Comments on: Blog chest puffing

By: anon

anon — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 00:04:07 +0000

Though my overall numbers are small potatoes to you guys I wanted to comment that I get very few people entering my site via my blog. Most come in through my old fashioned static pages and then with internal links they are directed to my blog.

Since the old fashioned static pages have been around alot longer than my blog, the search engines rank them higher.

So my Google blog is not even ranked (no promotion at all), but I get several hundred people a day coming from search engines to those static pages. So they may not show up in any blog rankings, but these are people coming to my site.

I run a commercial free, non-political blog, I just wanted to share a thought, leave me as anon.

and thanks for a great blog Uncle

By: R. Neal

R. Neal — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 20:21:48 +0000

FYI, “factoid” means a “fact” that is generally assumed to be true but isn’t. Heh. Pedantically yours…

By: SayUncle

SayUncle — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 19:33:47 +0000

Thanks for the info. That criteria would also rule out instapundit. Will read it once it downloads.

By: Bill Hobbs

Bill Hobbs — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 19:21:26 +0000

Prior to shutting it down, my site averaged 30,000 unique visitors per month for a solid 2 years. Don’t know how that compares to the others, just a factoid for you.

It very hard to measure the biggest blog in any niche, because so few blogs stick within a niche. What the magazine actually said was, “Hobbs has the biggest blog readership in the state political sphere.”

If by that they meant that, among blogs that focused primarily on state politics, that would tend to rule out blogs like Sensing’s and SKB’s, which tended to focus on national issues more than Tennessee issues. I haven’t looked at Say Uncle or Les Jones in a long time or Lean Left much at all, so I don’t know if their focus is primarily Tennessee politics/policy. Mine was, and the Business Tennessee article was focused on that aspect of my blog.

So, was I the most-read Tennessee politics-focused blog? I don’t know.

The rest of their sidebar on me was right, though.

The mag’s main story was on Glenn Reynolds. It’s a very good read. The sidebars are here: http://www.billhobbs.com/businesstnbloggerstory.pdf