HOW TO IMPROVE HIT COUNT: LEFTY LESSON ONE
Mark Bahnisch recently claimed via Crikey that the Larvatus Prodeo blog collective is Australia's "best read political blog." When it dawned on him that LP's numbers, while healthy, are nowhere near "best read" status he quickly offered a correction (sort of):
Second, while Bahnisch does credit Tim Blair with better numbers, he doesn't cite those numbers for comparison and doesn't link to Blair's counter. (The Crikey email linked at top credits LP with 31,612 unique visitors in October [go here to view recently added LP counter]; Blair's counter shows him averaging better than 14,000 visits daily. To put this in perspective, Blair is getting those numbers running a one man show, whereas LP has 22 bloggers on its roster.)
Anyway, I reckon LP has yet to recover from losing its number one attraction, Chris Sheil, "the most prominent lefty blogger" in Australia, if not the world.
Bahnisch has, however, adopted a traffic-improving strategy widely used by super-popular bloggers (Antony Loewenstein, for example): linking comments at other blogs (scroll down):
Update: Go here for the latest.
I’ve asked for a correction to “one of the best read blogs” as I’m aware that Tim Blair’s readership is higher than ours. But I’m really pleased with the growth we’ve enjoyed over the year.Two things are worth noting here. First, in Bahnisch's highly educated mind "best read political blog" has morphed into "one of the best read blogs." Interesting.
Second, while Bahnisch does credit Tim Blair with better numbers, he doesn't cite those numbers for comparison and doesn't link to Blair's counter. (The Crikey email linked at top credits LP with 31,612 unique visitors in October [go here to view recently added LP counter]; Blair's counter shows him averaging better than 14,000 visits daily. To put this in perspective, Blair is getting those numbers running a one man show, whereas LP has 22 bloggers on its roster.)
Anyway, I reckon LP has yet to recover from losing its number one attraction, Chris Sheil, "the most prominent lefty blogger" in Australia, if not the world.
Bahnisch has, however, adopted a traffic-improving strategy widely used by super-popular bloggers (Antony Loewenstein, for example): linking comments at other blogs (scroll down):
Posted by Mark Bahnisch of http://larvatusprodeo.net on Wed 08 Nov 06 at 10:08pmTwo links in one comment. Classy, no?
Kim’s out celebrating but I thought I’d post a trackback link to a post she wrote which refers to this one, and provides additional criticism of Bolt’s blog.
The post is here.
Update: Go here for the latest.
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Not to mention that Blair has a significant readership in the US which would account for a substantial number of his hits. I doubt that LP is a popular blog on the other side of the Pacific.
Our political blog has over 14,600 readers! What about us?
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