At the beginning of 2008 we set out goals for our blog to have accomplished by the end of year. If yo do not set goals for your blogs then you probably won’t achieve them. We will be posting our 2009 goals this month as I suggest you do.
Here is how we did…
624Â posts to be made…
We made 664 posts in 2008.
200 RSS subscribers to be achieved…
We had 522 subscribers in 2008.
3,000Â comments to be reached…
We reached 2991 comments in 2008.
120,000Â unique visitors to be reached…
We reached 109097 unique visitors in 2008.
2,500,000 pages views to be reached…
We reached 1,742,088 page views in 2008.
I would say we did very well and got very close to our goals. If I were to give us a grade for achieving our blog goals it would be an A-.
What grade would you give?
Shane
January 7, 2009 5:21 pm
I wish my report cards were that good :-). If you want more comments you need to start leaving your posts slightly less “finished” if you know what I mean. By leaving something for the readers to fill in you will insight more comments on your posts.
Just a thought. (2991 + 1 comments now :p)
blogadmin
January 8, 2009 12:13 pm
Interesting. Do you have an example?
Shane McCallum
January 8, 2009 12:44 pm
No specific examples come immediately to mind, I just find that most BlueFur blog posts, aside from poll posts, read more like articles. I don’t feel that most of the posts really incite people to comment, there just doesn’t seem to be an “air” of open dialogue. Very few posts even pose questions to readers or in any way encourage the reader to post his or her opinion or experience on a topic. I hope that helps explain things a bit better and I will keep my eye out for a good example.