Comments on: What Is Your Blog’s Participation Rate?

By: Ricky Buchanan

Ricky Buchanan — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:39:05 +0000

(also, now you know how far behind I am on feed reading :))

By: Ricky Buchanan

Ricky Buchanan — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:37:51 +0000

I use the BackType Conect plugin on my blogs so it’ll artificially inflate the participation rate significantly – for example check out http://atmac.org/accessibility-and-the-ipad-first-impressions/ which currently has 9 actual comments, 4 trackbacks, and 32 tweets about it which have been imported via BackType connect.

Nevertheless, the math would be:
1297 comments / 361 posts / 1235 subscribers = 0.0029

So about 3%. Except, less if you count the above factors :/

Also, the vast majority of my readers (over 85%) wander in via Google and are first-time readers who don’t stick. That’s not something that this takes into account.

It’s an interesting metric and says stuff that I hadn’t thought of before. Thank you.

By: Oscar

Oscar — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:31:15 +0000

Interesting perspective. I’ll keep mine to myself until they are less embarrassing. And onto reading some of the other posts about this, maybe I’ll learn something there.

By: White Shadow

White Shadow — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:06:23 +0000

Wow, 0.52 is quite something.

I didn’t spell out how I got my own 6% number in the post, so here it is :
(5653 comments / 272 posts) / 345 readers = 0.06 (=6%)

By: Ozh

Ozh — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:54:52 +0000

On my personal blog: 8267 comments / 765 posts = 10.8 / 1203 feed readers = 0,009

On my gamers blog: 160585 / 7715 = 20.8 / 40 = 0.52 (yeah, no feed promotion there but an active community nonetheless)