So the other day, I wrote my article about EEStor super capacitors. I then posted the next day to say how pleased I was to get 88 visitors, which was more than twice my daily record. Since then, my friend and fellow CNET moderator Matthew Hughes showed me the benefit of adding links to your blog posts on the social news site Reddit. Before I continue, let’s just remember – I was excited to have 88 visitors in one day. So here’s the Reddit effect on my blog (graph created by Piwik):
The effect of submitting my blog posts to Reddit
Update:
Since posting this, my daily count had reset and begun again because it was midnight. Having slept and woke up 6 hours later, I’ve seen that my count for today is already at 1000. Who knows where it’ll end up by the end of the day. I’m really amazed and pleased!
If you didn’t know, I don’t write this site by hand I have open source software on my webserver called WordPress. Recently the latest version, 2.7, of WordPress was released, and along with it are some fantastic new features.
I upgraded this site, and foreverfifteen.com (which is a site I help out with), and also installed it as-new for my good friend Rachael Eldritch-Böersen, on tweeduizendzes.nl. Manually upgrading was rather intimidating, seeing as I had not done it before, although it seems that it was the first and last time I’d need to do it, because with the advent of WordPress 2.7, it can no upgrade itself when new versions are released.
Anyway, without further ado, you can sit back and releax and watch a video to tell you all about WordPress 2.7.
I use Piwik to watch how much my blog is being visited, and I’ve noticed a recent surge in unique visitors. Therefore, I’d just like to greet and thank you all for stopping by!
Since this blog was officially launched I made sure I at least got one major article posted, that being the VX Revolution review. Hopefully, next week will follow up with a steady flow of content. That being the case, I thought it would be good to let you know what to expect.
In terms of upcoming material, I have some old material from my LiveJournal which I shall be reposting here (and deleting from the LiveJournal). Although some of those pieces are actually so long, that I am breaking them ~500 word sections and serialising them. Also, as mentioned before, I am also researching a piece about social bookmarking. I will probably not publish that until the older material has gone out first. Between now and then, I’m considering whether to try and get this upcoming story (when it’s done) published on a bigger site. In which case I probably won’t post it here, but I shall certainly post a link to it. If it does get posted here, I may well serialise that too.
I have some other types of serialised content in mind, but you’ll just have to wait and see!
I want to become a good, and well read, blogger, and I know that my personal qualities tick all but one of the boxes to achieve it. The one short coming I do have is that I am not a consistent writer, I have patches where I will produce a lot of material, and then long periods of nothing. So, I am hoping that the scheduled publishing facility in WordPress will help smooth out my output, and make the reading of my material more satisfying for you.
P.S.
As and when I do any major work on the blog itself, I shall still post about it. Not only do I like to have a record of what I’ve done, but I also like to think that blogging about blogging could be of interest to other people who are starting out like I am.
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