Growth

Well, today is a momentous day indeed. My personal blog has been up since May where this photo blog has been up for just over 1 month. In the blogging world, there seems to be some degree of growth over time so it was a surprise when I saw that my photo blog has just past my personal blog in number of visits in the past 30 days.

As a businessman, I have to ask "Why?" so that I can continue to grow my business and brand. One reason is that there is a limited degree of interest in my personal blog. I talk about my running and triathlon adventures and ongoing things in my life, family, technology, work and the like. My typical readers there are runners, triathletes and personal friends and family.

I also talked about photography and posted some pictures there as well. Those were some of the most commented on and viewed pages, so it would account for some dropoff of my viewers on my personal blog, but there has not been much of a dropoff. Even though the photo entries on my blog were popular, that would not account for all of the quick growth of my photo blog and site, so what explains the growth?

Since starting my photo site, I have started trying to photo blog ever 2-3 days which helps create a dynamic page and attracts visitors. I have also started to Twitter and have seen some traffic from that as well. Finally, I have devoted some time to reading other blogs and commenting on them. I have tried to diversify my readership by going to a variety of blogs, including fitness, religion, political as well as other photo blogs. The photo blogs have the added benefit of getting some additional inspiration.

Well, that is it for this little detour into the twilight zone of statistical analysis. Stay tuned for more photo posts in the future. Several neat ones already lined up for next week.