It (fortunately) hasn’t gone unnoticed that there have been no published blog posts to the Tomato in over two weeks. Have you ever wondered what the effects of not writing for two weeks on a regularly updated blog will have? We can’t speak for you, but this is what has happened to us.
Missing Person (Blogger) Alert
The very thoughtful concern for my well-being has been the most notable reaction to the absence of blogging here on Tomato.
Thanks to all of you whom expressed your sincere concern. It is comforting to know that the friends I have made through blogging are just that, friends.
Traffic Slump The daily traffic that is generated by the Tomato has taken a significant hit. What was regularly 330-350 daily unique visitors is now hovering around 185. That's a drop of nearly half. At a quick glance, it appears that the traffic source that is holding strong is the Search Engines. Google, which accounted for about 35% of daily traffic is now closer to 45%. Not rocket science here, but it could be deduced that half that daily traffic was coming to read the articles we had published and syndicated.
Naturally, with the traffic slump comes the blog directory ranking slump as well. What was normally a 25-28 placement ranking in BlogTopSites is now 41. Being competitive, that one especially stings.
Comments Slump
Comments, after publishing an article range from 10–20 per article and 4–5 per day in between writing days.
During the last 2 weeks we have received 23 comments total. This is encouraging, but, it is also safe to assume that this rate would continue to suffer the longer we delayed posting new content for our regular readers (whom leave most of the comments).
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