Comments on: Unintentional experiment http://scientificink.com/blog/2007/09/01/unintentional-experiment/ not particularly objective musings on odds and ends - Dunrie Greiling, Ann Arbor, MI 48105 Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:15:25 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dunrie http://scientificink.com/blog/2007/09/01/unintentional-experiment/comment-page-1/#comment-935 Dunrie Sun, 02 Sep 2007 14:43:16 +0000 http://scientificink.com/blog/?p=161#comment-935 Yes, I just added the FeedSmith FeedBurner plugin. That's where the "8 subscribers" data comes from. I bet at least a few of that 8 are me having syndicated my own blog (via facebook and via jaiku), so the number of actual humans other than me subscribed is even lower than 8! I know that I have at least a couple more readers than subscribers. My familly thus far have been the main folks commenting on my posts, and I don't envision any of them having subscribed via RSS. My family, tho, aren't local enough to have chimed in on the dentist survey, and I don't think they're "always tuned in" the way a subscriber is. I'll bet you're right, that any response is a conversion and that the medium of the response (facebook, twitter, pownce, blog) may not be the same as the medium that got the responder's attention. Funny! Yes, I just added the FeedSmith FeedBurner plugin. That’s where the “8 subscribers” data comes from.

I bet at least a few of that 8 are me having syndicated my own blog (via facebook and via jaiku), so the number of actual humans other than me subscribed is even lower than 8!

I know that I have at least a couple more readers than subscribers. My familly thus far have been the main folks commenting on my posts, and I don’t envision any of them having subscribed via RSS. My family, tho, aren’t local enough to have chimed in on the dentist survey, and I don’t think they’re “always tuned in” the way a subscriber is.

I’ll bet you’re right, that any response is a conversion and that the medium of the response (facebook, twitter, pownce, blog) may not be the same as the medium that got the responder’s attention. Funny!

]]> By: Edward Vielmetti http://scientificink.com/blog/2007/09/01/unintentional-experiment/comment-page-1/#comment-932 Edward Vielmetti Sat, 01 Sep 2007 22:20:15 +0000 http://scientificink.com/blog/?p=161#comment-932 Blogs pick up a bunch of search engine traffic, so it's possible that you are getting dentist recommendations from people who were searching for something and happened to stumble on what you wrote. It's often the case that more people are regular readers of a blog than are measured by "subscriber" numbers - are you running your feed through Feedburner? - and thus you're undercounting the reach of the blog posting. Some folks are reading the blog in Facebook but then commenting directly on the blog maybe? That's what I did for this post. Brian Kerr has done some work on conversion funnel analysis for community media - where you are counting things like a blog comment or a wiki edit as success. Blogs pick up a bunch of search engine traffic, so it’s possible that you are getting dentist recommendations from people who were searching for something and happened to stumble on what you wrote.

It’s often the case that more people are regular readers of a blog than are measured by “subscriber” numbers – are you running your feed through Feedburner? – and thus you’re undercounting the reach of the blog posting.

Some folks are reading the blog in Facebook but then commenting directly on the blog maybe? That’s what I did for this post.

Brian Kerr has done some work on conversion funnel analysis for community media – where you are counting things like a blog comment or a wiki edit as success.

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