1 comment » The first 3 days of blog lifeIt would be interesting to chronicle the first few days of YankeeBlogSwap.com to show people what an RSS Pieces blog can doWhat RSS Pieces Knows About SEO, Google and TrafficI’m not one for self promotional pieces, but I’m breaking my own rule today, because, well, I recently read a comment that basically said blogging isn’t about traffic or leads or search engine positioning. I can’t remember what the comment said blogging WAS about, but does it really matter? I mean, if you are going to invest hours each week into penning insightfully witty blogs, don’t you want to know what the ROI is? Don’t you want to know that all that marketing effort will convert, at some point, to money in your pocket? I know I do. In fact, I’m pretty obsessed with my metrics. So much so, that when I planned the Yankee Blog Swap (on a whim, I might add), I thought, it would be interesting to chronicle the first few days of our new property, YankeeBlogSwap.com to show people what an RSS Pieces blog can do? The YankeeBlogSwap Baby Book: the First 3 Days of Life of an RSS Pieces BlogDecember 12, 2006RSS Pieces found out is was pregnant with our first child, YankeeBlogSwap.com. OK, we just purchased the domain on Decembner 19th, but it was way more exciting to announce it my way! December 13-16, 2006Blogs, much like fruit flies, have a very short gestation period. December 17, 2006RSS Pieces gives birth to a bouncing baby blog! I launched the site live into the wild wild web and added a few pages of content.
Today, 48 unique visitors checked out our new baby and our server recorded 956 page views. The doctor says you are healthy:Dr. Widexl says you have perfect meta tag relevancy and you are well on your way to growing into a perfectly SEOed blog. Who thinks you’re cute, today?Within one minute of having posted my first blog on the site, Google crawled it and within 20 minutes, Yahoo Slurp had dropped by. December 18, 2006Who came to see you:Today, 200 unique visitors checked out our new baby and our server recorded 1541 page views. Close family and friends come to visit us in the hospital! All our blog swap participants were notified that they could come and visit the site to login to the back end and add their personal profile. Google, Yahoo, Ask and MSN continue to crawl each new post only moments after it’s creation. Who thinks you’re cute, today?By evening, 14 pages of the blog are visible within Google’s primary index. See our indexed pages here: Indexed Pages by Google December 19, 2006Your birth announcement:Wow, the whole world wide web knows all about YankeeBlogSwap.com! OK, I did announce the blog event site with a little press release on PRWeb. Who came to see you:Today, 382 unique visitors checked out our new baby and our server recorded 1720 page views. Who thinks you’re cute, today?Yahoo shows 14 incoming links MSN live had 100 incoming links Google blog search indexed 29 pages and recorded 48 backlinks Technorati records 64 links from 27 blogs How much could we get for you on the blog black market?Related PostsDo you know the 6 signs of blog death?ActiveRain Talks Social Networking MYTH: single property websites drive traffic Pimp my blog: become a guilty pleasure PODCAST: Damion Flynn, MS Realtor http://www.rsspieces.com/0002CC 
Posted on December 20, 2006 13:01:29
Comment from: David Smith [Visitor]  · http://www.barbaralasky.com/tucson-real-estate-blog/A Happy Healthy Welcome to the baby blog. Only three days old and already worth so much. Most of us parents are used to our babies costing that much after just three days. Congratulations on your blogbirth, may you live long and prosper. I'm sure you won't know what that means or where it comes from, maybe Mom can explain it to you when you are older.  Permalink December 20, 2006 23:21:29Comment on this article This post has no feedback awaiting moderation... |
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