eddy.lt Homecoming aka Blogcoming

Come, hit me with this
newspaper for being
to lazy to blog.

Those of you who blog on your free time, will know how I feel right now. You have been real busy lately (or just plain lazy. Or both?) and did not fully commit to your resolution to blog as much as you intended initially. But now your back to your blog with slight shame and this annoying question in your head - is it really worth my time? I have things I want to share, but do people want to read about it? Maybe I am just wasting my time e.g. I could be having the time of my life outside right now (today is a really lovely day in San Francisco). For me this reminds a little homecoming, or more precisely blogcoming. lolz

So what you do is look for motivation - positive feedback from outside. I have been geting some reminders / questions from my friends when is my next blog post coming, but I always think their are interested in my life abroad and thoguhts because we are friends (and many of them are stoker liek nosy like me). So I went into Google Analytics (your best friend for more or less whatever you want to do and  online). Also visited my blog's stats page and hit "All time" (at least in Blogger. And yes, I am a Google fan boy). What I saw really surprised me in a very nice way:

• With 38 blog post I wrote this year so far my blog got visited > 5k times by 3k unique visitors from 81 countries. This means I only spent 3 months (from 10) blogging [my lesser than average wannabe blogger content], but people came and read. Almost 40% of them more than once.
• Those 3k visitors on average spent almost 3 min reading stuff I wrote and only 1/4 bounced (pretty low from my experience). Most of my blog posts are quite short, thus this means people found them interesting. 
• And finally, what really hit the spot spot for me, was that in eddy.lt the most read (and with longest average time) post are:
1. my take on why 500 startups with their project "Geeks On Plane" should come to Lithuania,
2. a short overview of Russian Internet market I put together after spending 3,5 months on project aimed at Russian online clothes market which didn't even came close to launching (how about this for fun way to fail a startup),
3. and my opinions about ACTA,

So the conclusion of my research is that people come to my blog (I haven't advertised it in any way besides dropping a link to a new post in my personal Facebook page once in a while), read stuff and mostly original content put together by myself (compare to sharing cool stuff and event reviews). Do track your statistics / progress in blogging? I would really appreciate you sharing your way to do it.

Anyway, these conclusions call to action and there will be a blog post around every 3rd day from now on. With 1st one coming out tomorrow (Sunday) about my the time I have spent and things I learned in Silicon Valley.   

Oh, and since on the topic of getting things done - check out my new free time project #OSILF - “A very simple service for sharing what your startup is looking for!”

Shameless self promotion - me introducing #OSILF in Lithuanian startup event :)

Thanks for reading,

Eddy