We're number 51 on the 'Google Top 100 Wine Blog' list!
We typically review wine and don't generally blog about the state of wine blogging. Many others do a fine job of that. However, I saw this today on Enobytes and am compelled to share:
And our humble site was ranked at number 51!
Our traffic levels have certainly increased significantly, especially in the last six months. We've been at this for about a year and a half, but at the beginning no one's really paying attention -- no one really knows you exist. It's only after you develop a lot of content -- hopefully consistent and enjoyable for our readers -- and are around long enough to be placed on various lists that people do start to pay attention -- they start to know you exist.
Currently Google Analytics says we get about 1200 unique visitors a month; and that number has been rising fast lately. However, our content is available via RSS feeds. Those feeds get more hits than our regular pages of content. It's hard to determine what that means in terms of actual readership. Feeds might go into someone's feed reader, and others are automated computers that pull content and list on other wine sites (yep, our content shows up on a growing number of sites that aggregate wine blog content).
So, thank you dear readers. It's nice to know that I'm not only typing to myself anymore. And whatever you think of this particular rank list, it's flattering to be included, especially (I have to admit a bit shockingly) so high up.
... I created the "Google Top 100 Wine Blog" list by simply typing in a simple key term "wine blog" in the Google search engine. I then removed content that did not meet certain criteria, excluding blogs that haven’t been updated in over 3 months or websites that simply list other blogs. ...http://enobytes.org/wine_blog/2008/10/31/googles-top-100-wine-blogs/
And our humble site was ranked at number 51!
Our traffic levels have certainly increased significantly, especially in the last six months. We've been at this for about a year and a half, but at the beginning no one's really paying attention -- no one really knows you exist. It's only after you develop a lot of content -- hopefully consistent and enjoyable for our readers -- and are around long enough to be placed on various lists that people do start to pay attention -- they start to know you exist.
Currently Google Analytics says we get about 1200 unique visitors a month; and that number has been rising fast lately. However, our content is available via RSS feeds. Those feeds get more hits than our regular pages of content. It's hard to determine what that means in terms of actual readership. Feeds might go into someone's feed reader, and others are automated computers that pull content and list on other wine sites (yep, our content shows up on a growing number of sites that aggregate wine blog content).
So, thank you dear readers. It's nice to know that I'm not only typing to myself anymore. And whatever you think of this particular rank list, it's flattering to be included, especially (I have to admit a bit shockingly) so high up.
Posted by Jason on November 1, 2008 2:15:37 PM PDT
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