The problem with RSS (aside from only being used by nerds) is that it is almost untrackable. Sure there’s Feedburner and Google Analytics can tell you how many people came to your blog specifically through clickthroughs. But when you’ve got the whole post right there in your reader, why would you ever want to clickthrough to… Read more »
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Top 10 iPhone Apps for Web Designers
This is a guest post by Jan Pierce - a 4th grade teacher who has over 20 years of experience in the classroom. Her interests include educational technology and online learning. She also owns the site Elementary Education Degree for students interested in earning a degree in elementary education. 1. Ego – This is an essential… Read more »
5 months of blog traffic in 4 days
On Thursday I published my most popular post to date Why programmers work at night. After writing I was certain it wasn’t that interesting, sure it might be HN frontpage worthy – it never got there – but other than that I felt it wasn’t a very informative post, just musings of a hacker who has… Read more »
So how many readers _actually_ read a blog post?
Knowing how many readers a blog gets is pretty important for any blog writer. We like to pretend it doesn’t even matter, put on a face of “Oh well, I’m just writing this for myself, you know, to get the word out, I don’t really care if anyone reads it” What a bunch of hipsters!… Read more »
Being hacked killed a 6k traffic spike on my blog yesterday
Yesterday I wrote a blog boldly proclaiming one shouldn’t be a quiet professional. I felt it wasn’t very inspired and lacked a certain amount of substance, but the internet apparently had a different idea of its value. All it took to get it on the frontpage of HackerNews was posting the link on twitter …… Read more »