By the Numbers – Controlling Interest – a Semi-Rant
April 30, 2009 at 9:24 am Leave a comment
62.28% 13.76% 4.35%
Each of us strives to understand where we are in relation to everyone else. How do we match up… there are IQ test, Q-factors, SAT’s and ACT’s, boxes to check off, list to top. It’s how we are made up, good isn’t good enough, we should be better; and then one day we wake up and it’s not so important anymore. Just being is enough; such is life.
Okay, enough of the real world; it’s time for me to evaluate the performance of this blog. Bloggers are all the same, how can I increase my audience size? What’s working and what’s not? We are obsessed with the numbers, the stats, the number of times you guys, the all-important readers, come to see what we write. This is the controlling power driving our lives.
So how are we doing? In the first quarter of this year we had more hits (visits) to our blog then all of last year. As the purpose of this blog is to persuade you to plan your meals, to aid you in that quest and selflessly to get you over to our website; we are on a good run.
We spend a great deal of time and money to get you here. Our tools include tags, catch words, Google Adwords and what we hope are useful and entertaining posts. We thought we would share with you some of the top searches. Our most frequent hits came from searches for “emeals” which is heartening for us because that is what we are all about. 14% of the readers who found us were looking for posts on chicken. We had a large contingent of readers seeking our tulips photo from the Keukenhof, nothing to do with food and meal planning but a quick respite from the winter blues. Our ciabatta bread seemed to be a hit as was our French Lunch post and let’s not overlook the Vodka sauce.
So the bottom line is that if you like what you read here, tell a friend. If you don’t see it here but want to, send us an email. We appreciate your interest and look forward to continuing to post on topics that are useful.
Entry filed under: Rants, Semi-Rants and Non-Rants. Tags: by the numbers, readers wanted.
Trackback this post | Subscribe to the comments via RSS Feed