My shameless promotion of my blog contest in a comment on The Yarn Harlot's site gave pretty good results. I got a nice blip in page views. Quite a few readers even left comments for the drawing. Hello to all who came over from there. Good by to my lovely tall blip from Stephanie's post a month ago. It'll never look that impressive again now that it just shows up on two month's worth of stats.
If you haven't gotten a thank you e-mail from me, I don't have an e-mail address for you. Melissa, Cindy H, and ellen in indy, I don't have any contact information. Please drop me a line using the link in the sidebar to the right so I have an e-mail address for the drawing. For Meghann/Megynn, Mary, and Lana I just have blog links, but no e-mail addresses I could find on your blogs. I can just leave a comment for you, but if you'd rather have an e-mail notification, also drop me a line. And rest assured that the issue with my not receiving comment notifications has nothing to do with anything you did as acommentors. There's a glitch somewhere in the delivery process.
The contest has also brought out some readers I didn't know I had. It's nice to know that my increasing page views don't all come from search engines finding my blog.
I think maybe blogs that have been around for a while have a larger proportion of their readers registered on Bloglines, where they give you a number of subscriptions per feed. My newer blog has an increasing reader base without much of an increase in Bloglines subscribers. A couple of years ago they had less competition. Plus, the knitblog crowd now days seems pretty savvy about things like feeds.
Personally, I'm very happy to have someone else do all the work. Then again, I still don't have everything I planned in my sidebar done for my six-month blogiversary. I have averaged 5.65 posts per week. I'm very proud of that little figure.
I have done a bit of knitting in the last few days. My latest shoulder shawl got frogged and reknit to just past where I was. The first bead pattern I tried didn't make me happy.
Plus I'm swatched, packed, and ready for a cardigan project class taught by Karen starting tomorrow.
Besides that class I have an errand to run in the morning, knitting circle where I may actually get something done on the bands of my current cardigan WIP, and a book signing by Laurie/Crazy Aunt Purl to attend. Not much time for finding a number generator and posting to the blog in there. Expect results of the drawing on Thursday morning. That should give some of those I have no contact information for time to contact me.
I really like the look of the throw...I just recommended your post to a friend who wants to do a blanket. (And cats, of course are the perfect decorator accent to any room :)
Looking forward to hearing about cardigans, too- I'm just at the 'figuring out how much yarn to buy stage' for one for my dad for Christmas.
Posted by: RobinH | October 17, 2007 at 01:29 PM
I just bought that book by Laurie/Crazy Aunt Purl. I sneaked a few minutes to start it and couldn't put it down. It was hilarious! I love to knit and have five cats, a very tolerant husband and two daughters who love knitted goodies like mittens and afghans!
Your post today was interesting about the blogs, although I wouldn't have a clue how to start one. If I get enough time to start one, how hard is it? (I learned how to knit before the Internet existed and computers were so large they filled an entire room!)
Posted by: Nancy | October 17, 2007 at 02:28 PM
What did you think of Crazy Aunt Pearl's book? Funny?
Posted by: ashpags | October 17, 2007 at 11:33 PM