Blogging survey

The under­signed are car­ry­ing out a blog­ging sur­vey, http://theundersigned.net/2006/10/blogging-survey/. I will be inter­ested in the res­ults, so I thought I bet­ter con­trib­ute. Hat tip Max Power

When did you start blogging?

2005, though from 1995 to 1999 I was part of a team that pro­duced a local music web­site, that now would be classed as a blog.

Aver­age, how often do you blog?

2–3 times a week, truth­fully about 1.5 times per week

How do you host your blog?

I host it myself

What blog­ging application/service do you use?

Word­Press

Do you use an applic­a­tion to blog dir­ectly from your desktop, rather than from your blogs administration?

No

Do you use a free theme for your blog?

No, I have made one myself. Does any­body else, other than me and Kay have such a fix­a­tion on orange.

What type of blog­ging do you do?

Topic-based, in the­ory CSS, HTML, Stand­ards and Acces­ib­il­ity but I do wander.

What is your primary blog­ging motivation?

Other (please describe), a place for me share information/ideas, to exper­i­ment and some shame­less self promotion ;-)

Do you care much about the amount of visitors?

Yes, I do have an ego

Does the total account of vis­it­ors on your blog count more to you, than the amount of vis­it­ors who com­ment on your blog posts?

No, feed­back good or bad is bet­ter than raw numbers

Do you use some sort of anti spam solu­tion for your blog com­ments? (Such as Akismet)

Yes, Akisi­met

If you run advert­ise­ments on your blog, do you sell the ads yourself?

No, no ads

If you earn money on advert­ising on your blog, how much do you approx­im­ately earn per month?

$0-$20, aka one beer this year

If you are run­ning a busi­ness blog — have it helped your busi­ness to start blogging?

No, this is not a busi­ness blog

Are you a mem­ber of a blog­ging net­work such as ran­dom shapes or 9rules?

Yes, West Coast Bloggers

If you are mem­ber of a blog­ging net­work — has it helped you notice­able in any way?

Yes I get the odd vis­itor through the net­work. It is very small and has not been pro­moted yet, other than one tshirt.

How many daily unique vis­it­ors do your blog have?

0–100, 60 to 70 most weekdays

Do you keep stat­ist­ics of feed subscribers?

No, I did not like the terms and con­di­tions of Feed­burner and have not found an alternative.

Do you put work into search engine optim­isa­tion for your blog?

Yes, improved semantics, write decent head­lines and tagging.

Have you ever bought advert­ise­ment on other web­sites for your blog?

No

tagged blog­ging sur­vey sur­vey

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