Are you analytical? by Brendan Conboy

Are you analytical? Do you want to know why some things work and why others don’t? Do you analyse your KDP keywords, description and categories? In January, many people analyse and take stock of things, such as career choice, where you live, weight, how many books you read last year, how many you will read this year, etc.

I have spent the last six months populating, growing and analysing my YouTube channel, and every day I learn more about analytics and algorithms. This led me to look at the analytics for blogger.com and More Than Writers, in particular, the 42 monthly blogs that I have contributed. There aren’t any in-built tools as such, although there is some data for views and comments that can be extracted.

I love spreadsheets, so why not use one for this purpose? The ratio of views to comments is interesting. I have received a total of 19,036 views and 357 comments. When you consider that half of those comments are me responding to people, the number is significantly low.

Looking at my averages, my blogs have each received 453 views and 4 comments from readers. That’s less than 1% of comments/reader.

My most popular blog was one called ‘What Is Poetry?’ which received 1,139 views and 8 reader comments. Find it here.

As a predominantly visual learner, I love a good graph – Every picture tells a story.

Lately, my blogs have attracted a declining interest. Has anyone else noticed this? I’d be interested to see your graphs.

Brendan Conboy aka Half Man Half Poet, is the author of 16 published books, including two fascinating autobiographies, The Golden Thread and I'm Still VALUED.  In 1986, Brendan invited Jesus into his life, and God blessed him with the gift of rhyming words.  He used that gift as a Christian Rap artist for 25 years and has written 6 poetry books, including the entire Book of Psalms in Rhyme.  He has 3 published novels - Issues, Invasion of the Mimics and Legacy of the Mimics.  He is the creator of Book Blest.