An American Life in Istanbul

Current Mood: Esctatic

I would like to take this opportunity to go over two things.

1. Bragging: I started using Google Analytics to track my blogs visitors and my company website visitors (I made the website, so it’s my duty to maintain it). I figure it is never a bad idea to take a few simple steps towards tracking web traffic. It’s been just over one month since I started keeping track and so far my blog has more visitors. Way to go readers! In the past month:

Hah! Pretty good isn’t it? If you are curious you can check out the company website. Quickly interpreting the numbers leads me to the following conclusions:

• Fewer new visits means I have more returning readers. While the company website is able to get lots of new people to the website, my readers keep coming back. This is probably because my content is changing (and it’s more interesting)
• Fewer page views per visit is a bit of a silly statistic especially if you consider that the majority of my visits are from returning readers. They are only interested in the new entries all of which show up on the main page.

Furthermore, another one of our distributors has been reading my blog! I guess I have to be extra careful now.

2. Comments: Please post your thoughts on my blog. It sometimes creates interesting debate and I like to read what people think. However keep in mind, except for swearing I am not going to try not to screen any comments. A few weeks ago someone posted a comment that they assumed I wouldn’t post. They were a surprised and embarrassed to have those words go up. So be mindful of what you post. This is after all a public forum.

3. New Theme: Anyone else feel it’s time for a new theme? I am getting tired of the MacBlog theme since it doesn’t really fit my blog. If anyone has any suggestions please post them in your comments.

Thanks,

Conrad

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