Whoa! Thank you! (1) Questions, and (2) About what Mel said before....

> Here's what I did in my first 30 days to launch a blog. My average daily
> traffic is now up to 51/day.

Same here -- my average daily VISITS are 59.

That's the one I want, right? Not page views, since some people view several pages??

> http://arkansas.blogsome.com/2005/02/11/marketing-a-business-blog/

Nice blog!! I'm saving my questions about some things I saw til the end.

> I use the free SiteMeter and you can see the search engine referrals and
> key words.

THANX!! I had no idea I could do that!!

I didn't have any referrals from search engines, which brings me to what Mel said:

She said most people won't find you through a search but through posts on boards, comments on other blogs, etc. That's exactly right in my case. Out of the last 100 visits, 3 were from comments on other blogs, 1 was from a post on another board, and all the rest were from right here at FIB.

Conclusion: Whoa doggy! If I didn't have this site to launch my own blog, I would have had 4 visitors :-(

Remedy: I've really gotta get out more.

I have a question about Visits though. I'm assuming that on SiteMeter, that does not mean "Unique Visits"?? This always confuses me, but it seems there were several repeats. Am I right about that?

> I hope to post Part 2 at the end of February.

Thank you again. These are the questions that came up at first glance:

When I first got my feeds running, I had a whole stack of "subscribe" buttons like you do (MyYahoo, MyMSN, Bloglines, etc.) -- then I went out visiting other blogs, and I saw most had just one, maybe two, so I thought, "Gawd! How Tacky!" and I got rid of all the ones that show up anyway when they go to FeedBurner (i.e., the ones I listed above + a few others).

Do you find it beneficial to have all those buttons there?

Where do you stop? There are a bzillion choices!!

You seem to be a tracking whiz, which I am not (I've never had time to bother with it before, but I'm trying to do better).

Next question:

I don't understand what "The URI to TrackBack this entry is: ...." means and why one comment says, "Comment by" and the other one says, "Trackback by".

Final question:

How do you know how many people have "blogrolled" your blog? (I read that someplace -- I don't see it in your message, so I must have read it on your blog.)

And by "blogrolled," do you mean "subscribed to the feed" through anywhere, or something specific to someplace called "blogroll"???

There is no easy way to tell how many people have "subscribed to your feed," is there, since there are so many ways to do that??

Thanks for the link to FIB! Interesting way to describe it -- "pre-blog board..." (although being under MLM is a new one:-).

I'm off to tell my bloggies about your blog and some of the places you mentioned.

Thanks again (did I say that before?).

Luv,

MaaMaw