We bloggers like to track our site data, including visits, page views, and where they come from. In fact, we’re real concerned with where they come from. One thing that is often overlooked, however, is where we send people. One of the neatest ways to measure this is to find a smaller, newer blog that gets only a few hits and then send a link that way. Then check their stats.

For example, I linked yesterday to TN Political. I checked his stats and see, basically, the effect of an UncleLanche (more like a trickle, really). He averages about 30 to 50 page views a day and yesterday he got about 145. So, I’ll call the effect 100. Of course, there were other referrals as well. That post was a congratulatory post.

Now, if I link to a smaller blog and mention there’s gun stuff there, the effect on traffic is greater. Alston averages about 30 to 50 page views a day as well, yet it looks to me like the effect of an UncleLanche involving guns is about 200 page views. And, of course, there were other referrals as well.

So, uh, more gun stuff?

And, yes, my example is oversimplified. And no I’m not a statistician. And if you feel the need to tell me the many errors in my assumptions, feel free.

Update: For context, I figure my recent Instalanche sent about 8,000 people my way but the resulting links from other blogs added several thousand more. The KABA link about 500. Totalfark sent a few hundred. So, I’m still small taters.

Posted in uncategorized on December 14th, 2005 by SayUncle | RSS 2.0 |