Comments on: The Content Makers – One Month of Operation and Going OK.

By: Mary Garden

Mary Garden — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:02:51 +0000

Very interesting, Margaret. Pop in here from time to time. Any chance of an update for the month of January and February? Would be fascinating to see what happened around THAT Hoax incident etc.
As for the the traffic from the MSM, what about where you roam? Do you ever check out Oz’s Mark Day’s blog? Matthew Ricketson at the Age (but he’s leaving unfortunately; maybe he has already)?
BTW I read Content Makers last year, and quoted from it for several uni assignments.

By: Louise North

Louise North — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:58:52 +0000

Enjoy checking into your site, Meg and interested in your Twitter flutter. You are way ahead of the hundreds of Monash students I quizzed this week about Twitter use. Most don’t know about it, or prefer Facebook. Perhaps it is just the old journos and academics who think we should be up to date with new technology that is actually driving Twitter!
Cheers
Louise

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:46:11 +0000

I agree with Lyn. You’re doing a great job. I am reading and enjoying your book.

By: lyn mcgaurr

lyn mcgaurr — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:35:44 +0000

This is a fantastic resource. Please keep it up.

By: James Meese

James Meese — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:23:52 +0000

It’s been an awesome month. Congrats!

By: Robert Corr

Robert Corr — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 09:45:02 +0000

Your stats don’t appear to include subscribers to your RSS feed, and thus probably don’t include people like me. I imagine your readership would be more likely to use a feedreader. You (or the Crikey tech-heads) might want to investigate Feedburner or a similar service, which can provide stats on your feed readership — it’s very simple to integrate with WordPress.

By: Trevor Cook

Trevor Cook — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 09:06:08 +0000

Going great I would say well done!

By: Tim Burrowes - MuMbrella

Tim Burrowes - MuMbrella — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:03:52 +0000

Hi Margaret,

We started within days of each other, and the experience has been very similar for me with mumbrella.

One thing I’ve noticed (which is obvious once one says it), is that the posts that are most visited and most linked to are the oncs where you break or take on a story, offer new info or simply have a strong point fo view.

I tend to find where I simply link to another interesting piece, the links and traffic (quite rightly) go there. It may take longer, but I suspect one of the traffic lessons is that the more analysis and insight one offers on the topic, the better the traffic.

Cheers,

Tim

By: Neil Walker

Neil Walker — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 05:54:21 +0000

Not boring at all. Really enjoying the blog and check in most days to see what’s happening in the wonderful world of media. Just started reading ‘The Content Makers’ book due to this blog. I blog at http://www.mediamook.com and get approx 100 hits per day, on average. Some of the feedback received is interesting though. It’s amazing how many people Google themselves. Happy New Year.