It’s been a few days since I switched from my Badger Gravling alias to blogging under my real name. And bearing in mind it coincided with a weekend away from my computer, and self promotion via the likes of Entrecard, I wasn’t expecting to see any kind of change. And looking at Google Analytics and visits via Entrecard etc saw a slight drop due to my blogging drought (albeit just a few days). On the plus side, less visits from Entrecard did see my Bounce Rate decrease.
But logging into Feedburner to check my RSS stats revealed a bit of a surprise. My subscriber numbers have hovered around the same figures for ages, never varying more than 1 or 2. And yet, by changing to my real name, it’s jumped by a significant amount!
It can’t be due to new visitors rushing to a popular post, because I haven’t contributed since, or had a huge audience surge.
In fact, the only other reason I can possibly find is that I have Twittered a fair bit – to the point where I’m almost worrying I can’t sustain Tweeting so much alongside blogging regularly. But that would only work if every single person referred via Twitter had signed up for RSS. It seems a little unlikely, but if not, it’s a stunning recommendation for the power of connecting to like-minded people on Twitter.
So if you are a new subscriber, let me know whether you came through Twitter, or whether something as simple as being open about who I am made you consider signing up? Or was it something else?
Recent Comments