Posted by photonovice on 15th August 2008
This post is not about photography at all. It is about a heart warming global endavour soliciting bloggers to write about something else than most of us normally do.
About poverty.
You might have a political, design, photo or even a celebrity or sports blog, there are lots of topics in your area that are related to the global issue of poverty, the assumed causes and potential solutions.
See this promotional video below and join the Blog Action Day to do something really good with your blog on October 15, 2008:
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Posted by photonovice on 30th July 2008
I upgraded my blog engine a few days ago to version 2.6 and I hope no one noticed it. 
The whole thing went so extremely smoothly with the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin that I couldn’t help but donated a few bucks to its author Keith Dsouza.
Thanks Keith.
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Posted by photonovice on 21st May 2008
Believe it or not, this very blog was visited even from iPhones. But wait a sec. Let me take one step back and start this topic from there.
Even though I’m not a pro blogger with well defined monthly earnings target and I’m not selling anything here, I am interested in why and how readers are reaching my articles.
From the statistics it seems that almost 25% of the traffic arriving to Photonovice.net are from search engines. I’m pretty sure that not all the visitors coming here from e.g. Google can find answers for their questions, but the roughly 2 minutes time spent in average on the site when coming from Google is a good sign. The bad sign though is the nearly 70% bounce rate (percent of people leaving the blog after checking only one page) of the same traffic source.
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Posted by photonovice on 15th May 2008
And finally we got to the last chunk of our Blog Statistics Project. It is still rather blogging than photography related, but I’m extremely interested from where visitors are arriving to the photography related blogs.
So, where do you have readers from? In which countries are you popular? Which site is your best referrer friend? What search engine your readers are using to find you? Are many of your readers using feed readers checking the RSS feed of your blog regularly? And a geeky one at the end: have you ever checked what operating systems and browsers your readers are using?
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Posted by photonovice on 14th May 2008
I’m glad to announce the results of the second chunk of our Project on Blog Statistics. In this part I asked photography related bloggers and also photo sharing enthusiasts to check their visitor statistics for the most popular articles they wrote or images they took.
I was happy because the project page itself was visited quite a lot of times. And it’s not actually the number of visits that made me happy, but the promotion of the project from fellow bloggers that actually resulted in the high number. I would like to thank for the help of:
And surely I’m extraordinarily glad that I received a number of great submissions from great photography bloggers. The articles I received are telling about that bloggers are not checking their stats as often as I expected and especially as often as I do.
Check the project entries to read the most popular blog articles of the past 1 or 2 years. You might have missed them when they were written.
See them below in the order of the entry posting date.
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Posted by photonovice on 2nd May 2008
The second chunk of the Blog Statistics Project - Most Popular is going to close on May 9th. If you would like to share your most read articles or most viewed pictures, please visit the project page and submit your entry before that.
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