Comments on: Blog Challenge: How Do You Judge a Blog Post as a Success?

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Momville.com » The Ultimate Mom Blogger Resource & Link List — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:05:40 +0000

[...] How Do You Judge A Blog Post As A Success? - By Lorelle See how lots of other bloggers guage their posts [...]

By: Manny Patel

Manny Patel — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:44:44 +0000

I dont believe the number of comments is a indicator of the success of the blog.

By: ceciiil

ceciiil — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:07:58 +0000

I guess I would rate a post as a massive success when it reaches the dizzy heights of 1 comment (smile).

I just have started personal blogging. I have been doing family blogging since 2004 to entertain the family and friends in remote locations (US, West Indeis, South Pacific) as we are in Europe, but that definitely is not the same.

I have also been a very active member of a discussion forum since 2000. Eventhough this has allowed to meet very interesting people and to learn many thing about electronic (and real) communication and social behavior, this now seems like a bit of a wasted time : all these lost ideas. Because this is what I love the most with blogging : tidy up my ideas, having a blog as a bit of an ideas shelf.

These may be about pop culture (music, books, movies), internet implications in our profesionnal and/or regular life, or the things that upset me with the society I live in (France).

Since I dont have many readers for now, a successful post for me is one that does make sense, describing interesting ideas, regardless if they come straight from me or from other bloggers that I admire.

By: What Makes a Successful Blog

What Makes a Successful Blog — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 09:41:04 +0000

[...] as measures of "success"! Lorelle actually had a recent post on her blog about what makes a blog post a success. There were some very interesting comments as part of the interchange that are worth checking out. [...]

By: Damien

Damien — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:34:15 +0000

Great question. For months I’ve stopped by your site and just read the thing that got e here. I’m looking around now and it is just amazing what you’ve done here.

Post success: I think some things are measurable and some aren’t. Gotta break that down first:

Measurable factors: “gain in traffic through a increase in hits and subscribers, number of comments, increase in search engine driven traffic”

Un-measurable factors: Folks who stopped by, thought about the post and went their way either affected, inspired and helped -or- unaffected, wanting or indifferent.

I think my measure of a successful blog post is one that scores “yes” on one or both of these two fronts:

1) Post comments reflect impact on readers.

and

2) I feel proud to put the post out there again and again through my “Best of” page or through links and link recommendation.

NOTICE neither of those two have a hoot in hell to do with seo or # of hits! I’ve always kind of nurtured this philosophy, but Lorelle’s interview answers recently drove this home and gave me “permission” to really live it!

By: Gailann

Gailann — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:25:46 +0000

Since I don’t have any readers yet, I can’t equate success with number of comments or RSS feeds, or anything cool like that. But I do consider it a success when I’m very, very proud of the post. The post I’m most proud of is one I titled is this one. (Unfortunately, the theme I based my theme on doesn’t show list bullets and I haven’t been successful in getting them reinstated.)

I usually shy away from political posts, but I just felt the need to highlight how those politicians and companies who think they’re “supporting the troops” are doing no such thing.

By: Will

Will — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:50:02 +0000

@mpb: Thanks for pointing that out. I thought my name was linked to my site, but it isn’t for some reason. I’ll have to fix that. Anyway, it is http://willtaft.com

Thanks for looking!

By: ¿Cómo juzgas el éxito de un artículo? | adseok

¿Cómo juzgas el éxito de un artículo? | adseok — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:18:08 +0000

[...] Lorelle pregunta a sus lectores cómo juzgan el éxito de un post. A la hora de valorar si un artículo que has escrito ha tenido éxito, se pueden considerar varios puntos. ¿EL número de comentarios que recibe? ¿El tráfico que atrae? ¿Los enlaces que consigue? ¿Que llegue a portada de menéame? ¿Quién te ha enlazado el artículo? [...]

By: Jesse Harris

Jesse Harris — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:12:31 +0000

I use a combination of the things mentioned above. What I look for are repeat visitors after the post, comments on the post, page views for the post, average visit times and pages per visit. It also helps to see what’s linking to it and how many responses you get. (Writing about a spammer threatening to sue me sent traffic through the roof and scored a few new readers. Oh, and it made the spammer back off.) Of course, my motivation is narcissism so getting feedback and more readers is my yardstick. YMMV depending on your goals.

By: Donnie

Donnie — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:55:33 +0000

I blog in order to relax or post something interesting that I can go back and remember or relive. It’s gratifying to see traffic spikes, but it’s not the goal.

A great post is one that stands out in my mind weeks later as entertaining or interesting. Or other people say is entertaining or interesting. (Strangely, those sets don’t have much intersection.)