Whats going on over at the feedburner factory? It seems they have downsized over half of the amount of Rss subscribers of the world’s most popular blogs, and us! We were sitting on a healthy 700+ subscribers yesterday, while today is showing nearly

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Funny list of habits you could fall into when owning your own website.

1. Half of your pageviews is you, checking your stats

2. When you are on the internet not checking your stats, you are reading articles about getting better stats.

3. Each 1000th visitor is celebrated on your blog.

And twelve more.

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Have you ever wondered how many blogs are actually abandoned?  Or have you ever wondered how many people take LONG breaks from their blogs?  Well, I decided to test out this theory and go through random searches for blogs and gather my stats to show everyone. 

I broke it down into four main categories:

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All bloggers are guilty in tracking their stats - it is a simple fact of life. We try to get as many possible angles as possible and install multitude of tracking plugins, add external code that will help us analyze the performance of our blog.

But all those packages intorduce a huge delay to page load speed. As I have

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With this blog suddenly starting to be read by more and more people, I wanted to kind of start tracking how it’s doing overall, what’s working and how the growth has been. And also report back to you.

Why?

I haven’t done this before, mostly because I really didn’t set out with a big plans other than to learn how to run a blog and make i

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Throughout my time as a blogger I have heard various opinions on the importance of tracking website stats. One side of the argument is that stats are a time waster - they will only use up your valuable minutes and hours by looking at numbers. The other side of the argument is that checking stats is a motivational tool used to get you inspired

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Stats! Don't you just love 'em? I know I do and ever since starting my first blog I've been addicted to checking my stats. In fact, I had to wean myself off checking them several times a day, and have now narrowed my stats packages to just four. Here they are.

By far the most useful is Clicky, which I can now install on a

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See proof that a new site can gain massive traffic in one week with minimal effort. Take a new site from ranking in the millions to being within the top 100,000 on Alexa rankings in just one week.

This growth was achieved without any gaming, and has not had any real Buzz applied to it. In the next couple of days I'll detail how I achieved

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Ok… a few of my readers have been asking me about social networking and social bookmarking.

Just so you know, I’ve been using social marketing as a means to drive traffic to blog since September this year. I was stunned by the results of my case study. I wrote an article last night and then posted it to my favourite Social Networking sites

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I just knew Google Analytics can send us scheduled email report (daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly) for your web stats in the file formats of PDF, XML, CSV and TSV.

To setup the scheduled email report, perform the following steps:-

1. Select the Report that you want to schedule
2. Click the email button below the “Dashboard” title (ref

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I’m talking about stats up to ….. I’m serious. I track everything including ad campaigns, leads, ROI, even search engine traffic, and so much more. I can’t talk enough about how important web tracking is. Pull my website source page and see that I h

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We all want our website to be working hard for us. We talk about SEO and the importance of it. We spend money on advertising campaigns. We spend hours generating content. Despite all of this we may see no evidence of progress. We may not be getting any more sales or even leads than normal but whilst that lets us know something

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With several stat-tracking tools available across the web, it can be overwhelming to find the one(s) that best suit your website. Learn about some of my favorite tools for tracking my website's stats.. The tools range for the basic and super simple to those that are more comprehensive. Read about the differences and similarit

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Pitching is something that wins games and loses them. Pitching techniques are important for a game. The better pitching techniques are outlined very basicly in a nutshell in this article.

Pitching techniques involve things like stance and getting the most power out of a pitch with a specific stance to stay grounded as well. I hope you find

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This is an article basically detailing how my blog, which received only 34 unique visitors in February, 2007, has gone up to receiving over 5,000 unique visitors a month in under a year. I know there are hundreds of articles out there that discuss increasing blog traffic, but this one mentions and focuses on the one most impo

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