Comments on: Tips For Measuring Post Success: Part 1 Bookmarking http://theedublogger.com/2009/10/15/tips-for-measuring-post-success-part-1/ Tips, tricks, and help for educators and bloggers using technology Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:51:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Sue Waters http://theedublogger.com/2009/10/15/tips-for-measuring-post-success-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-5708 Sue Waters Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:07:24 +0000 http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/?p=1039#comment-5708 @Lisa Hill, I've just gone through and quickly checked your data. At the moment your PostRank scores are made up of mostly tweets and comments. You will only see values for Bookmarking if people are bookmarking the posts. Most bloggers wouldn't get high bookmarking -- it really depends on the type of post you write. For example, my posts that are bookmarked are generally longer posts that people are more likely to revisit to refer back to information on. PostRank subscribers is different from your normal subscribers. It is people who follow you as subscribers on PostRank. The best way to monitor your normal subscribers is to use a Feedburner RSS feed and if you can redirect all your blog's feed through Feedburner. This gives you the most accurate indication of how many people are reading your post by RSS or by email. If you click on the Feedburner tag on my sidebar you will find all my posts on how to set up Feedburner. @Lisa Hill, I’ve just gone through and quickly checked your data. At the moment your PostRank scores are made up of mostly tweets and comments.

You will only see values for Bookmarking if people are bookmarking the posts. Most bloggers wouldn’t get high bookmarking — it really depends on the type of post you write. For example, my posts that are bookmarked are generally longer posts that people are more likely to revisit to refer back to information on.

PostRank subscribers is different from your normal subscribers. It is people who follow you as subscribers on PostRank.

The best way to monitor your normal subscribers is to use a Feedburner RSS feed and if you can redirect all your blog’s feed through Feedburner. This gives you the most accurate indication of how many people are reading your post by RSS or by email. If you click on the Feedburner tag on my sidebar you will find all my posts on how to set up Feedburner.

]]> By: Lisa Hill http://theedublogger.com/2009/10/15/tips-for-measuring-post-success-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-5704 Lisa Hill Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:12:28 +0000 http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/?p=1039#comment-5704 Hi Sue, me again, I've joined Post Rank but (1) don't seem to be able to see the post rank score for bookmarks when I click your linke to your Post Rank page and (2) I can't figure out how to monitor the bookmarking at all. When you have time, could you please do a step-by-step walk through of what to do, like you have for IceRank? And also, PostRank tells me that I have only one subscriber to my bookblog (http://anzlitlovers.wordpress.com) but I know from the stream of comments I get that there are many people who are reading my posts the day I write them. Does Post Rank know if people are subscribing via Google Reader rather than RSS? I ask this because I have RSS to my favourite blogs that I read whenever there's a new post, and then there are the ones I monitor using Google Reader but most of the time I don't actually visit the sites of either type. This is because I reply/comment using email or I just read the post using the preview pane in my email program. Lisa Hi Sue, me again, I’ve joined Post Rank but (1) don’t seem to be able to see the post rank score for bookmarks when I click your linke to your Post Rank page and (2) I can’t figure out how to monitor the bookmarking at all. When you have time, could you please do a step-by-step walk through of what to do, like you have for IceRank?
And also, PostRank tells me that I have only one subscriber to my bookblog (http://anzlitlovers.wordpress.com) but I know from the stream of comments I get that there are many people who are reading my posts the day I write them. Does Post Rank know if people are subscribing via Google Reader rather than RSS? I ask this because I have RSS to my favourite blogs that I read whenever there’s a new post, and then there are the ones I monitor using Google Reader but most of the time I don’t actually visit the sites of either type. This is because I reply/comment using email or I just read the post using the preview pane in my email program.
Lisa

]]> By: on sale http://theedublogger.com/2009/10/15/tips-for-measuring-post-success-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-5673 on sale Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:27:22 +0000 http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/?p=1039#comment-5673 Thank you for this tips Thank you for this tips

]]> By: Sue Waters http://theedublogger.com/2009/10/15/tips-for-measuring-post-success-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-5670 Sue Waters Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:14:38 +0000 http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/?p=1039#comment-5670 I agree that you need to be very careful with interpretation of any metric however high bookmarking is an indication that the reader considered it to be information that they found to some extent useful. And some of those posts did surprise me in terms of how bookmarked they were. For example, the podcasting posts. When I did a poll of readers they indicated they weren't that interested in reading about podcasting and yet based on bookmarking those posts were popular. I agree that you need to be very careful with interpretation of any metric however high bookmarking is an indication that the reader considered it to be information that they found to some extent useful.

And some of those posts did surprise me in terms of how bookmarked they were. For example, the podcasting posts. When I did a poll of readers they indicated they weren’t that interested in reading about podcasting and yet based on bookmarking those posts were popular.

]]> By: rutsinsao http://theedublogger.com/2009/10/15/tips-for-measuring-post-success-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-5669 rutsinsao Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:14:25 +0000 http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/?p=1039#comment-5669 I would tend to take care over any assumption based on a single action by a visitor. I would tend to take care over any assumption based on a single action by a visitor.

]]> By: Ken Allan http://theedublogger.com/2009/10/15/tips-for-measuring-post-success-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-5642 Ken Allan Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:55:20 +0000 http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/?p=1039#comment-5642 Kia ora e Sue! You said that as a blogger, it’s important to know the answer to, "Is the content you’re providing fulfilling your readers needs?” I'm not so sure about the 'needs' part here. I think that this can add an unnecessary confusion to the interpretation of any statistics you may gather. For one thing, it's well known that the reason behind a choice made by a participant is extremely difficult to ascertain, if not impossible without careful surveying. And hereby lies one of the greatest problems that can face an enquiring blogger while attempting to interpret statistics (metrics). As a scientist :) I would tend to take care over any assumption based on a single action by a visitor. I have raised this matter before with <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/15408035995182843336" rel="nofollow">Tony Karrer</a>, that without further information, bloggers cannot assume that (say) a visitor bookmarking a site means any more or less than writing a comment against it. In fact, there is more likelihood of getting useful information from the comment than the single action of bookmarking a site. For instance, I often bookmark sites for students' needs. The contents do not necessarily meet needs that I have. In short, we cannot read more into (metrics) information than the information is capable of yielding. I quote Ashleigh Brilliant, "I waited and waited, and when no message came, I knew it must be from you." Catchya later Kia ora e Sue!

You said that as a blogger, it’s important to know the answer to, “Is the content you’re providing fulfilling your readers needs?”

I’m not so sure about the ‘needs’ part here. I think that this can add an unnecessary confusion to the interpretation of any statistics you may gather. For one thing, it’s well known that the reason behind a choice made by a participant is extremely difficult to ascertain, if not impossible without careful surveying. And hereby lies one of the greatest problems that can face an enquiring blogger while attempting to interpret statistics (metrics).

As a scientist :) I would tend to take care over any assumption based on a single action by a visitor. I have raised this matter before with Tony Karrer, that without further information, bloggers cannot assume that (say) a visitor bookmarking a site means any more or less than writing a comment against it. In fact, there is more likelihood of getting useful information from the comment than the single action of bookmarking a site. For instance, I often bookmark sites for students’ needs. The contents do not necessarily meet needs that I have.

In short, we cannot read more into (metrics) information than the information is capable of yielding. I quote Ashleigh Brilliant, “I waited and waited, and when no message came, I knew it must be from you.”

Catchya later

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