Three.

Since the beginning of quarter two my readership has increased quite a bit. The beginning of my increased readership seems to have started when I posted the link for my blog on other websites. I have a Facebook, a Tumblr, a Twitter, and a Flickr, and once I put up the like to my Blogger the number of views to my page went up. I also think that views to my blog increased when I went back and tagged all of my posts with key words to make it easier for outside viewers to find it. Something else that I tried was to try to keep to similar subject matters, but I’m not sure how much of an effect that really had.

The most popular post that I’ve written is my post titled Ink that I wrote of February fifth. I think that this was a popular post because of the subject matter and the interests of the people that I know. This was one of the first posts that I wrote after I started putting my Blogger link on Facebook, and the reaction by the people I know was great. I had a good number of my friends tell me that they really enjoyed what I had to say about the subject. I also posted the link of Tumblr where my followers tend to be interested in tattoos also. Impermanence was also a popular post. Though I have a more challenging time pinpointing what made it so. Perhaps it was just luck that people happened to want to read my blog that day, or maybe people were just interested in my stream of consciousness at the time. What I can say for sure though is that my readership went from twenty viewers for the entire month of December to three hundred and ninety five in February.

When looking at the sites that people have linked to my blog from, Facebook is by far the leader. With two hundred and forty eight links from Facebook it is followed by thirty nine direct links to my blog and twenty six from my Tumblr. Something that I’d like to try to improve on is the number of viewers that I can get from searching a key word. So far I’ve only had one that was searched under the key words “Alex Grey ideas”.

This quarter pretty much everything that I tried to do was able to boost my readership. In the future I would like to be able to increase the number of readers that will come back to my blog on a consistent basis that are outside of our school setting. Several of the people that I work with have told me that they come back and read my blog consistently, as so some people from Canada and England, but I’d like to see this number increase in the future. If I had to assign myself a grade for quarter three blogging I would give myself an ‘A’. Not because I just want to have the good grade, but because I think that I deserve it for working to advertise my blog consistently, post on a regular basis, read and comment on the blogs of my classmates, and improve the appearance of my page.

As a writer, I’ve learned that if you know how to write for your target audience that you will be much more successful than if you were to just haphazardly write anything down about a chosen topic. I am rather new to this type of writing so I need to build up my skills at this a little bit. But now that I am aware of this fact I can work of my writing techniques. I’m not sure if I have really noticed a change in my writer’s persona simply because I do not really know what my persona was like before this blogging experience because I didn’t write very much. But I plan to continue using this blog after I leave St. Mark’s, so hopefully I will be able to look back and notice some changes.