1,023 Subscriptions
Feedburner feed subscriptions increased 27% in August to 1,023.
It was neat to get to the 1,000 subscription mark. (Sanel called it in a comment on the July Income Report!)
Subscriptions are my favorite indicator of blog growth.
2007 Monthly Subscriptions
Traffic can be fickle, but subscribers represent a regular reader base. The growth curve for feed subscriptions is much smoother than the curve for page views.
Best of all, the compound monthly growth rate (3-month rolling average) of my feed subscriptions is 32% vs. 21% for page views.
32% compounded exponentially is much more exciting than 21.
Subscriptions vs. Visits
There’s an interesting correlation between feed subscriptions and average daily unique visitors.
As you can see on the chart, the feed line (blue) is much more consistent than the average daily visits line (green).
But, in general, the number of my feed subscribers is just about the same as the number of daily visits.
Subscription growth continues to be an exciting indicator at Genius Types! Thanks to all my loyal readers.
Why do you think your readers are interested in growth stats and bragging how much passive income you make from us reading? Personally, it makes me want to unsubscribe.
A lot of Genius Types readers are bloggers themselves who enjoy seeing the nuts and bolts of how this blog works. I started posting this kind of information because I found myself looking for it on other people’s blogs. I appreciate your feedback.
Brian, how would you explain this phenomenal growth? I am having a hard time going over 120 subscribers… any tricks?
Do you do any advertising of your blog to have helped accelerate this growth rate? Thanks.
I haven’t advertised, but I have been able to rank highly on Google searches, mainly because I have a lot of incoming links.
I appreciate the kind words. I’m not sure if I have any tricks, but I have noticed a few things that seem to be effective. I seem to have the most growth when I’m posting consistently and reaching out to other blogs with links, comments, and emails.