A Blogging Experiment

A few months ago, I wrote a blog post in which I said that I was going to stop blogging about blogging, and blogging about how many hits my blogs were getting (you can read that post, here, if you don’t believe me).   I’m pleased to say that I have so far avoided any posts of that, unbelievably tedious, nature, so I hope you’ll forgive me if I semi-break my self-imposed embargo.

My post rate has rapidly declined in recent times – 44 posts, so far this year over 2 blogs, which is actually a bit more than I would have guessed – so I would expect my number of hits to have fallen off.  However, having had a sneaky peek at my site stats the other day, I was shocked to see just how few hits I’ve been getting (with PSGOM suffering much more than The World of Sherby57).  Last month saw me get around 8 times less hits than at my peak.  I don’t post 8 times less frequently, so what’s the reason for the drop off?  Does the regularity of daily updates make that much of a difference?  Am I writing about less interesting subjects? Has me writting goned rubbish? I don’t know, but I’d sure like to find out.

Aha! You see, there was a point to all this and it wasn’t just an excuse for me to talk about stats again.  I’ve got two weeks off work now and I thought it would be good to perform an experiment.  I’m going to attempt a concentrated burst of bloggery over the next 16 days, just to see if it makes any difference to the number of hits I get.  My aim is to average at least 1 post per day per blog – a total of 32 posts.  I don’t know if I’ll actually be able to manage it, but now that it’s written down and published on the internet, I might be shamed into completion.

I’ve already written on TWoS57 today, so I’ve completed 6.25% of my quest.  Wish me luck.