Today I finally crossed the long-elusive 3000 subscribers mark on New Music Strategies. I’m very happy about that.
My site New Music Strategies has been going for a good couple of years now. Nearly three, I think. Slowly, over that time, I’ve been building readership.
I don’t look at the stats that often, but there’s usually between 500 and 700 unique visitors a day, which I’m pretty pleased with.
But the metric that I’ve always been most interested in is the number of subscribers to the blog. People who think what I say is interesting enough to get it delivered to them in their feed reader. I was delighted when I hit the 2,500 mark back in May – and I’m thrilled to have finally passed the 3,000 mark today.
So I thought I’d note the occasion on my personal blog where the target is a much more modest 200 readers.
You can subscribe to New Music Strategies here. I wrote an article about RSS feeds here, where I called it “the most useful technology to come about since the invention of email”.
If you’re new to reading blogs through a feed reader, then I’d recommend using Google Reader. It’s really simple and easy to use – and it will transform your web experience.
Hooray!
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Congratulations Andrew! Good job and what a fine milestone to achieve.
Andrew, I thought I might let you know how I get your updates – out of interest…
You are fed directly into my iGoogle start page.
In my Gmail, you are also fed into the newsclips bit at the top.
Both of these seem to work fine.
As for Google Reader, I opt for news of specific interest, rather than headlines. I add RSS feeds from search results, which is cleverly generated to RSS by Google News. So one topic could be all news stories on ‘Michael Phelps” (no relation by the way – wish he was!).
I search his name as above in Google News.
On the left hand side of the results, is the ‘Recent’ section.
I change this to ‘last day’
Then copy the RSS link under the News Alerts icon.
Then paste that into Google Reader as a new feed.
Voila! Freshly delivered stories on Michael Phelps each day.