Now as you may or may not know I am a programmer by trade, and yet I have made one of the most fundamental flaws you could possibly make when starting a community driven website like this. I forgot to activate the bloody commenting plug-in. This meant that whilst I was sitting here feeling lonely and unloved by people who had read my little blog so far. It would appear you guys were actually trying to pass comment. Thanks go out to the University Kid and Matt from www.theonlymp.com for emailing me and letting me know. We can only assume that now the commenting feature is working we will be inundated by fabulously intellectual, sophisticated and witty comments from our readers.

The commenting experiment is working well and yesterday we received our highest amount of visitors so far. What I deem to be a hugely impressive, quite frankly awe-inspiring 27 visits. Ok I exaggerate, but we are seeing a daily increase and if this continues? Well surly it won’t take long till we’re up there with the likes of Tyler or indeed the infamous cow. I can only put this insurgence of traffic down to the fact that we are on the top commenter list on John Chow, Shoemoney and Tyler Cruz with only The Rating Blog being seemingly impossible to break into. Damn the people there have a lot to say. How they have the time to post all these comments I don’t know. I’m starting to think Alan maybe either A) employing them or B) impersonating commentators. Not that I would want to stir up any controversy by saying such things. I do find it just a little odd that the majority of the top commenter’s don’t have a website of their own. You don’t see that many other big blogs now do you?

The great commenting experiment: Early observations

Day three of the great commenting experiment and we have seen a number of visits so far. Ok so far that number is quite small, and it’s already obvious that if I were to rely on just commenting on big blogs in order to get traffic, I will never be more than a tiny minnow in a very large pond. Luckily for me I am not a pony with just the one trick, and this is just the first experiment of many, I plan to make my mark in the blogosphere.

Interestingly enough I am getting more traffic and better readership from the smaller blogs, with Tyler Cruz providing not only the largest number of visitors so far but also those which stay around the longest. John Chow on the other hand has provided but one single visit and he didn’t even stay long enough for our header image to load. Based on the results so far I will be spending more time hunting for smaller blogs to comment on to see if this is a blogging trend!

I plan on keeping this experiment running for at least a week, I believe some of the poor traffic results so far could be because we have been commenting at the weekend which is traditionally a quieter time for all websites. Also I have yet to make the top commenter spot on any site other than Tyler’s which may also explain why we have received more hits from his bog than others. So for now the plan is to keep commenting, wait for the sun burn on my face to fade and have a nice old drink up to celebrate my flat mate’s birthday. Enjoy the rest of your weekend and happy clogging.