A major milestone today with my 100th post. Has taken longer than I originally hoped, but I have made it – better still, with the motivation and energy to continue.
Let me run the tape measure over the blog and share some numbers with you to mark the event.
The productivity has not been what I originally hoped for – the 100 posts have come in 346 days, so averaging a little over 2 per week. I suspect this was more a reflection of my unrealistic expectations of output back at the start.
If you are reading this and thinking about starting a blog – set realistic expectations about your output.
There have been almost 4,400 page views and a little over 2,000 visits. Interesting to see from the stats that it identified 965 unique visitors.
The global reach of this media still amazes me some days. I have had visits from 55 countries – most significant are;
- Australia, 44%
- UK, 14%
- USA, 12%
- Norway, 7% (Jan Husdal probably contributes most of these)
- Canada, 6%
- South Africa, 4%
- New Zealand, 2%
I have been suprised (and a little disappointed I guess) by what the most read posts have been. The Virgin Blue IT DR failure has been the #1 search term and the #2 single page view.
I am happy that the #1 single page view was “non-routine risk and resilience” and the #2 search term related to the new Australian BCM Standard (AS/NZS 5050).
One of the primary motivations for writing is to engage in conversation with those who read the posts. Like many other bloggers I would prefer to get more comments. So far I have 133 comments on the first 99 posts – I follow a policy of responding to all comments so I guess half of that number are from me.
The most discussed posts so far;
- mind your own business continuity
- wanting your life back
- the meaning of resilience is vague
- bouncing back and breaking
- new BCM process (AS/NZS 5050 Pt3)
it would be great if the comments and discussion grew here. I will keep working to find some posts that will stimulate more discussions.
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Congratulations, Ken. A consistent 2 posts per week shows that you are dedicated to your blog, and it really takes some effort to turn into such a prolific blogger despite all the other work obligations you probably have.
I guess I really do account for 7% of your visitors, because just for the fun of it I went over my outgoing links, and I didn’t find any other Norwegians going to your blog, but many other countries. That said, other Norwegians could still find you by other means.
It can be fun and puzzling and disappointing at the same time to analyze one’s visitor stats to see why and how people come to your site and what they read. Some of what I consider my finest posts aren’t always the most read, and vice versa. The search phrases leading people to my blog can sometimes leave me quite baffled as to why my blog would show up for that phrase.
Speaking of which, some of the visitors I sent your way came to my blog by searching for “ken simpson blog” or “contemplating blog” … I must be mentioning you too often I guess, and Google picks up on that.
Anyway, Happy Anniversary, and keep on blogging!
Thanks Jan, keep sending the traffic – doesn’t matter how it gets to you!
I must weigh in on Jan’s comments. It is true, my best posts are not always the most read. But I’ve taken than information and tried to provide meet my audience’s requirements. I have a few posts (not written by me) about ERM at Hydro One, ISO 31000 and 4360 which get a lot of hits because they come up in searches.
My other post called Twilight Risk Management was hugely popular but I suspect the 14 year old girls who found it on Google didn’t read it. But it padded the stats.
And finally as Ken pointed out a few weeks ago, a post with a catchy title or one that includes terms like “porn risk management” or “Playboy” don’t do too badly. And now that I’ve included these terms in Ken’s comments field, he might get a few more hits too.