Novel methods and ways are there to replace the traditional methods to analyze the performance and growth of your blog. These methods are helpful in engaging the audience than to bring more and more traffic to your blog. Still there is no valuable solution to understand the behavior of the visitors and to engage them to visit your blog or website as these methods are in their development stages. Are you concentrated only on the page views and visitors of your blog?
Here are some of the five methods or trends that are ignored by the beginners that can give proper data about the reach and visibility of the blog. All these methods depend upon the reader’s direct or indirect engagement that enables you to understand the strong and weak zones of your blog.
Comments per Post
Maximum number of comments per post shows that the community is highly engaged through your blog. Normally the number of active commentators is far less than the number of visitors on the blog daily. When the blog is getting higher number of comments with less traffic, then the blog will be in a better position than the blog with high traffic and without any comments. Active commentators make your blog active among similar minded community by encouraging discussions and these commentators represent the core-readership of your blog. In order to attract more comments and to build a live community around your blog, rewarding commentators is an excellent tactic.
Feed Subscription Growth Rate (Per Month)
The number of feed subscribers represents the quality of the blog and this is one of the most important metrics. In almost every media kit, the important statistics present the subscriber count while approaching direct advertisers. The metric is not so important, if your blog is comparatively new with absence in SERP’s. This metric will become important only when you develop a decent readership and traffic to your blog. Numerous different factors such as the audience size, niche of your blog, quality of the content and your interaction with your subscribers are all depend up on the growth of subscribers. You have to closely watch the number of subscribers increasing each month. You can analyze the growth in a better way by accumulating the data for about 6 months and then you can take necessary steps to increase the viewers.
References
Backlinks are important to get good rankings in SERP’s and only quality blogs will get backlinks naturally. As the popularity of your blog increases, the chances of referring the content of the blog by another person increases. The quality of the links are important than the number of backlinks acquired by your blog each month. Try different methods to acquire backlinks which will provide you with the necessary boost in search engine rankings. Find out the number of backlinks received each month and you should thank all them who link to your blog.
Social Media Boost
Strategies of blog promotion have changed dramatically since the social media has gone to mainstream. Social media channels bring large traffic daily and you have to ensure to keep a track of all the major traffic pulling sources through this medium. Social media referral is one of the vital metrics that helps in expanding the reach of your blog even if you are using stumbleupon to bring traffic or twitter for blog marketing. To get maximum benefit from this powerful medium, there are many ways to analyze social media traffic.
Emails of readers
Emails from your readers are also important for the growth of your blog like comments. Regular emails from the readers indicate the trust and acknowledgment of your knowledge on the subject. Most of the readers are emailing you to ask for advice, to suggest an idea or to get a solution to their problem. You can develop a strong communication with the readers by entertaining each and every mail received by you. This communication also provides a foundation to provide a core-readership to your blog and the popularity of your blog will increase through mouth to mouth. If you can add readers by commenting or through communication, then it will definitely benefit you in the long run.
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