BlogStorm is just over 3 months old this week and has just hit the 1000 RSS readers mark.
Given the traffic this blog has received (over 320,000 unique visitors and half a million page views) some of you probably expected a much larger readership. I started this blog without any real expectations so I’m very happy with the level of exposure we have gained.
For those of you expecting larger figures I will offer two comments – blogging is very hard work and starting a new blog from scratch is even harder. Until you have a good reputation and a long standing blog, visitors are very unlikely to waste their time signing up. The sheer volume of sites I visit every day via the various social networks pretty much means I can’t subscribe to any of them. My Netvibes account of 200 feeds grows by maybe 1 feed per week at the moment and none of the feeds I add are found via social networks (except for some I find on Sphinn).
The main way to build RSS readers is to be recommended by another blogger. BlogStorm has been linked from a good number of popular blogs, but not all of them, so there is plenty of room for improvement.
Finally I would like to say thanks to all the people who have subscribed over the last few months. Later this week I will be posting the answers to the “internet marketing questions” post so if you have any questions ask here.
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