It is usual for a blog post to attract nearly all its visitors during the first few days after being published. This is so much so that the term
‘the long tail’ is often used to describe the shape of the visitor profile of a typical post.
Now and again a blogger may spot an exception.
‘Digital Natives? Digital Immigrants?’ is a post I published in mid-July this year. It was popular and attracted a couple of comments.
Normally even the tail of a popular post would dwindle quickly over a period of less than a week. After two or three months, only the occasional visitor would be registered by visitor tracking.
I use Google Analytics (GA) to track one sector of visitors to my blog.
It gives a fair indication of comparative popularity.
The July post is an exception to the long tail trend. Its visitor profile is at the top of this post. It has received recent attention of a magnitude not unlike what might be expected of a newly published post, yet it was published over four months ago.
I first took note of its unusual visitor profile when comments started to appear, again, as if out of the blue. It has since attracted a significant number of comments.
Occasionally posts generate very long tails that never really dwindle to nothing. Working With Online Learning Communities is such a post, published 1 April 2009. Its visitor profile shows recent steady traffic.
Posts with visitor profiles of this type tend to have been cited and linked on popular blogs or web pages.
Isn’t it heartening that not all posts receive the same fate as a time-capsule?
‘the long tail’ is often used to describe the shape of the visitor profile of a typical post.
Now and again a blogger may spot an exception.
‘Digital Natives? Digital Immigrants?’ is a post I published in mid-July this year. It was popular and attracted a couple of comments.
Normally even the tail of a popular post would dwindle quickly over a period of less than a week. After two or three months, only the occasional visitor would be registered by visitor tracking.
I use Google Analytics (GA) to track one sector of visitors to my blog.
It gives a fair indication of comparative popularity.
The July post is an exception to the long tail trend. Its visitor profile is at the top of this post. It has received recent attention of a magnitude not unlike what might be expected of a newly published post, yet it was published over four months ago.
I first took note of its unusual visitor profile when comments started to appear, again, as if out of the blue. It has since attracted a significant number of comments.
Occasionally posts generate very long tails that never really dwindle to nothing. Working With Online Learning Communities is such a post, published 1 April 2009. Its visitor profile shows recent steady traffic.
Posts with visitor profiles of this type tend to have been cited and linked on popular blogs or web pages.
Isn’t it heartening that not all posts receive the same fate as a time-capsule?
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