Comments on: Blogrolls matter – do you want one here? http://www.mcgeesmusings.net/2007/05/04/blogrolls-matter-do-you-want-one-here/ "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." - Dorothy Parker Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:14:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rick Klau http://www.mcgeesmusings.net/2007/05/04/blogrolls-matter-do-you-want-one-here/comment-page-1/#comment-86421 Rick Klau Fri, 04 May 2007 17:14:47 +0000 http://www.mcgeesmusings.net/2007/05/04/blogrolls-matter-do-you-want-one-here/#comment-86421 It's funny... I'm starting to get a clearer sense of the fact that though my content is produced once, I have two very, very distinct audiences: those who read my posts in their readers (there are just over 1,000 of them) and those who find my site through searches each day - 90% of my site visitors come from search, and are nearly all 'new' visitors. So I have this one set of people who are very familiar with me and my writing, and another group who don't know me from Adam, and who show up without any context for where I'm coming from. Including a prominent "about" snippet in the sidebar, along with other stuff they might be interested in (my Google Reader shared links, along with a blogroll) seemed a good way to cater to those drive-by visitors... and if it serves another purpose (i.e., ranking/relevance for Google Blogsearch), then all the better. It’s funny… I’m starting to get a clearer sense of the fact that though my content is produced once, I have two very, very distinct audiences: those who read my posts in their readers (there are just over 1,000 of them) and those who find my site through searches each day – 90% of my site visitors come from search, and are nearly all ‘new’ visitors.

So I have this one set of people who are very familiar with me and my writing, and another group who don’t know me from Adam, and who show up without any context for where I’m coming from. Including a prominent “about” snippet in the sidebar, along with other stuff they might be interested in (my Google Reader shared links, along with a blogroll) seemed a good way to cater to those drive-by visitors… and if it serves another purpose (i.e., ranking/relevance for Google Blogsearch), then all the better.

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