Written on September 4th, 2007 at 05:09 am by Darren Rowse

What was Hot at ProBlogger in August?

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Last month was a pretty massive month here at ProBlogger with a record level of traffic (Google Analytics shows it at about 650,000 page views and our server side stats place it at 1.3 million - so it’s somewhere in between), 3959 comments (a new record) and 107 posts (the highest rate of posting at PB for at least 12 months). There was a lot of action on the blog a couple of reasons. It was partly a result of the blog’s redesign (which led to an increase in both actual visitors and pages viewed per visitor) as well as the 31 Day project.

107 posts is a lot to digest - so I’ve decided to summarize the top 15 in terms of visitor numbers.

Here’s a quick summary of the hottest 10 posts from ProBlogger in August 2007:

Of course this month was also popular for the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog Project which has 31 of my own blog tips and over 600 of yours!

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17 Responses to “What was Hot at ProBlogger in August?”

  • Sly from Slyvisions.com

    September 4th, 2007 6:20 am

    I really liked the project and the posts you have written Darren. There was no doubt that it helped everyone take part in what a blogging community should be through ProBlogger.

    Sly from Slyvisions.com

  • The How-To Geek

    September 4th, 2007 6:43 am

    That’s a really huge difference between Analytics and server stats… what exactly would cause that?

    I can’t imagine that half the readers have disabled javascript…

  • Tejvan Pettinger

    September 4th, 2007 6:59 am

    Blogging often creates a momentum. One minute it can be difficult to write a post. But once you get going ideas keep coming.

  • capturesteve

    September 4th, 2007 7:01 am

    I have the same problem with the server side stats not being the same as google analytics.

  • Michael from Pro Blog Design

    September 4th, 2007 7:26 am

    Wow. And they say summers are slow…

    I’m not surprised though. Your 31 days series was fantastic. :)

  • redwall_hp

    September 4th, 2007 8:19 am

    I enjoyed the 31 Days series. It was fun reading through the huge lists of reader-submitted tips. Any chance of you doing something like that again?

  • Brad V.

    September 4th, 2007 8:38 am

    Wow Darren, congratulations on a successful August! I agree with what others said in the comments; the 31 Days series was awesome! I learned some really useful things during those posts and will probably refer back to them often.

    Likewise, August was a record month for my blog as well. I didn’t receive even close to the fraction of visitors you did, but for me, it was a lot. I owe a lot of it to your help.

    Thanks and keep up the good work!

  • Darren Rowse

    September 4th, 2007 8:49 am

    thanks Brad (and everyone) - I’m glad to hear things are growing on your blog too - keep up the great work.

    Redwall - we’ll do another one at some point in the coming months.

    In terms of serverside stats - from my experience, they are always bigger than anything like google analytics or sitemeter. I can’t remember the technical details of why (but I suspect it’s because they don’t count pages that don’t fully load etc) but it’s pretty normal.

  • Sean

    September 4th, 2007 10:30 am

    Your Alexa Traffic Overview show a huge increase after the new theme too. I like this new design and it make browsing a lot easier.

  • festiva

    September 4th, 2007 11:12 am

    I am learning a lot from ProBlogger. 31 days is indeed a knockout!! Great & handy in every sense. Thanks.

  • Glenn Tan

    September 4th, 2007 12:49 pm

    i’ld go consolidate the tips from the “31..” and then thank you later!:p

  • Blog opinion

    September 4th, 2007 1:12 pm

    Hi. I will be a regular reader of your blog. keep posting new techniques. Can you tell us how much traffic you get daily from search engines . 650,000 wow! .

  • Blog Bloke

    September 4th, 2007 1:14 pm

    Congratulations Darren

  • Terra Andersen

    September 4th, 2007 2:27 pm

    I definitely LOVED the project as well. Great job! Also, the redesign is very updated as well… I have seen quite a few A-lister bloggers convert to this type of layout within the last few months.

    Congrats on the records traffic and comments! *=)

  • RoriG

    September 4th, 2007 3:23 pm

    I agree with the others–your 31 day project was great and the site design looks fabulous! Congrats on a wonderful month.

  • Darren Rowse

    September 4th, 2007 3:45 pm

    thanks to everyone for your feedback. I do appreciate your support and participation at ProBlogger. The great thing is that in the last month comments were up by a higher proportion than actual traffic so as a community you’re really helping to keep improving this site.

  • Dave

    September 4th, 2007 11:16 pm

    I wonder if comments are up everywhere among the top blogs, since John Chow recently spoke of “commenting your way to the top” of the search-engine rankings.

    Also, I would be interested in reading a analysis of linking patterns: the links to your individual posts here on problogger.

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