Now that the dust has settled, we asked Greg & Ardell for some feedback. Here’s what they said.
Regarding Traffic to their blogs:
Greg said is was a very big day, but blogtopsites seems to have missed it all. He had DOUBLE the unique visitors and FIVE TIMES the page views. And that was strictly blog related. His main web site was up substantially as well. Greg said the traffic remained strong the day after.
Ardell said her unique visitors were up 6% and her page views were up 13%. She said the stat tracking system at RT is not reliable on many things. She said she had 110 referrals from Jon at Property Monger.
Regarding the physical and mental effects:
Ardell said her hands were getting paralyzed, her vision was blurred and her mind was having trouble focusing. She literally forgot how to “add an entry” during that last 10 posts somewhere. As you know, Ardell (like Greg) did not deviate from her normal style of blogging. This meant she had to find & upload images on every post. Besides slowing her down, it involved more thought process (especially the images for Jon. Jon’s girlfriend probably thought he could do without them :).
(She liked the Rocky clip Rudy posted to pump her up down the stretch, but she did not see it until afterward.)
As for after effects, none were apparent. She was back in the blogging saddle, posting & commenting like a true blogoholic. [a definition of blogoholic here]
As for the bionic hound, Greg said it was not really hard at all. When he was younger he said he would work like that for days at a stretch. He once went 5 days without sleep. He is soon planning to walk across the Sahara with only a Gatorade.
Greg attributes his speed to a strict game plan. It was:
RE/Ask the Broker
Blog review
AZRepublic column
How-To
Web promo
Repeated 20 times.
At my best pace, I was averaging nine minutes a post. You can see me doing that through the drive-time hours and mid-morning. If I could shave it back to five minutes each, I could pound out 250 in 24 hours and still have time to eat, go to the batroom, etc. If the bar is set at creditable posts — meaning an original contribution by the weblogger, not just a one-liner linking post — that’s probably the theoretical maximum.
I am interested in setting a record that cannot be broken…
Seems about right. It’s not the same as typing but do you think any voice to text system could do better?
This is awesome. We will throw a vote, and possibly enter the Sellsius Annual Blog (Carpal Tunnel) Challange!
> Seems about right. It’s not the same as typing but do you think any voice to text system could do better?
I was thinking that I could probably build a bot that could do all the posting/categories/tagging housekeeping, which was a big chunk of overhead. Also, if I had maybe 300 tabs of content queued up in 30 or so browser pages, that would help, too. No pre-writing, but lots of leverage and preparation.
A few notes on stats.
1)I average 11,000 page views in a month’s time going back to day one, so likely more in the last month than the first month by far. In the two days or so of the Blogathon I had 9,346, so almost a month’s worth in two days.
As to the still in BETA stat counter, it says 110 referrals from Jon’s blog, which is probably correct. But none showing at all from Sellsius can’t possibly be correct.
For some reason it picks up one and not the other.