No Sheep: Traffic Milestone 5M
March 25, 2007 | 2 Comments
This Friday No Sheep broke the milestone of 5,000,000 reads tracked with BSuite! This is an achievement far exceeding my expectations when I first launched this blog.
On November 10th, 2004 NoSheep was launched. Initially the site ran on Geek Log, but my passion for this platform was lack luster. Between November and February I posted a mere 9 articles before stopping. It wasn’t until June of 2005 when I converted to WordPress that I became excited and passionate about my site.
Since then I have had the pleasure of seeing my readership grow substantially. Currently FeedBurner has tracked a high point of 435 feed subscribers in a single day. In the last month I have consistently enjoyed an Alexa rank in the top 100,000. Additionally my Technorati rank has hovered at under 60,000.
Thanks to all the readers, commenters, and contributors!
Tags: alexa, bsuite, feedburner, no sheep, nosheep, technorati
FeedBurner
May 18, 2006 | 5 Comments
Reading an article about Blog optimization yesterday (I lost the link…), I was pointed at a service called FeedBurner. Basically you install a plugin that takes over managing your RSS feed. So, you’re thinking, “I have an RSS feed, it works, who cares?” Well I thought the same thing and this is what sparked my curiosity.
It turns out FeedBurner rocks!
Before I go to far into why I love this service, first let me say, it is a breeze to install and enable. So, not trying it out is just plain lazy. If you don’t like it, come back and tell me why in the comments, but anyway, it’s easy to install so have at it.
The first of the two main features I like is getting statistics on who’s reading and clicking through to my stuff from feeds. The graphs are pretty and I now have an idea about readership through readers.
The second is the cool stuff they can add to the bottom of articles in feeds. Open up your reader and look at my feed. Along the bottom are some links like “Add a Comment”, “Email This”, “Digg This!”, etc. You can have FeedBurner add all kinds of sweet stuff to your articles, these are called FeedFlares.
My final comment on the service is that the overall style of the interface they use is awesome. Their help text is personable and entertaining while pointing useful things out and giving great help.
Tags: aggregate, blog, blogging, feed, feed burner, feedburner, feedflare, plugin, rss, wordpress