I'm looking at other people's blogs and I'm noticing how some blogs have much higher stats than my Kristen's Guide (http://www.kristensguide.com) site.

Lots of sites are better than mine, so what's the problem?

To put it nicely... the sites I'm talking about aren't very interesting or useful.

I've read their posts. OK, so their dog went to the vet, their kid had a birthday, and they found a cool site about cheese. Nice, but why would I want to subscribe to that?

More importantly, why do other people subscribe to it? Why do they have so many visitors? Why is their Alexa rating so high? And how did they build up that much traffic when their blog has only been up for three months, has only 7 posts, and has only 4 sites linking to it (and they're not even high ranking sites)?

Something's fishy?

While I'm looking at their sites, though, I've been noticing that the layouts aren't exactly optimized for web advertising, and most of them don't even have ads in their feeds (not even sponsored posts). So I suppose they're not making much cash from their sites.

I don't have amazing stats, but my little online hobby is paying me a pretty penny, so at least that makes up for my stat envy.

Labels: Blogging and Websites