A Milestone: Post 300
December 20, 2007 by Lillie
Robert Hruzek shared that he doesn’t set blogging goals. I agreed with what he said and wrote this comment:
I’m a writer who loves words, not a statistician who loves numbers.
Now, I’m going to be inconsistent and talk statistics. Today is a milestone day, so I looked up my stats to see if the numbers match the amount of fun I’m having.
Joanna Young also just celebrated a milestone – the 1000th comment on her blog.
My milestone today is my 300th post. My first post was on June 11, 2006, a little over 18 months ago.
The 300 posts have generated 2,023 comments. At first I didn’t really understand that a blog was supposed to be a conversation, and I only received 11 comments in the first six months. Guess I learned a little something since I received more than 2000 comments in the next 12 months!
Of course, Akismet has caught more than 40,000 spam in the same time period – twenty times as many spam comments as legitimate ones! If only those were real comments …
I have a Technorati authority of 356 and ranking in the 13,000. However, that seems at odds with the traffic that Google Analytics reports: fewer than 100 visitors on most days. I’ve never got the plugin that runs all feed subscribers through Feedburner to work, so I don’t know if I have more than the dozen or so subscribers that Feedburner reports.
See, I’m confused by these statistics. I really do prefer words to numbers!
I’m not confused about this: the amount of fun I’ve had, the wonderful friends I’ve made, and the great conversations we’ve shared are immeasurable.
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Cheers to you, Lillie, and congratulations on the milestone! Hey, you’ve been blogging only a few days longer than me (June 21, 2006)!
Here’s to many more years to come!
Lillie, I love blogging red letter days – they’re cause for celebrations!
But I’m with you on this – the unmeasurable value of “the amount of fun I’ve had, the wonderful friends I’ve made, and the great conversations we’ve shared”
I look forward to your next 300 posts, lots more conversations, and lots more fun
Joanna
Congratulations, Lillie! 300 posts and over 2,000 comments… Way to go!
Smiles,
Michele
Congratulations. 300 posts is quite a milestone in the blogosphere. I have one blog approaching 300 posts but for some reason it has over 5000 comments on it. I was just poking around my mySQL comments table the other day (to remove comments WordPress marked as spam) and after running the query I was quite amazed that over 5000 legit comments were made.
Keep going and it won’t be long until you announce your 500th and 1000the post !!!
Congrats on the milestone and Happy Holidays!
good job with postings that encourage comments… you probably could slice that spam with a captcha box. Happy holidays.
I am also a free-lance editor and writer. It’s been fun to read about many things we have in common. Congratulations on a good blog.
Congratulations Lillie. 5,000 comments! That’s great. I have no idea of the count on comments on my blog, but I’m sure it’s not nearly that many. I’ve given up on keeping stats, though. It just takes too much time to figure everything out.
You have a great blog!
Congratulations on your milestone, Lillie (a little late)! In 2008, we’ll be looking for many more where those 300 came from!
Cheers!
Jeanne
wow, what a milestone. I can’t imagine making it to 3000! I am sure it will come, but that number just seems so huge to me right now.
Thanks, Robert. June 2006 must have a good month for great bloggers to start their journeys to blogging greatness.
Thanks, Joanna. The last year – after I started encouraging comments – has been a lot more fun than the first six months when I was talking to myself.
Thanks for the encouragement, Michele!
Congratulations on getting so many comments.
Thank you, Karen. Merry Christmas and happy New Year to you and your family.
Thanks, JC.
Akismet is doing a good job of catching the spam. I really don’t like captcha boxes because I have very poor vision, and most of the time I struggle with trying to decipher the characters. So in my personal experience, captcha boxes create a real hindrance to comments. I realize not everyone has the same challenge, but ….
Thanks, Travelinoma. I just subscribed to your blog and look forward to reading your posts.
I don’t spend time on stats, either. However, WordPress makes it easy – the dashboard shows the number of posts and comments, so I know what those counts are just by opening WordPress to write a post.
Thank you, Jeanne!
3000 seems so huge to me, too! You typed an extra 0 … I reached the milestone of three hundred posts. Don’t know if I’ll ever make it to three thousand!