Comments on: Blogging Performance, part 2

By: Blog Metrics: Frequency of Posts « Manage By Walking Around

Blog Metrics: Frequency of Posts « Manage By Walking Around — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:34:06 +0000

[…] Frequency of Posts For those of you who remember the series of posts two years defining objectives for this blog, you’ll recall that I decided that average number of comments per post and number of unique […]

By: crossderry

crossderry — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:25:05 +0000

Hi Jonathan,
Have you considered using your Technorati rank or authority? It would be a reasonable proxy for “trusted.”

I’d probably go with “Authority” because it is more straightforward measure (http://support.technorati.com/faq/topic/71)

By: Am I A Blogger? « Manage By Walking Around

Am I A Blogger? « Manage By Walking Around — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:20:47 +0000

[…] for November was the lowest since April. Since frequency of posting and number of views are both KPIs that I track, my blogging credentials are clearly taking a hit. On the flight back from Boston, I remembered […]

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 05:43:44 +0000

Interesting that the revision to your mission statement removes the word “trusted” – a noble goal but in the end not as powerful (or measurable!) as top-of-mind.

You might be interested in web analytics blogger Avinash Kaushik’s blog goals:
http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/blog-goals/

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 03:38:05 +0000

Excellent point Robert. Quality is more important than quantity. Maybe the KPI should be something like the “% of blogs that have at least two discussion comments”.

By: Robert E

Robert E — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:12:11 +0000

For your objectives on the customer/reader perspective, I am hoping you will having qualitative as well as quantitative measurements. While numbers of responses is important, if they are off-topic, like “Great to see you last week”, or only quick affirmation, ” Yes, I agree”, they won’t promote a real discussion or forum on the topic.