Correlating Posts and Traffic
Monday, May 14th, 2007
I launched this blog just over a year ago with the 2006 May 1st CSS Reboot. It’s been an amazing year—the simple act of maintaining a blog and portfolio online has aided me in finding work, making friends online and off, and has stuck me in the middle of some very interesting conversations.
I owe a lot to the CSS reboot. Without that traffic surge in May ‘06 I doubt I could have ever received as much online attention as I did. Yet I failed to maintain that audience. I depended far too much on an audience coming from design gallery sites, the css reboot, and Digg. My audience was, and remains, very fleeting—people come for the design and leave for the lack of content. But hey, I’m a designer—not a writer. I’m working on improving that—through interviews with other designers, and focusing my writing on design topics rather than ethical inquiry.
One common-sense realization I’ve had: If you don’t post regularly, you will lose your audience. Keep reading for an analysis of my first year traffic correlated with post counts.