Making A Mark has finally achieved 20 million pageviews - as counted by Blogger!
It also recently made it to six million unique visits as well.
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| 125k+ Visitors from all over the world in the last 6 months |
I feel so silly though as I knew it was coming up - but took my eye off the ball so I don't know when it happened but it was in the last few days!
Despite me writing a lot less now (only 106 posts so far this year!) - for reasons I explained in my last post - it's still generating a lot of visits from all over the world - and most stick around and take a longer look at what else can be found on the blog.
Below are tips for how to get people to visit and to keep coming back....
Making A Mark - the story so far
Blogger hasn't quite adjusted to blogs being as old as mine. This is the chart on the stats page
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| The story since 2011 (when it was already 5 years old) - when it achieved 1 million visits |
Previous posts on this topic include:
- Making a Mark is 17 years old. What next? (January 5th 2023) - in which I look back at how the blog has progressed and where people come from
- After 17 million pageviews!!! (May 15th 2021) - when I noted that Making A Mark was averaging over 1 million pageviews each year
- Making A Mark achieves 5 MILLION visits! (January 15th 2020)
- 10 Years of Making A Mark (January 1 2016)
- Making A Mark achieves 2.5 million visits (March 13th 2014)
- Making A Mark notches up 5 million Pageviews! (January 17th, 2014)
- Making A Mark notches up 1 million visits. (April 2011) - It took five years to get the millionth visitor in April 2011
- Exploring Web Analytics #1 - about why I use statistics to develop my blog.
1. Make your website very focused
2. Make every webpage very specific - make it a niche within a niche
3. Make every title very specific in terms of its topic
4. Provide a short summary of what each page contains at the top.
5. Make navigation very easy
6. Have a plan for how your website will develop
7. Use statistics to guide development
8. People look at images and read words - but really they scan both!
9. Write about what you know
10. Refresh and update a website regularly (use a blog)
11. Do link to relevant other websites - and encourage them to link back
Blog posts to date
The Archive tells me that the pattern looks like this - with over 4,400 published blog posts to date.I started out writing virtually every day - for three years.
Then started having one day a week off. I producing around about 300 posts each year or very nearly 6 blog posts a week. This continued (apart from when I was on holiday) until I started to write my book in 2014.
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