12 Parameters whether the blog is successful or not
I’ve found interesting article about how to build a success blog and become success blogger from here. These days, more and more Indonesian blogger labeled as irresponsible blogger because the use of anonymity for their identity. This is because of their blogs contains just gossip or slander to others. But in my opinion, they are scum bloggers and not a blogger in general.
Fatih Syuhud wrote on his blog : ” There are times when clear identity is not obligatorily required, and anonymity is forgiven and understood by the readers. But there are times where clear identity is a must and anonymity is a waste of time.”
In this post I’m trying to classify which can be used to determine whether the blog is successful or not :
1. True Identity
There are many instances where scientific writings/bloggings will automatically earn you credibility and honour you deserve. So, if the blogger concerned hiding his/her face under the sun, credibility is simply not there. You will not get loyal visitors when you hide your identity. If you run a business through blogs, you will not be trusted by your visistor or your customer unless you use the true identity.
2. Traffic
The number of visitors can become one of the parameters of the success of a blog. The more visitors on a blog, the more successful the blog. Traffic is usually distinguished itself again into 2 parameters :
- Unique Visitors: blog visitors come from 1 certain IP address
- Page Views: the total number of pages viewed by blog visitors
From the above ratios will usually be more easily see the quality of blog visitors. A blog called success, usually have a unique visitors and page views that high.
3. RSS Subscriber
In addition to the number of visitors, number of RSS subscribers also can be the parameters of a successful blog. Similarly, with traffic: the more number of RSS subscribers on a blog, the more successful is a blog. Although not enough used by many bloggers, but currently there are more blogs that install chicklet feed counter from FeedBurner. This means, many more bloggers who understand the function about RSS receive as one measure of the success of a blog.
4. Comments
Other parameters that can be the size of a successful blog is the number of comments. The formula is the same: the more comments on a blog, the more successful the blog. In addition to the number of comments, the quality of the comments also usually be a measure of success. It is often found blog with comments spamming or just want to get a backlink. By providing quality criteria comments, the quality of a blog’s success will be much higher.
5. SERP
SERP or search engine result pages also often become a parameter of success blog. The higher ranking in a search results page of search engine (for example, position 1 on the first page), the more successful is the blog.
6. Link Back
Although not too obvious, the number of links that lead back to a blog can also be used as one of the parameters of blog success or not. Blog with hundreds or even thousands link back be considered a success compared with the blogs that have only dozens of links back. In addition to drain the visitors, the number of links back also believed that large positions can improve the search results on search engines.
7. Ranking of the blog
The next parameter is often referred to measure a “Blog Ranking” like from Technorati and Alexa Rank. Technorati has a list of “Top 100 Blog” that is respected, where Blogger listed there often called as A-List blogger. Alexa Rank is a ranking system based on traffic where the lower of the Alexa Rank for a blog, the higher traffic receive by the blog.
8. Awards
Currently, more and more blog contest that gives awards to blogs and bloggers who are considered to meet certain criteria based on a particular category. Some awards can be considered to represent the quality of blog and blogger who become winners.
9. Fame
One of the parameters of success for a blog is a fame for a blog or bogger itself. This fame can come from the unique profile that are owned by the blogger, Buzz words that he/she made it through his/her blogs. Based on these parameter, a popular blog, although not have one customer RSS, it can be said that he/she have success blog.
10. Page Rank
Google Page Rank is a ranking system created by Google for referring to the popularity of a blog or blog page. In the 1-10 scale, the higher the number the Google PR (for example PR 8), the higher the ranking. Although many bloggers are not too concerned with the value of PR, must be recognized that a high Google PR is a measure of success.
11. Twitter Follower
As you can see at my blog, i am also using twitter widget. One of the parameters that can be used to measure the success of a blog is the number of Twitter Followers. The formula is the same with the RSS subscribers, the more number of Twitter Followers in a blog, the more successful is a blog.
12. Money
The last parameter can be used to assess the success or not for a blog (and bloggers) is the money earned from blogging activity. The more money produced by a blog (and blogger), the more successful is a blog. Although many bloggers who think that money is not the main purpose of blogging activity, but must also accepted that generate money through blogs is not something that illegal. If done in a way that is correct and ethical, generate money through the blog can even be a prospective business opportunities, legitimate and legal.
That is the 12 parameters which can be used to determine whether the blog is successful or not. So what do you think about that ?
Source :
- http://www.blogguebo.com/2008/11/11-parameter-blog-dan-blogger-sukses.html
- http://fatihsyuhud.com/2007/08/29/scientific-and-credible-blogger/
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January 7th, 2009 at 11:14 am
interesting post
January 8th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Thank bro atas informasi nya.
August 24th, 2009 at 3:23 am
A very good article, I’ve not seen many blogs from Indonesia apart from a couple of blogs but maybe there are many quality blogs out there and I am unaware of them. I am not sure whether they’re true bloggers or not but no one becomes blogger just in a day, it takes time to come up with a better strategy about how to run your blog and manage your articles and how to attract visitors. These are some wonderful tips and not only for Indonesian but anyone who wants to start a blog or having trouble with it can find it helpful. While identity plays a crucial part but comments also play crucial part because quality of the comments gives any visitor the idea how much the blog is maintained and what type of quality content would be here. Quality content attracts quality visitors then.
September 3rd, 2009 at 12:53 pm
All the 12 parameters are helpful for the bloggers who already create their blog and who wants to create their new blog. The most important topic is traffic of your blog. You can increase the traffic of your blog from the different ip address by regularly update the content of your blog.
October 12th, 2009 at 1:38 am
I was at a seminar once (can’t remember what it was about), and invited one of my employees to attend it with me. There were maybe 100 or so people in the room, and at the end the hosts went into the typical Q&A session. As I raised my hand to ask a question, my associate looked at me with deer-in-the-headlights eyes and asked, incredulously, ‘Are you really going to ask a question?!?’ To her it was simply inconceivable to do something like that. There is an entire block of readers that will NEVER consider leaving a comment, it’s just not part of their personality style.
I try to gear my blog towards users that are less than experts using the computer, and I know that many of my readers fall firmly into your #6. Even though I go to great lengths to make it simple, I know many will not comment because they’re afraid of asking the dreaded ‘stupid question’.