NBI by the Numbers
Since we are halfway through the month of May and the Newbie Blogger Inititative, here are a couple of numbers I could collect around the event and its influence to my blog and my blogging environment. If you end up comparing these numbers to your own blog you need to consider a few factors:
- Your blogging frequency
- Your activity on social media
- How well established is your blog at the search engines
In short, this is just a glimpse ino this blogs specific situation.
| before NBI | today | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visitors | 50/d | 50/d | Bloggers use RSS readers, search engines need time to index and pick up on increased popularity |
| RSS Subscriptions | 9 | 33 | That’s the important number. People will notice a new post on their reader, ignore, read or click through to comment |
| Twitter Followers | 14 | 51 | My Twitter account has only blogging related followers and I follow only gaming news and fellow bloggers |
| Spam | 302/m | 406/m | 203 spam comments in May so far |
| Comments | 20/m | 22/m | largely dependent on number of posts, and how often I’ll answer. |
| Trackback/ Pingback | 1 | 4 | 4 in 2 weeks vs. 1 in 4 months |
| Inbound Links | 800 total | 1328 | 1073 links to the main page = blogroll links and 250 article links |
| RSS reader entries | 15 | 161 | And that list isn’t up to date, yet |
| Articles by NBI members | 2540 | Which makes you speechless | |
| #nbimmo or #mmonbi | 162 | That’s the number of tweets containing either tag. including use of both tags and re-tweets. Call it 120 unique tweets |
Some more remarks
Inbound links are difficult to interpret, since the main page links are most likely blog roll appearances, but Google sees those links on every single page of the blog, be it front page, archive pages or single article pages. Article links face other difficulties like links coming from dynamic blog rolls, like the one I am using myself.
In general I have to say that I’ve found my community. Getting into the newbie blogger initative made it pretty easy for me to find fellow bloggers, willing to interact with me. Of course, this would have happened eventually by following all blog rolls of my friends and following all comment authors on other blogs, but it would have taken 6 months or so.
Now I am looking forward to the second half of #mmonbi / #nbimmo
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Battlechicken’s Challenge
As part of the Newbie Blogger Initative Battlechicken has challenged the bloggers to tell her Why We Do What We Do, preferably in pictures. Here’s a small collection of my characters, the result of 12 years playing MMOs, who is answering the question.
 Feliz: I am a yodel bard |
 Sambaugh: Watching your back |
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 Dimo: I heard they had cheese and pimp hats |
 Minsk: Barfights and barmaids! |
 Plintenegger: I’ve got Death Touches |
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 Plinkocommie: Goblins of Azeroth unite! |
 Dimkski: The Lich King is dead |
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 Shamble: Looking into a radiant future |
 Dime: There’s a vision, always was, always will |
 Shambles: I am your father, Feliz |
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