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
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February 10th, 2009 at 9:42 am
Nice template. Where can i download it?