I missed to update you on last couple of days, I am looking after the participation in my recent contest on my blog’s first anniversary with $3000 worth cash and prizes. There are only 2-3 days remaining for contest to get over. Check out my blog homepage and you would find the link to contest – Have your pie of prizes!
Despite the controversy created by one of the participants, to get some attention [Though it was mentioned in the contest that this will be strictly for RSS subcription and it would be later for traffic etc as well but still people keep on discussing why not all parameters now – wait guys!] 😉 – did not stop the top participants to go on and on.. specially the toppers.
I am posting to help new investors to make money in Indian Stock markets. I launched this blog in March, 2007. My blog acquired almost 600 subscribers in just 5 months. Helping investors to make money is my biggest promotional activity.
Till Daniel brings up some solution as he is working on it, here is the list today –
Here are Top 7, interestingly there is a new entrant, at 6th position that shows initial count “0”.
Till Daniel brings up some solution as he is working on it, here is the list today –
Here are Top 7, interestingly there is a new entrant, at 6th position that shows initial count “0”. Umar has seen some drop in readers, but hope it’s just FB dip.
This is one of the finest blogging contest till date, and that too for corporate blogs. This clearly marks the era that corporates have increasingly started appreciating & accepting blogs as the next generation IT tool.
Here is the new list guys, there is an observation which I would like to share with you.
Top two are tough contenders and both of them offer something free to their readers. Such enormous kind of increase in readership is possible with such blogs with little bit of promotion.
Well here are Top 7 today
(Past rank->Current rank) Blog | Increase
(1 From 1) romeuy – 759 -> 1000 = 241
Man, Rome is burning!!
(2 From 2) stockmarketindia – 953 -> 1120 = 167
Stready increase! These both blogs are standing out from the crowd.
(3 From 3) umarsiddiqi – 69 -> 145 = 76
Bravo Umar!
(4 From 4) standoutblogger – 30 -> 77 = 47
(5 New) stockmarketguide – 559 -> 595 = 36
New Entry!
(6 New) roshanbh – 317 -> 346 = 29
One more new entry!
(7 New) solidsmack – 780 -> 809 = 29
One more one more new entry!!
There are 3-4 blogs very close to last couple of blogs, but I decided to limit my list to Top 7.
By the way, my excel sheet shows many new entries in Top 12.
My blog was accepted too but isn’t in this list? My husband has been ill which is why i haven’t mentioned it sooner, am I too late to participate. There were 94 participants when I was accepted on 24th June.
@ 136. Stock Market Informer, I’m working on popularizing feedreadership too 😉 I’ve some subscrisers with my 6 posts on my blog 😉 Now the main task for me – make a blog more famous – and, so, subscribers’ll come with the popularity I think 🙂
@ 122. Peter, Yup I am aware of this fact. My comment was to tell more on the side of this contest that would help me to increase my feedreaders as I have part of focus is towards working on popularizing the feedreadership equal to other efforts on the blog 🙂
@ Mommy, you are right. Your stats were overlooked by me – apologize. And you pretty much stand at 5th position in the list. I don’t enter all data in my excel sheet, but believe on my eyes and added 20 odd blogs that are running ahead in the competition.
Please keep on helping me to update my list to get you the exciting analysis periodically. 😉
Hey Life is Colorful – thanks for doing the stats! That is great – but I think I actually might be on the list (I guess I’m just kinda excited because I really didn’t think I’d be able to keep up with anyone on this list because I’m a Mommy Blog. . .) because looking at who is on your list I was at 17 and now I’m at 38 – so I have grown by 21 members. Anyways – no biggie, you don’t have to redo or put me on your list – I guess I just needed to toot my own horn! 🙂
Or – maybe you did look and somehow I’m not understanding my stats and I shouldn’t be on your list. . .that is a possibility too! 🙂
nah. I really think some of the other competitors still has a lot of ideas on their mind. I on the other hand have nothing else. lol Will have to do more research now.
btw my feed count has been increasing that way since I started the blog about 2 months ago 🙂 In two months I was able to get 700+ to subscribe. It’s not offine promotion but it is search engine promotion. High trend low density is the key.
I did have a couple of my offline friends subscribe to my feed 😀
Here is the new list guys, I considered Daniel’s decision to consider 29th June as start date for blogs with a dip on 30th June.
Top 7 today:
(Past rank->Current rank) Blog | Increase | (%age)
(1 From 4) romeuy – 759 -> 934 = 175 (23%)
Wow, 99 Subscribers increased in last 2 days [2 days back it was 835] is hard to believe. But it’s just an awesome lead taken. I tried to dig out if any promotion done on the blog, but I did not find any. It must be either offline promotion [which I would certainly like to know] or I don’t know :).
Stock market informer, hah it’s rather easier to add over 200 subscribers when quantity of your subscribers is over 1000. It’s more difficult, when you’ve 0 subscribers 😉
@ Krishna, the feedburner sneeze is not regular but appears quite often on your count graph. You would probably find it on most of the feedburner stats graph for any blog if you check for last 6 months. It’s a technical glitch that sets your count to some low number and come back to normal next day.
I have seen it quite a few times by now and can analyze the feedburner data with some online tools available.
@Daniel : Thanks, I am fine with the June29th start date. It ensures it ensures a fair competition.
@Life is Colourful : Thanks for the nice stat summary.
Any idea about the reason behind this RSS count sneeze? I have been blogging for almost an year and have not experienced such big fall-jum back till date.
Life is colourful – Something is a bit weird about 3 of the tops 8’s stats. They seemed to have a massive and I mean massive, dip in feed subscribers on the day of the start of blogging idol and then they were back to normal the next day :S
I think to be fair all our starts should start from the day earlier or later to accomodate for this…
Well, I have done a quick analysis for you all guys. Statistics is my favorite subject and dailyblogtips is my favorite blog. So I would keep on updating you about the contest toppers:
Top 8 Competitors:
Blog | Increase | (%age) | [with stats of 29June, 30June, 1July, 2July, 3July]
First three blogs and dsplog did not impress me much because of the deep on 30th June [It might be because of feedburner sneeze, in that case there initial count shall be considered from 29th June].
Romeuy, stockmarketindia, dev102 and umarsiddiqi are in linear progress without hiccups.
Guys, I might miss some of the high flying blogs so help me update the list with any missing blogs. I had missed to add dsplog in the list a while back.
@Daniel .. you should ask for blogger volunteers to be watchdogs for this competition.. they could discuss things they have observed privately with you.
Or maybe you are doing it.. you know watching us out (a loooooot of worrrk)
sure we know the rules.. but it would help if the ones crossing the line will be determined right away.. just to keep it fair.
Daniel Scocco is a programmer and entrepreneur located in São Paulo, Brazil. His first company, Online Profits, builds and manages websites in different niches. His second company, Kubic, specializes in developing mobile apps for the iOS and Android platforms.
I missed to update you on last couple of days, I am looking after the participation in my recent contest on my blog’s first anniversary with $3000 worth cash and prizes. There are only 2-3 days remaining for contest to get over. Check out my blog homepage and you would find the link to contest – Have your pie of prizes!
Despite the controversy created by one of the participants, to get some attention [Though it was mentioned in the contest that this will be strictly for RSS subcription and it would be later for traffic etc as well but still people keep on discussing why not all parameters now – wait guys!] 😉 – did not stop the top participants to go on and on.. specially the toppers.
Here is the analysis of recent changed numbers:
Well here are Top 10 today
(Past rank->Current rank) Blog | Increase
(1 From 1) #66 romeuy – 759 -> 1105 = 346
(2 From 2) #2 stockmarketindia – 953 -> 1200 = 247
(3 NEW) #8 homedesignfind – 89 -> 231 = 142
(4 NEW) #48 jobmob – 684 -> 782 = 98
(5 From 3) #24 umarsiddiqi – 69 -> 148 = 79
(6 From 4) #1 standoutblogger – 30 -> 101 = 71
(7 New) #23 everything-everywhere – 559 -> 595 = 36
There are two new entries today, homedesignfind and jobmob. Both of them shot up in last couple of days making the competition interesting.
Alright, I am back to excel sheet for my Life is Colourful blog anniversary contest.
I think I’m in 3rd now with a mention on PVPonline.com yesterday. I have a few more podcast tricks up my sleeve this month.
Im still just hanging on to 4th spot 😀
I am posting to help new investors to make money in Indian Stock markets. I launched this blog in March, 2007. My blog acquired almost 600 subscribers in just 5 months. Helping investors to make money is my biggest promotional activity.
yes that’s what I am hoping too…. I wonder where all the readers went! Does my blog suck that much?
Till Daniel brings up some solution as he is working on it, here is the list today –
Here are Top 7, interestingly there is a new entrant, at 6th position that shows initial count “0”.
Till Daniel brings up some solution as he is working on it, here is the list today –
Here are Top 7, interestingly there is a new entrant, at 6th position that shows initial count “0”. Umar has seen some drop in readers, but hope it’s just FB dip.
Blog Initial Current Increase
romeuy.com 759 1017 258
stockmarketindia 953 1152 199
umarsiddiqi 69 126 57
standoutblogger 30 75 45
bloggingisnotacrime 0 45 45
solidsmack.com 780 820 40
techtreak 196 232 36
This is one of the finest blogging contest till date, and that too for corporate blogs. This clearly marks the era that corporates have increasingly started appreciating & accepting blogs as the next generation IT tool.
Bloggers . we have come a long way!! CLICK on
@Chrs, I am working on that.
@Mandy, you missed one of the requirements, the feed count activated.
Is there a place we can keep up todate with the Bloggers Idol stats? I mean without following the comments?
Is it too late to enter? I don’t think I have a chance but it would be fun.
oh its now back to the correct number. Sorry 🙂
Wow. Thanks again Life is Colourful.
btw, How did you see my feed count? The counter I had on my blog displays 49 subscribers lol
My subscriber count drops every 5 or 6 days 🙂 I don’t know why that happens but a lot of people also has that problem so I just didn’t mind it.
Do you think I need to contact feedburner about this ? 🙂
Here is the new list guys, there is an observation which I would like to share with you.
Top two are tough contenders and both of them offer something free to their readers. Such enormous kind of increase in readership is possible with such blogs with little bit of promotion.
Well here are Top 7 today
(Past rank->Current rank) Blog | Increase
(1 From 1) romeuy – 759 -> 1000 = 241
Man, Rome is burning!!
(2 From 2) stockmarketindia – 953 -> 1120 = 167
Stready increase! These both blogs are standing out from the crowd.
(3 From 3) umarsiddiqi – 69 -> 145 = 76
Bravo Umar!
(4 From 4) standoutblogger – 30 -> 77 = 47
(5 New) stockmarketguide – 559 -> 595 = 36
New Entry!
(6 New) roshanbh – 317 -> 346 = 29
One more new entry!
(7 New) solidsmack – 780 -> 809 = 29
One more one more new entry!!
There are 3-4 blogs very close to last couple of blogs, but I decided to limit my list to Top 7.
By the way, my excel sheet shows many new entries in Top 12.
Hi Daniel,
My blog was accepted too but isn’t in this list? My husband has been ill which is why i haven’t mentioned it sooner, am I too late to participate. There were 94 participants when I was accepted on 24th June.
This is fantastic!!! I am getting IN… Competition, fasten your seat belts… 🙂
Evel: I see what you mean – if I counted correctly 27 people have actually lost readers from this contest.
It’s just a dip in the numbers. It will be back in a day or two 🙂
@Evel
Many people notice a dip over weekends!
Is anyone else concerned that they are losing readers? I notice it is not just me.
@ 136. Stock Market Informer, I’m working on popularizing feedreadership too 😉 I’ve some subscrisers with my 6 posts on my blog 😉 Now the main task for me – make a blog more famous – and, so, subscribers’ll come with the popularity I think 🙂
@ 122. Peter, Yup I am aware of this fact. My comment was to tell more on the side of this contest that would help me to increase my feedreaders as I have part of focus is towards working on popularizing the feedreadership equal to other efforts on the blog 🙂
200 words is the word limit mate.
Daniel has stated above that it should be 100-200 words in length and just briefly go over the strategies you have or are going to be using.
again, great job @Life is Colorful!!
there should be a separate post or something with latest standings…
4th :D… lets see if I can stay in the top 10!
I forgot about the strategy. Do we have a guideline for these? or a word limit? I will have to start working on mine.
@Winning Startups i think the reports are due in today (sounds like homework :P) i have emailed Daniel mine.
When are our strategy reports due for the week?
@ Mommy, you are right. Your stats were overlooked by me – apologize. And you pretty much stand at 5th position in the list. I don’t enter all data in my excel sheet, but believe on my eyes and added 20 odd blogs that are running ahead in the competition.
Please keep on helping me to update my list to get you the exciting analysis periodically. 😉
Hope you guys are enjoying it!
Hey Life is Colorful – thanks for doing the stats! That is great – but I think I actually might be on the list (I guess I’m just kinda excited because I really didn’t think I’d be able to keep up with anyone on this list because I’m a Mommy Blog. . .) because looking at who is on your list I was at 17 and now I’m at 38 – so I have grown by 21 members. Anyways – no biggie, you don’t have to redo or put me on your list – I guess I just needed to toot my own horn! 🙂
Or – maybe you did look and somehow I’m not understanding my stats and I shouldn’t be on your list. . .that is a possibility too! 🙂
@Life is Colourful
Your updates here are very helpful.
nah. I really think some of the other competitors still has a lot of ideas on their mind. I on the other hand have nothing else. lol Will have to do more research now.
@ Rome, thanks for awaiting for my analysis today. With this speed, you would win this contest by 10th July… LOL!
btw my feed count has been increasing that way since I started the blog about 2 months ago 🙂 In two months I was able to get 700+ to subscribe. It’s not offine promotion but it is search engine promotion. High trend low density is the key.
I did have a couple of my offline friends subscribe to my feed 😀
Thank you again Life is Colofourful. I checked this post more than 10 times today for your update 🙂
Here is the new list guys, I considered Daniel’s decision to consider 29th June as start date for blogs with a dip on 30th June.
Top 7 today:
(Past rank->Current rank) Blog | Increase | (%age)
(1 From 4) romeuy – 759 -> 934 = 175 (23%)
Wow, 99 Subscribers increased in last 2 days [2 days back it was 835] is hard to believe. But it’s just an awesome lead taken. I tried to dig out if any promotion done on the blog, but I did not find any. It must be either offline promotion [which I would certainly like to know] or I don’t know :).
(2 From 6) stockmarketindia – 953 -> 1028 = 75 (7.8%)
Seems like the email subscription box right in front on homepage is going steady. But in %age, it’s still too small.
(3 From 8) umarsiddiqi – 69 -> 124 = 55 (79.7%)
Steady increase for Umar from Dubai.
Looks like Umar is rocking with highest %age increase.
(4 New) standoutblogger – 30 -> 67 = 37 (123.33%)
Nice enter into Top list, %age increase has left even Umar behind. Have to work on number increase now.
(5 New) melvinblog – 16 -> 34 = 18 (112.5%)
Small numbers will grow big soon
(6 From 1) gauravonomics – 207 (Dip on 30th June considered or it was 64) -> 223 = 16 (7.7%)
(7 New) phatmommy – 126 -> 142 = 16 (12.7%)
Blogs from Past Toppers’ List:
economicshelp – 141 [Dip on 30th June considered or it was 82] -> 147 = 6 (4.2%) [141, 82, 155, 156, 158]
techtreak – 196 [Dip on 30th June considered or it was 134] -> 196 = 0 (0%) [196, 134, 223, 221, 221]
dsplog – 84 -> 87 [Dip on 30th June considered or it was 41] = 3 (3.5%) [84, 41, 98, 93, 98]
dev102 – 394 -> 337 = -57 (-14.5%) [329, 394, 415, 437, 434]
Seems like dev102 is experiencing Feedburner sneeze, and I hope to see this blog back in action.
@Life is Colourful: great work dude
@daniel: is it possible to have a third column in the list to see current standings?
Stock market informer, hah it’s rather easier to add over 200 subscribers when quantity of your subscribers is over 1000. It’s more difficult, when you’ve 0 subscribers 😉
I am happy that due to this contest motivation – my feed subscriber count crossed 1000 milestone.
Whether I would win this contest or no, I am happy if I could add 200-400 new subscribers like April-May months.
Thanks everyone for appreciating my efforts!
@ Krishna, the feedburner sneeze is not regular but appears quite often on your count graph. You would probably find it on most of the feedburner stats graph for any blog if you check for last 6 months. It’s a technical glitch that sets your count to some low number and come back to normal next day.
I have seen it quite a few times by now and can analyze the feedburner data with some online tools available.
@Daniel : Thanks, I am fine with the June29th start date. It ensures it ensures a fair competition.
@Life is Colourful : Thanks for the nice stat summary.
Any idea about the reason behind this RSS count sneeze? I have been blogging for almost an year and have not experienced such big fall-jum back till date.
Thanks,
Krishna
@Tom and Life is Colorful, yes I will consider the 29 of June as starting point for those bloggers that presented the dip.
Life is colourful – Something is a bit weird about 3 of the tops 8’s stats. They seemed to have a massive and I mean massive, dip in feed subscribers on the day of the start of blogging idol and then they were back to normal the next day :S
I think to be fair all our starts should start from the day earlier or later to accomodate for this…
Thank you so much Lifeiscolourful! 🙂
Well, I have done a quick analysis for you all guys. Statistics is my favorite subject and dailyblogtips is my favorite blog. So I would keep on updating you about the contest toppers:
Top 8 Competitors:
Blog | Increase | (%age) | [with stats of 29June, 30June, 1July, 2July, 3July]
(1) gauravonomics – 64 -> 216 = 152 (237.5%) [207, 64, 205, 218, 216]
(2) techtreak – 134 -> 221 = 87 (64.9%) [196, 134, 223, 221, 221]
(3) economicshelp – 82 -> 158 = 76 (92.7%) [141, 82, 155, 156, 158]
(4) romeuy – 759 -> 835 = 76 (10%) [46, 759, 797, 816, 835] – Before 46, it was 713 – looks like feedburner sneeze.
(5) dsplog – 41 -> 98 = 57 (139%) [84, 41, 98, 93, 98]
(6) stockmarketindia – 953 -> 1002 = 49 (5.1%) [944, 953, 956, 979, 1002]
(7) dev102 – 394 -> 434 = 40 (10.1%) [329, 394, 415, 437, 434]
(8) umarsiddiqi – 69 -> 105 = 36 (52.2%) [79, 69, 88, 91, 105]
First three blogs and dsplog did not impress me much because of the deep on 30th June [It might be because of feedburner sneeze, in that case there initial count shall be considered from 29th June].
Romeuy, stockmarketindia, dev102 and umarsiddiqi are in linear progress without hiccups.
Guys, I might miss some of the high flying blogs so help me update the list with any missing blogs. I had missed to add dsplog in the list a while back.
All the best to all participants!
@Krhishna, yeah I think I will make the initial count for those blogs as per 29 of June.
@Stock Market Informer, ok you are in charge now of watching the tactics being used now 🙂 .
@Anders, that is correct.
@Daniel
I need a clarification on the weekly email. You mean what tactics we used the week that has passed and not the coming week, right? 🙂
@ ChiQ, this is a good idea, and Daniel – I don’t mind volunteering for being in group of watchdogs. I already shared couple of concerns with you.
Just so you know, #43 and #56 are the same blog …!
@Daniel .. you should ask for blogger volunteers to be watchdogs for this competition.. they could discuss things they have observed privately with you.
Or maybe you are doing it.. you know watching us out (a loooooot of worrrk)
sure we know the rules.. but it would help if the ones crossing the line will be determined right away.. just to keep it fair.
Good luck everybody.
I’m number 47 by the way.