I guess I’m an incurable name dropper. Besides our old friends in the insurance industry I’d like to welcome various New York law firms, Citigroup Global, Exxon Mobile and Wal Mart to Slabbed today. We have a pool going on when Morgan Stanley will be showing up. 😉
When Nowdy and I started Slabbed back in March our goal was not page views but rather simply to have the right people reading us. We are very pleased to report we met that goal and then some.
Internally we’ve had a spirited debate on whether to be more forthcoming with our site stats. Our friends at Phunk and Wagnalls for instance set their site meter account to public access. My experience is most blogs are not so open.
Do we get 100,000 or page views a day here at slabbed? No. But since Nowdy agreed I could talk traffic in very broad terms I’ll add we crossed 6 figures for page views months ago. Not bad for a blog on insurance and select southern legal cases. Sam Friedman will tell you insurance is very dry topic. He is right.
So my question is should we be more forthcoming with our traffic stats and why or why not? I won’t promise any changes (Nowdy is a strong willed woman which is good because I’m hardheaded) but I’d like to hear what you guys think?
sop
What is the rationale for keeping the info private? If your objective is quality why keep readership a secret?
Stats please. The only downside is it might scare people off. They’ll log on elsewhere; it’s too addictive not to.
Sid the goal was to bring together insurers and policy makers. Having wind water litigators like Rick show up was a big time bonus.
So on one hand the page views don’t matter in light of that goal. On the other since we have generated a good bit of public interest in such a specialized subject I’m frankly shocked and pleasantly surprised.
Nowdy brings the quality. She also generally keeps me straight.
sop
It’s like Nowdy said you said, Sop. It not how many read us, it’s who read us, right? Although we have very impressive numbers given the complicated subject here, but it’s mind blowing how deep we get into these discussions which are especially helpful nowadays when these issues are in our forefront.
Okay but what do you see as the downside of making the readership numbers public? I guess, for that matter, what do you see as the upside? Heck, why mention the size of the readership at all if the focus is quality?
We’ve talked it a good bit internally Sid and I wanted some other takes thats all.
All I know is we must have a patron saint at Google.
sop