Welcome Hit Watcher #1723

Welcome Hit Watcher, how is your day going, is it a 52, a 238 or a 2356?

I this day of fast paced results we tend to measure our success in terms of numbers and preferably the best number available. I am a hit watcher and I check to see how many hits I have received quite a number of times a day. I am sorry, but I cannot help myself. I have even advertised on Blog Catalog, Condron and Alpha Inventions. I have dugg my own posts, stumbled them, reddit’d and used del.icio.us. I am weak I know. I have twittered new posts, updated my Facebook status to advertise it, hell I have even posted links, written on walls and emailed them. Arrrrrrg.

And the point? To get the graph on my stats page looking healthy and steep. Wow what a noble goal!

Well, truthfully I write because I want to be read. Simple, and I measure that by means of the number of Hits my blog gets in a day. But what do the hits mean? Using blog channel surfing sites may get your hits up but that does not mean that someone actually read it.

I reckon that the best indication of success is the honest comment – the one that shows not only that the post was read but that it was understood.

But even comments themselves are not the best measurement, even better would be engaging with other people through the comments to the point when something is learnt or imparted. And umm, how do you measure this?

Having said that, I am still a Hit Watcher and I ask you yo please forgive me.

Hit Watcher #1723 signing out