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This is weekly recap for week 6 (8 February till 14 February)
Current status:
Articles: 334 (+7)
Twitter: 2964 (+71) followers / 519 (0) following
Facebook: 820 (0) likes / 859 (0) followers / 239 (+3) post reach
Instagram: Post 270 (+1) / 619 (+3) followers / 298 (+1) following
Analytics: 4166 (-2449) users / 1554 (-4017) sessions (excluding home IP) / Page views 2485 (-2800)
Queries: 3360 (-89) / Impressions 12552 (-608) / Clicks 224 (-43) / Average position: 32 (+1)
Mailchimp: 509 (+1) contacts
Cool to see the clicks and organic growth, got quite a lot of mail subs that unsubbed within the week.
Really need to find a better way of doing the mailing list.
I started working on V2, mainly the color pallets, and having a exciting meeting about that this week.
This is weekly recap for week 5 (1 February till 7 February)
Current status:
Articles: 327 (+7)
Twitter: 2964 (+39) followers / 519 (0) following
Facebook: 820 (0) likes / 859 (0) followers / 236 (-6558) post reach
Instagram: Post 270 (+1) / 616 (-7) followers / 297 (-2) following
Analytics: 4166 (+2205) users / 5571 (+3273) sessions (excluding home IP) / Page views 5285 (+2040)
Queries: 3449 (+1414) / Impressions 12552 (+6830) / Clicks 224 (+162) / Average position: 33 (+10)
Mailchimp: 508 (+18) contacts
Wow, so cool. Matthias has been working on some on-page SEO for me, and really seeing it come to live now!
Also crossed 500+ subscribers which is amazing.
Also had a general good week on pageviews so super happy.
Decided to only focus on LinkedIn this week, which worked really well.
This is weekly recap for week 4 (25 January till 31 January)
Current status:
Articles: 320 (+7)
Twitter: 2925 (+101) followers / 519 (+4) following
Facebook: 820 (+1) likes / 859 (+1) followers / 6794 (-829) post reach
Instagram: Post 269 (+1) / 623 (+8) followers / 299 (0) following
Analytics: 1916 (+606) users / 2298 (+1131) sessions (excluding home IP) / Page views 3245 (+1084)
Queries: 2035 (+231) / Impressions 5722 (+306) / Clicks 62 (-26) / Average position: 43 (-3)
Mailchimp: 490 (+28) contacts
Impressive week, seeing a lot of people coming from LinkedIn, finally found some formats that work really well for LinkedIn, and it drove quite a lot of new people to the website, AND mailing list!
Also closing in on the one year mark, not sure what I’ll do, but it will be a big thing :)
This is weekly recap for week 3 (18 January till 24 January)
Current status:
Articles: 313 (+7)
Twitter: 2824 (+40) followers / 515 (+9) following
Facebook: 819 (+1) likes / 858 (0) followers / 7623 (-4186) post reach
Instagram: Post 268 (+1) / 615 (+5) followers / 299 (+2) following
Analytics: 1310 (-127) users / 1167 (-130) sessions (excluding home IP) / Page views 2161 (-97)
Queries: 1804 (-21) / Impressions 5416 (+120) / Clicks 88 (+44) / Average position: 39 (+5)
Mailchimp: 462 (+10) contacts
Really cool to see the search queries going down a little but, but double in clicks and position way improved!
I’ve been spending some more time on LinkedIn, and got a lot of new connections there, also still working hard on V2.
Twitter was a bit down this week, so need to put in some more effort in threads.
This is weekly recap for week 2 (11 January till 17 January)
Current status:
Articles: 306 (+7)
Twitter: 2824 (+144) followers / 506 (+2) following
Facebook: 818 (+8) likes / 858 (+7) followers / 11809 (+1952) post reach
Instagram: Post 267 (0) / 610 (-4) followers / 297 (-3) following
Analytics: 1838 (-368) users / 1297 (-486) sessions (excluding home IP) / Page views 2258 (-294)
Queries: 1825 (+93) / Impressions 5296 (+202) / Clicks 44 (+13) / Average position: 44 (0)
Mailchimp: 452 (+23) contacts
Wow, had a weekend away camping, so no internet to keep up to date, cool to see the blog did very well on it’s own! Cool to see the on-page SEO picking up and getting more and more organic growth. The mailing list for some reason also really spiked well.
This is weekly recap for week 53 (4 January till 10 January)
Current status: Articles: 299 (+7) Twitter: 2680 (+57) followers / 504 (-33) following Facebook: 810 (+3) likes / 851 (+2) followers / 9857 (+2440) post reach Instagram: Post 267 (+1) / 614 (0) followers / 300 (0) following Analytics: 1838 (-275) users / 1783 (-368) sessions (excluding home IP) / Page views 2552 (-318) Queries: 1732 (+23) / Impressions 5094 (+530) / Clicks 31 (+8) / Average position: 44 (-1) Mailchimp: 429 (+11) contacts
Almost hit +200 users everyday which was my goal, one day not hit, but another one spiked over 400 so not too fuzzed.
I also started doing live streams of me writing my articles.
Not everyday, but so far it’s been quite fun to do.
Still working hard on V2 on the side :)
This is weekly recap for week 52 (21 December till 27 December)
Current status: Articles: 285 (+7) Twitter: 2555 (+51) followers / 508 (+14) following Facebook: 809 (+3) likes / 852 (+3) followers / 12683 (+1544) post reach Instagram: Post 266 (+2) / 619 (-3) followers / 298 (-1) following Analytics: 1838 (+907) users / 2151 (+1006) sessions (excluding home IP) / Page views 2870 (+1254) Queries: 1708 (-183) / Impressions 4564 (-1719) / Clicks 23 (-3) / Average position: 43 (+1) Mailchimp: 474 (+131) contacts Pinterest: 0 (-) impressions / 0 (-) Engagements / 0 (-) Clicks
Wow what a week! Set myself the goal to get 200+ users every day and boy did that come true! I’ve doubles my views from last week, and even managed to swoop in an astonishing 131 new email subscribers!
This was mainly due to my giveaway, where I had the option to also subscribe to my list.
All and all a very rewarding week.
This is weekly recap for week 51 (14 December till 20 December)
Current status: Articles: 278 (+7) Twitter: 2555 (+159) followers / 508 (-2) following Facebook: 806 (+2) likes / 849 (0) followers / 11138 (-2428) post reach Instagram: Post 264 (+2) / 622 (0) followers / 299 (+1) following Analytics: 931 (-242) users / 1145 (-219) sessions (excluding home IP) / Page views 1616 (-416) Queries: 1708 (+92) / Impressions 6283 (+1101) / Clicks 26 (-8) / Average position: 44 (-3) Mailchimp: 343 (+29) contacts Pinterest: 0 (-) impressions / 0 (-) Engagements / 0 (-) Clicks
Quite a busy week, due to some house-sitting and 2 big deliveries at work.
Also managed to finish one side-project.
Pretty good, but you can see the site at this point in time still needs a lot of work and recall to keep the traction going.
Also started working on the SEO part (well not myself) just to see how much it will improve with some on-page SEO.
Wishing you all a merry Christmas 🎄
This is weekly recap for week 50 (7 December till 13 December)
Current status: Articles: 271 (+7) Twitter: 2396 (+125) followers / 510 (+10) following Facebook: 804 (+4) likes / 849 (+4) followers / 13566 (+903) post reach Instagram: Post 262 (+3) / 622 (-1) followers / 298 (-2) following Analytics: 1173 (+208) users / 1364 (+263) sessions (excluding home IP) / Page views 2032 (+363) Queries: 1708 (+54) / Impressions 5182 (-135) / Clicks 34 (-6) / Average position: 41 (-3) Mailchimp: 314 (+20) contacts Pinterest: 0 (-) impressions / 0 (-) Engagements / 0 (-) Clicks
Another dedicated welcoming week, I also had 2 tweets performing really well, and got some push from the Hashnode bootcamp where I was a speaker.
All and all a good week, finally over 1000 users again, really thinking I should start spending some money on the SEO part now.
This is weekly recap for week 49 (30 November till 6 December)
Current status: Articles: 264 (+7) Twitter: 2396 (+237) followers / 500 (+12) following Facebook: 800 (+6) likes / 845 (+7) followers / 12663 (-555) post reach Instagram: Post 259 (+2) / 623 (-1) followers / 300 (+3) following Analytics: 965 (+86) users / 1101 (+89) sessions (excluding home IP) / Page views 1669 (+197) Queries: 1654 (-72) / Impressions 5317 (-62) / Clicks 40 (+3) / Average position: 38 (+1) Mailchimp: 314 (+10) contacts Pinterest: 0 (-) impressions / 0 (-) Engagements / 0 (-) Clicks
I’ve decided to spend this week connecting to people who decided to follow me on Twitter/LinkedIn.
It seems to have worked in genuine connections, where I could ask these people to subscribe to my mailing list.
I plan to ask them in about a week how they are finding the mails.
I did notice from the other side it also is a negative on Twitter, where people unfollow quicker.
From a writing perspective, I’ve been struggling doing the longer articles.
I notice I keep choosing the smaller ones, but I need to sit down and write some bigger ones now.
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Hey Chris, I really like how consistent you are in your work and keep shipping new articles. It certainly pays and is also a long term asset in deriving traffic to the product.
You briefly mentioned about deciding to contact people who have followed you on Twitter/Linkedin. Have you tried this before? If yes, how successful have the conversions been?
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I've only done that since this week and the new week, and it does seem to make a difference, the people seem more engaged and without even asking start to subscribe.
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Thanks for the reply Chris. Well doing things that don't scale is one of the earliest marketing tactics given by experienced people in our industry.
It helps build a relationship with our users and gain valuable feedback to make our product more polished before we start scaling.
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100% I started asking them questions like:
What would be the 1 thing you would change
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Any feedback on the homepage layout
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What would you change in this article [link]
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