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Sunday traffic slower?
Posted by brianomaracroft • 11/02/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: blogging, experiences, sundays, traffic
Do you experience a decline in activity on your blog on Sundays? Through most of last week, I was averaging between 50-80 visitors a day. Yesterday, I had 8. So, after getting drunk, I started thinking...do others experience this?
While I mix myself another, can you share your thoughts on this?
(And, if you'd like to encourage several thousand of your friends to visit my blog every Sunday, so I don't destroy my liver, that would be fine, too.)
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Step away from the stats.....
Unlike masturbation this activity may actually cause blindness.-
Part of the problem, for me, is that one of the reasons my second book was passed on by a large publisher, even though they loved it, was that I didn't have an established "author platform", and one of the things mentioned was not having a huge blog following.
I agree with you, though...one can go insane from obsessing too much. -
Staring at stats aint going to get you visitors. I think it must be hard to have that pressure on you, knowing that you could have got a book published, but that is what held it back.
Actively engaging with other bloggers is always good, not just on here, because folks want their shit to be read too. -
so I should just masturbate more, then...to save my eyes?
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Might relieve some stress too
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Claire, you're counseling is going to take off like a rocket with advice like that! lol (Pun intended)
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ok, hairy palms, the answer to your question is yes. Saturday and Sunday will more likely be your slowest days. When I started I made the assumption that the weekend would actually be the highest count but it is not. After many discussions I found many bloggers get on their computers after work. They either spend time with their families on the weekend or they or writing.
Ok, you may resume your activity now.-
What I expected was that a different group of visitors might be on over the weekend. But I suspect you're right about their habits.
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The first year I had my book published, I had a mass amount of visitors and gained many readers for the first two years. After that, my blog took a decline and this past week, there was an influx of visitors that went beyond the norm---as if my writing was reviewed somewhere, which has happened in the past, but I couldn't get a referral address from the sitemeter which drove me crazy.
Sunday traffic is always slower, because most people are spending time with their families, etc. I find the most traffic is mid-to late week.
Yes, staring at stats will make you go crazy! -
It's usually lower on the weekends. Usually my Saturdays are slower than Sundays, though. -
I'd hate to see how you'd respond on a day with no blog traffic. Keep all sharp objects and medications locked away. ok?
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I give myself a break on weekends. I don't even post on weekends--especially anything I really want people to see.
During the week I write blogs and comment like crazy on other blogs. Taking the weekends off is a needed break!-
I feel guilty when I don't post.
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I do too. LOL. I know what you mean. That's why I try very hard to have a Monday thru Friday post. Maybe on weekends do something lighter? That way if your traffic is slower your usual readers aren't missing anything important.
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Sunday's are reserved for the family, church, sports and preparing a slow Monday.
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