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Sources of icons: IE & Firefox
After reading Donna from Blogging Tips article about how it is Ok to be a StatsAHolic, I have decided to embrace my stat watching habit and post about one of them, reader’s browsers. What browser are most of your users using?
Pingable Browser Percentages
81.62% - Firefox
12.67% - Internet Explorer
03.43% - Safari
01.19% - Opera
What Might Browser Stat’s Suggest About Your Blog?
More technical savvy users are more likely not to be using Internet Explorer. So if your topic is related to a technical subject, you should expect that most of your readers will be using a Non-IE browser. If your stat’s show a different picture then maybe your readers aren’t who you thought. Although you should be careful about reading too much into these sorts of figures, it may give you something to think about.
Why Should You Use Firefox?
After looking at the figures above I feel like I am preaching to the converted, but…
This article will discuss success ranking systems within the blogosphere, and then give ideas about how to manipulate and benefit from them.
TEN - Technorati Favorites
Although I don’t think this is a particularly useful metric, having a lot of people who have added your blog as a favorite on Technorati may get you some traffic. It also shows potential readers that others think your blog is good.
How can it be manipulated?
Very easily. There have been, and continue to be, plenty of exchanges set up for swapping Technorati “add to favorites”. i.e., “You add me and I will add you.” Here is one such popular example: DoshDosh. I doubt it is worth it though, as because it is so easily manipulated it doesn’t hold any real weight.
NINE - Blog Catalog Rank
Blog catalog is a fairly large online community, where as a blogger you are free to promote your blog as shamelessly…
Here are my top 3 articles for the Blue Jar “How To” Contest.
How To Track New RSS Subscribers Google Analytics in 3 Easy Steps by Rhys
7 Steps To Creating a Successful Community by Karthik
How To Pull In Quick Cash With a Myspace Resource Site by Levi
I am not going to say anything about them, because I want you to read the full articles. They are well worth a read, and so are many of the other articles in this project. My entry was: How to make your Wordpress blog safer.
Why You Should Blog:
To build a brand.
To build a profile for yourself.
To become an expert.
Because you learn.
To express your opinion.
To catalogue your expertise.
Create conversation on topics that matter to you.
Create connections with others like you.
To test ideas.
To obtain free market research.
To rank high in search engines.
To create work or income opportunities.
Get feedback.
Why I Blog:
I want to make Pingable a brand.
I enjoy writing about the topics I blog about.
I enjoy learning, you never stop learning, and I learn a lot when I blog.
I like the feeling you get from creating.
I enjoy reading and writing.
I don’t use Facebook, Myspace or Beebo, I need something to do when I am online.
Assuming that only English speaking readers will be interested in your content is a mistake. Until recently I never considered the possibility that non English speakers could be an audience for this blog. So how do you go about making your content more accessible to those who speak other languages?
Internet language use statistics
Languages # | Users | % of Internet
English | 235 m | 38.3 %
Chinese | 69 m | 11.2 %
Japanese | 61.4 m | 10 %
German | 42 m | 6.8 %
Spanish | 32.7 m | 5.5 %
Korean | 25.2 m | 4.1 %
Italian | 24 m | 3.9 %
French | 22 m | 3.5 %
Portuguese | 19 m | 3.1 %
Russian | 18.1 m | 3 %
Dutch | 12.4 m | 2 %
Polish | 6.7 m | 1.1 %
Swedish | 6 m | 1 %
Arabic | 5.7 m | 1 %
Source: Translate To Success
English is the most common language spoken on the Internet, but it is still only 38% of the total users on…
