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    1. What blogging means to me... And why my blog isn’t popular… The Integral - http://blog.aditto.info © 2009 Aditya Marathe
    2. Agenda
      • About my blog - The Integral
      • Blogging platforms
          • Moving from Blogger to Wordpress
          • Multi-platform blogging, comparison of various platforms
      • What have I blogged about and what people generally read on my blog
      • Blog analytics
          • Some numbers and trends of visitors on my blog
          • Relevance of statistics to me
          • Analytics tools
      • What I must do to increase the visitors hit count
    3. Started blogging in my first year at engineering…
      • Registered on Blogger for a free blog (April 2005)
          • http://adityamarathe.blogspot.com
      • Fascinated by Calculus, the blog was named “The Integral”
          • The place where Life is the curve integrated over various elements that we see in and around us.
      • Wrote mostly on life in hostel and college
      • Migrated to wordpress.com during final year
      • Registered domain for a website and a blog
          • http://www.aditto.info
          • http://blog.aditto.info
    4. Why did I move from Blogger to Wordpress?
      • Wordpress had and still has more blogging tools
          • Import feature from multiple sources
          • Static pages apart from posts
          • Password protection on posts
          • “ Cleaner” look, though Blogger has almost infinite customizable themes!
          • Ad-sense was not a feature that could stop me from moving from Blogger
          • At some point of time, I would like to move to externally hosted Wordpress blog
      • Wordpress is ‘cool’ for blogging
          • Comments handling is far superior
            • ‘ Reply to’ comment email and end with !END straight from Inbox!
          • Wordpress.com is always adding newer features
      Blogging Platforms
    5. Multi-platform blogging, does it make sense?
      • Maintain personal blog on Wordpress
          • http://blog.aditto.info
      • Photo blog on Tumblr
          • http://photos.aditto.info
      • Micro blog on Twitter
          • http://twitter.com/aditto
      Which is an easier option? What factors influence the decision?
      • Find a good paid host
      • Install Wordpress
      • Add some plug-ins
      • Integrate everything
      Blogging Platforms
    6. Twitter and Wordpress are like the two extremes of personal blogging Trust Wordpress / Tumblr to preserve my data more than any paid host, and then I don’t need to pay to host Blogging Platforms Quick opinions / sharing links / get quick news / killing time Photography Articles, incidents, and basically anything substantially / worth sharing What I use it for You can spam! No spam Good Spam management N/A Free Paid Domain mapping Very limited Complete Complete / Limited Customizability Minimal Limited Always growing Features Very easy Fairly easy Not so difficult Ease of use Micro blogging Limited blogging capacity Full feature blogging Platform Twitter Tumblr Wordpress Feature
    7. So what have I blogged about in about 4 yrs?
      • Travel
          • South Korea [2007]
          • East Sikkim [2008]
          • United States [2008]
      • Photography
      • Childhood
          • Memories
            • Phantom Sweet Cigarettes
      • People and Life
          • Eccentricity
          • Conversations
          • Humours
      Inside The Integral
    8. Why do people land on my blog? And what do they check out?
      • Most commonly visited post (since 2008)
          • #177 East Sikkim Trip - April 2008
          • #156 Busan @ 300 kmph... KTX
      • Most common search engine terms (since 2008)
          • Bibimbap
          • South Korean food
          • Seoul
      • Random search terms reaching my blog…
            • cute girls
            • specs frame
            • birthmark in center of palm
            • shock laga laga laga advertisement
      Inside The Integral
    9. Few basic statistics about The Integral
      • Number of posts – 258
      • Comments – 786
      • Categories – 14
      • Hits (since 2007) – 36,000
      But these are not the only trends I love to observe… 49% 27% 3% 3% 2% 2% 14% India USA South Korea Canada Singapore UK Others Blog Analytics
    10. Does the number of hits matter to me?
      • Average hits per day at The Integral: 60 (current)
          • An ordinary blogger gets anything between 10-100 hits a day
          • A very popular blogger gets 100-500 hits a day
          • Marketing blogs can get anywhere from 1K to 1M hits a day!
          • Theme based personal blogs end up getting 100-1000 hits a day
      • Number of subscribers – Whats that?
      • Blogger vs Wordpress when it comes to search results
          • Google indexes Blogspot blogs instantaneously
          • Wordpress.com users always suffer indexing issues
      • But it’s ok! 
      Yes it does matter, but I wont stop blogging even if nobody reads  Blog Analytics
    11. Spikes in the visitors trends? Blogged something PERSONAL Blogged something VERY INTERESTING No blog, hyper active search! Blog Analytics
    12. 77 % of visitors to my blog give it no more than a glance… Blog Analytics    Longer than an hour    From 20 mins to an hour    From 5 mins to 20 mins    From 30 secs to 5 mins    From 5 secs to 30 secs    Less than 5 secs
    13. For a very famous personal blogger too, 57 % visitors stay for less than 5 secs The key however is to increase the number of visitors who spend more than 5 minutes on your blog! Blog Analytics    Longer than an hour    From 20 mins to an hour    From 5 mins to 20 mins    From 30 secs to 5 mins    From 5 secs to 30 secs    Less than 5 secs
    14. There are a lot of free tools to perform good analysis of visitor statistics Wordpress Stats Google Analytics Blog Analytics
    15. To make my blog popular, I must…
      • Visit tons of other blogs, and comment!
      • Write stuff that people want to read…
          • Politics
          • Entertainment (Movies, music)
          • Humour
          • Geeky technology!!
          • Sex
      • Register my blog on tons of social networking and bookmarking sites
      • Write less of personal and more of general stuff
      Isn’t that what a personal blog is meant to be? more less some But I… Blog Popularity
    16. Creating content, and creatively sharing… Creative Commons licenses give you the ability to dictate how others may exercise your copyright rights—such as the right of others to copy your work, make derivative works or adaptations of your work, to distribute your work and/or make money from your work. http://wiki.creativecommons.org Creative Content Sharing
    17. Thank You! The Integral: http://blog.aditto.info Photo Blog: http://photos.aditto.info Email: [email_address] Aditya Marathe

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