Comments on: 10 Blog Success Metrics and How They Can be Manipulated

By: Tom Horton @ StartOutOnline

Tom Horton @ StartOutOnline — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:37:56 +0000

Hi
Increasing my page rank is what I’m concentrating on at the moment.When I started my blog 3 months ago my alexa rank was something like 3 and a half million, now it is 898,106 and dropping everyday. Thanks for the info, great post

Tom Horton
http://www.Increase-SignUps.co.uk

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:08:44 +0000

Using the word manipulation in the heading and subheadings was more of an attention grabbing technique. All of the suggestions made are above the table type advice. Nothing too sneaky!

By: Tad Chef

Tad Chef — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:58:37 +0000

It’s not all about “manipulation”. You can improve rank in any of those services with legitimate methods and most bloggers do or at least try.

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:32:15 +0000

Thanks for the encouragement Brian!

By: Brian Purkiss

Brian Purkiss — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:59:46 +0000

It wasn’t a superficial post.
There is simply a lot of ways to measure ‘blog success.’
But I think you hit on the big ones.

My biggies are RSS Subscribers, Page hits, and Technorati rank. (Even though all of those are pretty low for me…)

Keep up the great posts!

By: Madhur Kapoor

Madhur Kapoor — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:35:50 +0000

Nice article . I basically try to focus on traffic , RSS and making money . But i think Alexa have changed there system , this month my traffic increased but alexa rank decresed .

By: Fred | Newest on the Net

Fred | Newest on the Net — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:51:39 +0000

Great article Simon. For my blog I am focused on the following factors,

1. Website Traffic – This is the most important metric. How many people are coming to your blog and how many pages are they looking at.
2. RSS Subscribers – I agree with you that this is the most important metric that you can affect. I also agree that it is the best way to get consistent traffic.
3. Google Page Rank – However, I have yet to be ranked and no one knows if Google is continuing to update this metric.
4. Technorati Authority – This is just so easy to see that it is fun to keep checking it.