September Blog Stats
I’ve yet to find any bloggers who post their stats like I do. I started doing it because Matt Cutts from Google did it. And I thought, "Why not be honest?" You see, in the old days, I used to be "economical with the truth." (A Dutch colleague of mine used to say that a lot. I’ve always liked it.)
Yes, I was guilty of rounding. A lot. If I got 51 visitors a day, I told people 100. But now I just tell it like it is. And show you pictures too!
September was a good month for my little London restaurant blog. The third best month ever. But not as good as July.
Here were my top five non-Search engine sources of visitors in September:
An American in London
Stonch’s Beer Blog
Mmm-yoso
Cheese & Biscuits
Liqurious They picked up my post about wine made of cheese.
Top five sources of blog visitors who are new to me…
Liqurious
Mmm-yoso
Very Good Taste
Cheese & Biscuits
Chowhound
What else happened in September…working backwards…
I ran into Heston Blumenthal and made an ass of myself
I went to cooking school and LIKED it. So much so that I’m going back this Friday.
I had cheese and cheesy wine with Qype and company
I hung out with a ton of food and wine bloggers at a TrustedPlaces meetup at Cantaloupe. It was a bit too dark for photos, but check out Niamh’s post over here.
And some other things…you know I’m still testing Nokia viNe. With the fantabulous Nokia N82. I gotta be honest. I’m an enthusiastic beta tester. But it’s been a month and they’ve yet to hook up my username. So I keep snapping away for nothing. Nothing. Sad.
I went on over to the London Bloggers Meetup last night. Very briefly, because I was meeting friends at a restaurant later. Although it was sponsored by Smirnoff, I still convinced them to pour me a Guinness. Just barely.
Hmmm. That’s mostly it. What do you have to look forward to in October? Madeira! With my mom and her friends. But that’s all I have in the diary so far…
Oct 01, 2008
Hi Krista,
For what it’s worth, I don’t publicize my stats the way you do because I’m not very handy with creating pretty graphics. WordPress has lots of stats, but it would take a lot of motivation for me to figure out how to export those stats in an image format suitable for a blog post.
But I’ll work on it. Your blog is one of my top sources of referrals too, so I should find a way to give you that shout out on my blog. It’s only good manners. : )
Oct 02, 2008
Your stats are so good though Krista! My graph would be too small to post…
Oct 02, 2008
I’m so glad the Liqurious post brought you lots of readers and lots of -new- readers! — I’m the one who put it there.
(It’s my new freelance gig, in addition our own food blog…)
Oct 06, 2008
Hi! It was so nice to meet you at the Blogger Meet-up last week.
(Yeah, I’m a slacker that’s just NOW getting around to checking out everyone’s blogs…)
I hope to see you again at the next one. In the meantime, I’m enjoying your blog! Absolutely awesome