This blog is growing up

This blog finally has legs. Not a newborn anymore. More like a toddler. A fast crawler.

I bought this domain name way back in March, but didn’t start blogging for a few months afterwards. Consistent blogging didn’t happen for many more months. Starting in September 2006, I really got into a regular habit of writing things down, and figured I might as well put it out there for other people to make fun of.

I track pageviews and broad site metrics using Google Analytics and my subscriber count through Feedburner. To be honest, the site metrics are interesting, but it is the subscriber number that really matters to me.

There are now 54 total subscribers to Set Higher Standards. Of the 54, 12 have signed up for the Feedburner e-mail delivery service to get the posts via e-mail as opposed to through an RSS reader. This really surprised me. I recommend anyone who wants to increase their readership to add this feature to their site. If you use Feedburner, it is totally free.

I pretty much had 3-5 subscribers throughout the entire summer (myself on two computers and Chuck!). There were a couple of spikes when this site got picked up by StumbleUpon, but aside from that, things have just been trending up slowly but surely.

In terms of site stats, I get an average of 120 visits per day (yes Todd, I exclude my IP address!) and 240 pageviews.

All in all, I am pretty happy with how things are going. I am curious as to how long the growth will keep up.