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Mar 10, 16, 10:09 pm
#661
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Originally Posted by Astrophsx
Says the person who had to change their logo (multiple times?) and then the name of their blog. ^ Guess no one here really understand the business?
BTW This month tracking to smash all time views, sessions an so much more. ^^^
Then again, I understand the business of blogging. @:-)
Mar 10, 16, 10:12 pm
#662
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Originally Posted by Renes Points
Correct. Wise move. Ended 2015 with best Q4 ever.
BTW This month tracking to smash all time views, sessions an so much more. ^^^
Then again, I understand the business of blogging. @:-)
BTW This month tracking to smash all time views, sessions an so much more. ^^^
Then again, I understand the business of blogging. @:-)
Mar 11, 16, 1:11 am
#663
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Originally Posted by Renes Points
Correct. Wise move. Ended 2015 with best Q4 ever.
BTW This month tracking to smash all time views, sessions an so much more. ^^^
Then again, I understand the business of blogging. @:-)
BTW This month tracking to smash all time views, sessions an so much more. ^^^
Then again, I understand the business of blogging. @:-)
I find it ironic that you chastise for not knowing the business of blogging when bloggers are anything BUT transparent about any quantitative metrics. For all we know, your "smash" could mean you doubled from 2->4 views...
So please, spare me the lesson in business 101
Mar 11, 16, 1:12 am
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Originally Posted by Astrophsx
Says the person who had to change their logo (multiple times?) and then the name of their blog. ^ Guess no one here really understand the business?
Mar 11, 16, 1:24 am
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Originally Posted by RFDMinnesota
In all fairness, we all thought it was two Renes running that sideshow until that all important apostrophe finally got added in
The weblog is officially known as Rens Points.
Mar 11, 16, 2:13 am
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Originally Posted by RFDMinnesota
Can't say I'd be bragging about winning tallest midget, but then again $$$ mean different things to different people.
I find it ironic that you chastise for not knowing the business of blogging when bloggers are anything BUT transparent about any quantitative metrics. For all we know, your "smash" could mean you doubled from 2->4 views...
So please, spare me the lesson in business 101
I find it ironic that you chastise for not knowing the business of blogging when bloggers are anything BUT transparent about any quantitative metrics. For all we know, your "smash" could mean you doubled from 2->4 views...
So please, spare me the lesson in business 101
Mar 11, 16, 5:20 am
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Originally Posted by Renes Points
Correct. Wise move. Ended 2015 with best Q4 ever.
BTW This month tracking to smash all time views, sessions an so much more. ^^^
Then again, I understand the business of blogging. @:-)
BTW This month tracking to smash all time views, sessions an so much more. ^^^
Then again, I understand the business of blogging. @:-)
onemileatatime.boardingarea.com 40.51%
viewfromthewing.boardingarea.com 20.15%
frequentmiler.boardingarea.com 13.40%
boardingarea.com 11.37%
milestomemories.boardingarea.com 7.77%
You're not even in the top 5. Lets be generous and say 5% share, that's around 7600 a day. Not bad, but nothing even close to brag about.
Whats shocking is 40% share of 4.6M visitors means Mr Schlappig has over 1.8M views a month, 60,000 a day. Even a 0.1% conversion ratio would be 60 apps a day around $3000-6000 a day in revenue.
The Points Guy is still king though, his traffic stats are almost equal to boardingarea combined.
Mar 11, 16, 7:43 am
#669
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Originally Posted by gpapadop
"It's all about conversions" - Old Titan
about the business of blogging
about the business of blogging
Mar 11, 16, 8:11 am
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Originally Posted by YoungSoloTraveler
onemileatatime.boardingarea.com 40.51%
viewfromthewing.boardingarea.com 20.15%
frequentmiler.boardingarea.com 13.40%
boardingarea.com 11.37%
milestomemories.boardingarea.com 7.77%
You're not even in the top 5. Lets be generous and say 5% share, that's around 7600 a day. Not bad, but nothing even close to brag about.
Whats shocking is 40% share of 4.6M visitors means Mr Schlappig has over 1.8M views a month, 60,000 a day. Even a 0.1% conversion ratio would be 60 apps a day around $3000-6000 a day in revenue.
The Points Guy is still king though, his traffic stats are almost equal to boardingarea combined.
viewfromthewing.boardingarea.com 20.15%
frequentmiler.boardingarea.com 13.40%
boardingarea.com 11.37%
milestomemories.boardingarea.com 7.77%
You're not even in the top 5. Lets be generous and say 5% share, that's around 7600 a day. Not bad, but nothing even close to brag about.
Whats shocking is 40% share of 4.6M visitors means Mr Schlappig has over 1.8M views a month, 60,000 a day. Even a 0.1% conversion ratio would be 60 apps a day around $3000-6000 a day in revenue.
The Points Guy is still king though, his traffic stats are almost equal to boardingarea combined.
At least some of the truly awful ones are not there anymore. I would be curious as to how many views any blog needs to get to remain on BA. It seemed that a while ago anybody could be a blogger on that site.
Interesting that Ben has double Gary's traffic. I always viewed the Gary/Ben relationship as Gary being the mentor for Ben, especially when Ben first started out. Ahh, the good old days. That's when BA was a good resource.
Not discounting a couple of really good blogs over there like Wandering Aramean.
Mar 11, 16, 8:15 am
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Originally Posted by cruisr
Not doubting you just curious how you got the stats?
Mar 11, 16, 11:56 am
#672
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Originally Posted by Renes Points
Correct. Wise move. Ended 2015 with best Q4 ever.
BTW This month tracking to smash all time views, sessions an so much more. ^^^
Then again, I understand the business of blogging. @:-)
BTW This month tracking to smash all time views, sessions an so much more. ^^^
Then again, I understand the business of blogging. @:-)
blah blah blah. Not buying any of that.
Mar 12, 16, 4:52 am
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Originally Posted by Canarsie
There is no apostrophe in the name.
The weblog is officially known as Rens Points.
The weblog is officially known as Rens Points.
Ah hahaha! Thank you for making my night!
Also goes to show how much I visit
Mar 21, 16, 10:47 am
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One thing I would really, really like the ability to do on BA is to "hide" or "ignore" certain blogs so that they don't show up on the feed. I still find BA useful, and read it multiple times a day, but it's becoming cluttered by both blogs of low quality and ones that are simply irrelevant to me (like the Canadian ones or the one that is all in German).
