, 2007 at 11:10 pm by Lara Kulpa
While We’re on the Topic of Charity…
This one’s really special, gang… As you all know, Darren’s really big on charities, and does quite a bit to help out and promote them here on enternetusers. Also, we noticed that many of you mentioned charities when you responded on the “If I had a million dollars…” post.
In the call for prizes, we received many very generous offers, but here is where you, dear reader, get a chance to really shine. We’ve got $1,000 to send to YOUR favorite charity! Courtesy of FreeMoneyFinanace.Com
Because this is such a special kind of prize to “win”, we’ve got a really special way of handing out the task for eligibility.
How To Enter
In the next 24 hours write a post on your blog about your favorite charity (Sponsor Stipulation: It must be tax deductible under US laws.) and link to it in the comments below. Please put “charitypost” after your links, to help us with the spam filters. We’ll once again randomly choose one entry to win, and will notify both you and FMF of the notice. I’ll also close off comments here when the entry period ends, and will post the winning charity in an update at the bottom of this post.
The really really good news? This one’s open to everyone, regardless whether or not you’ve already won something in the giveaway. :)
We will make one additional requirement: Your post needs to have some weight to it. You cannot simply write a post that says, “My favorite charity is ABC, and it does XYZ, so you should go donate to it.” Give it a little thought - motivate your readers to take some action and blog from your heart. For some inspiration on what would constitute a “weighty” post about a charity, check out these written by our very own enternetusers:
So have at it, folks! You have until 9am (EST - New York, USA) on Sunday, October 7 to finish it up and put the link in the comments. I know that I personally can’t wait to read about all the really great charities out there that mean so much to you all!
Update
Thanks for the entries - There are some really fantastic charities written here! I applaud all of you who took the time to focus on this one for the good of others. :)
Entries are closed now, and we will be randomly choosing a winner. Once we verify the charity, we’ll send the winner the details.
Thanks again, everyone who participated!
Final
I’m pleased to announce that the Bloggeroo, writer of the post about the charity RESOLVE, was selected by the random generator to win the $1,000 donation from FreeMoneyFinance!
I want to thank each and every one of you who selflessly took the time to write up a post about your favorite charity, and I hope that this giveaway has at the very least brought some well deserved attention to some really fantastic organizations.
Written on October 6th, 2007 at 06:10 pm by Lara Kulpa
More nifty stuff on it’s way - another 8 hour giveaway!
More great stuff…
You guys know the drill by now, yes?
Leave a comment, and make sure to outrun the spam filters by including “dogcat” in there.
Keep a close eye on the Birthday Prize Giveaway category to see what’s going on when, and it’s still not too late to subscribe to the RSS feed!
The Prizes
- Pampered Pooch Package & Doggie Mommy Pack - Good Doggie
- Caddy - Water bottle holder + carrier - BVT Products
- 10 coffee mugs (10 winners) - Mighty Mugs
- 6×6 Custom oil painting - One custom full color single pet portrait - Intricate Art
- The Essentials of Trading Course DVD - The Essentials of Trading
- ad spot for pet-themed site - Million Dollar Pet Pix (Please let us know in the comments if you HAVE a pet themed site because this prize cannot be won without one.)
Winners chosen at random, and prizes are dispensed randomly. You may not choose which prize you get (comments doing so will be deleted in order to keep the odds in check) and if you’ve already won something this week, you are not eligible to win from this list (unless we already clarified that the one you won on was open to all).
This one ends at noon on Saturday October 6 (EST - New York, USA)
Update
This one’s closed to new entries, and winners have all been notified by email.
Check out our next super special 8 hour giveaway!
Written on October 6th, 2007 at 10:10 am by Lara Kulpa
8 hours and 8 more prizes! The giveaway rolls on…
As you know, we’re doing these shorter, 8 hour blocks now to tie up the final giveaways through the weekend. Here’s the first one we did, that gives much of the details on how this is going to run.
Basically, every 8 hours we close out one and open another. This is in addition to all the 24 hour project-type giveaways going on as well! Keep a close eye on the Birthday Prize Giveaway category to see what’s going on when, and it’s still not too late to subscribe to the RSS feed!
This prize pack is geared toward parents and “mommy bloggers” with lots of great stuff for you and your kids!
- Barefoot Bunny Slippers - Barefoot Parties
- 2yr subscription to Nylon Mag - Fashionista TV
- Jewel Caddy, “NO Tangle” Jewelry Organizer - Jewel Caddy
- 6 month subscription to both svcs. (for three winners) - Babble Soft
- 1 year - Access for your (3rd-12th grade student) - Book Test Online
- assorted baby and kids items - Lille Punkin’ Reviews
- Child Guard - Personal Self Defense
So this one’s going to end October 6 at 4am (EST - New York, USA).
If you’ve already won something, you’re not eligible (unless we’ve said on that particular one that it was okay).
How To Enter
All you have to do is leave a comment below! (Sorry, we can’t really let you pick your prize on this one. Guys, if you win the bunny slippers, and aren’t partial to fuzzy bunnies looking up at you when you walk - give them to your wife or girlfriend!)
Make sure you include “BunnySlippers” in your comment somewhere to help us through moderation… ;)
Update
This one’s closed, and winners have all been notified by email.In the mean time we just started yet another 8 hour giveaway and there are plenty more to come in the next couple of days!
Written on October 6th, 2007 at 06:10 am by Darren Rowse
Chitika Launch Premium Publishers Program
Chitika have launched a premium publisher program in the last week.
Chitika publishers will now fit one of three categories - Silver - Gold and Premium.
Each level has it’s own privileges - from what I can tell most publishers are Gold publishers (I’m not sure why there’s a Silver category) with premium publishers qualifying by fitting this criteria:
You have used Chitika ads consistently and made at least $1000 over the past 90 days
AND / OR
You have a proven high-quality of traffic based on the feedback of our advertisers.
What do premium publishers get?
- Higher Rev Share (no details on what this actually is)
- CPM and PPC ads (get paid for impressions as well as clicks)
- Real time Auditing (no more waiting til the end of the month)
- Dedicated Account Manager
- Custom Ad Units (Chitikas designers can create something to suit your blog)
- Instant Chat with your account Rep (if you’re in the same time zone - I’ve never seen mine online)
- Account Overview Reports (monthly)
- Customized backup categories (tailor a category specifically for your blog with specific products)
- Chitika Premium Publisher Badge (pictured right)
- Spots as a guest blogger on Chtiika’s blog
As a publisher who has been put in this program my own attraction to it is the higher rev share (although I’ve not really seen any marked improvement), the CPM ads (my CPM income is about 10% of the click revenue - a nice jump!) and the possibility of custom ads.
I do think it’s interesting that Chitika have gone public with announcing what premium publishers get. AdSense are public about the fact that they have a premium publishers program and have mentioned at different times what number of page views is needed to get into it - but they’ve always been more vague on what those publishers get. In doing so I wonder if they’ve created less of an ‘us and them’ feeling with their program.
My worry is that perhaps by giving everyone a category and telling everyone what they are missing out by not being premium publishers is that they might frustrate their middle and lower tier of publishers. Time will tell.
Written on October 6th, 2007 at 02:10 am by Lara Kulpa
Let the Time Sensitive Winning Begin!
Here we go! Every 8 hours from now until 8pm (EST - New York, USA) on Monday, October 8 we’re giving away bunches of different prizes, and get this… all you have to do is comment!
This is in addition to our other 24-hour giveaways going on through Monday. Things are about to get a little crazy around here!!!
Before we give you details of this first giveaway (below) - here are a few details of these 8 hour giveaways:
- All winners will be chosen at random.
- You’ll have 8 hours to leave a comment on each round - you can enter in each one only once
- You may not win if you’ve already won a prize elsewhere (unless we’ve said so on that particular post already that it’s okay).
- While we’d love to be able to let you pick your prizes on these, it’s just way too hectic to be able to do so. Prize distribution will be random.
- Once a particular post closes, we will notify both the sponsor and the winner so that you may work out the details of the prize distribution.
So with all that said, here’s the first batch of Prizes (Art/Photography/Books):
- 6 art photography prints - 3 each of 2 - Christina Perdue
- 15 x 13 Limited Edition art print - Melissa Roberts
- 16 x 24 poster of one of my photos - Mike Cavaroc
- Whatever Wall Clock - Kim and Jason
- Photo wallpaper measuring 6 foot x 6 foot - Better Wallpaper
- Flickr Pro Upgrade - Cheap Shooter
- 3 books of the winner’s choice - Meryl Evans - Content Maven
- The Google Story (book) + $10 - No Full Stop
- A Little Twist of Texas book + postcards from travels - Raven’s Roads
How to Win
All you have to do to put yourself in the running to win one is leave a comment below. Please include the word ‘ArtPhotographyBook’ to help us moderate them.
Here’s the full list of prizes, so you can see what might still be coming up in case you’re really interested in something else, however… You can’t win if you don’t enter, so keep that in mind also!
Update
All sponsors and winners have been notified by email - check your inbox (and your spam box)!
If you haven’t yet received a prize, try our next 8 hour competition, or check the Birthday Prize Giveaway category to see what’s going on right now!
Written on October 5th, 2007 at 11:10 pm by Lara Kulpa
Are you Ready to Win some Cash? The enternetusers Giveaway continues!
Much like the opportunity to win the iPods the other day, this giveaway requires you to do only one very simple thing, and you can do it right here in the comments section of this post. But first…
The Prizes:
All are listed in US Dollars unless otherwise mentioned.
- $50 cash - [Geeks are Sexy] Technology News
- $300 cash - 1 Cool File (make sure you click on that name… they’ve got even more special offers for enternetusers readers!)
- $25 Amazon Gift Certificate - Another Old Movie Blog
- $25 Amazon Gift Certificate - Baz
- $250 cash - BlogFlux
- $50 cash or a Amazon Gift Certificate - Blogging With Cents
- $501 cash - Chitika
- $25 Amazon Gift Certificate - Freelance Writing Jobs
- $200 cash - Genealogy Reviews Online
- $333.33 Cash - Grown Up Geek
- $20 Amazon Gift Certificate - Lulu
- $300 cash - Publicity Hound
- $35 Amazon Gift Certificate - Sea Slugs! Anime Blog
- $150 cash - Simple Kind Of Life
- $500 cash (for each of TWO winners - $1000 total) - SKY FM Radio
- $50 Amazon Gift Certificate - Viral Electronics
- 50 pesos, 2 Jamaican dollars, 5 Canadian dollars, 50 American dollars, and an unused NFL Pro Bowl Ballot from 1994 - Wall Street Fighter
How To Enter:
In the comments section of this post (and you’re welcome to post your entry on your blog if you wish, but it’s not required as long as you’ve posted it here) finish this statement: “If I had a million dollars…”
Sure, we don’t have a million, but we’ve got quite a bit here to give away! $3,364.33 just in cash and Amazon Gift Certificates (and another couple bucks in non-American money with a bonus NFL Pro Bowl Ballot that we have no idea the monetary value of) to be exact!
So there you have it. Be funny, silly, serious, it doesn’t matter! Just finish that statement in the comments section of this post and you’re entered to win one of the above prizes.
Rules: One entry per person. If you have already won something from one of our other giveaways, you are not eligible to win. Winning one of the prizes listed above will prevent you from being able to win any other prizes for the duration of the giveaway.
Winners are chosen at random using a random number generator. You may not “pick” the prize you want, we will award them in the order that we receive the random winners.
This contest begins at 9am on Friday, October 5, EST (New York, USA) and ends on Saturday, October 6 at 9am EST (Again, New York, USA). We will close comments at that time.
PS: We are about to turn the enternetusers Birthday Bash into OVERDRIVE! Up til this point we’ve been giving prizes away every 24 hours - but in a few hours we’re going to accelerate the pace a little and the giveaways will start coming every 8 hours (with a few more 24 hour ones thrown in) until the end of the weekend!
Make sure you’re subscribed to our feed now or you’ll miss out!
Update
This one’s closed, and winners have all been notified by email.Check out our newest 24 hour giveaway, or see what’s going on in the 8 hour collections!
Written on October 5th, 2007 at 04:10 pm by Darren Rowse
How Old Are You? POLL
Time for this week’s poll. This week I’m asking a pretty basic demographic question:
How Old Are You?
I’m asking this because I’ve heard a number of people recently speak about blogging as a young person’s thing - however in talking to many enternetusers readers I’ve found that the age range is quite broad.
How spread are the ages of enternetusers readers? We’ll soon find out.
If you’re reading this in RSS you’ll need to come on over and vote here.
Looking forward to seeing the results on this one!
Written on October 5th, 2007 at 12:10 pm by Darren Rowse
How to Know When A Post from Your Blog is Submitted to Digg
Amit has a great tip to help you keep on top of whether a post from your blog might have been submitted by one of your readers on Digg.
It basically entails searching for your URL on Digg and then subscribing to the RSS feed of that search. Sometimes it’s the simplest tips that are the best ones.
Why would you want to know if your post has been submitted? Well for starters it’s interesting to know what your readers think is Diggable - but it can also help you to give the Digging a little extra help by adding a digg button or link to the Digg page in question so that your readers can give it a kick along.
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