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Posts from 2004 to 2017. This was a personal blog during a fairly chaotic decade in independent publishing — some of it tech commentary, some of it Australia, some of it ephemera. It’s kept here in full for anyone who arrives via an old link.
Current writing lives at SiliconANGLE.
Another Month With Win
My thanks to the team as always, without whom this wouldn’t be possible. Now lets not mention the ads though: July=northern summer= not good, but we’re getting closer to the good ad months now. If we can keep the traffic up coming into Oct/ thanksgiving/ xmas…. 🙂
Questioning Public Internet Stats
Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! So our traffic has finally gone through a growth spurt, headed primarily by a big jump in pages per visitor after installing Facebook commenting (see graph above.) But the jump isn’t reflected in any of our public stats, including Quantcast via direct tracking. Note that our internal stats are backed by […]
Inquisitr Changes
Just a short admin note for The Inquisitr: we’ve recently terminated one of our syndication deals. I won’t go into the details, however I wish the company involved future success, and although the product wasn’t working for us, I still like what this company does as a competitor to AP, so I’ll still be cheering […]
Back In The Top 10 Australian Startups
When Kim Heras moved the Top 100 Australian startups to Younoodle, we completely disappeared, not helped by the fact that we didn’t even have a Younoodle listing. New year and finally we’re back in the Top 10.
LOL: We’re Apparently a Scrapper Site
There’s been lots of lulz following my reply to Media140 a couple of weeks back, but the best came from one person who claims that The Inquisitr is a scrapper site who copies and pastes content that isn’t our own. Let me say up front that roughly 20-30% of our content (sometimes less) is most […]
Did I mention I like the New Technorati?
And not only because they’re selling more of our ads at late 🙂 Technorati Top 100: 50-75.
Quest to 100
June 22 was a blip, but Technorati has sorted it out ever since, at least we’ve been steady for over a week. Quest to 100.
Changes at The Inquisitr
The good news before we start is that hopefully the worst of the US recession is over for us ad wise on the site. We’re still not doing anywhere near the fill or CPM rates we were getting in the last quarter of last year, but through a combination of improved traffic, improvements from our […]
The last semi-regular Inquisitr numbers
This post is the last-semi regular report of The Inquisitr numbers, and not just because the post before this was the 1500th in this incarnation of duncanriley.com (there was one before.) I’m all for transparency, but likewise the figures wont be that exciting now. We roughly got to where we wanted to be (and it’s […]
Down 2
The Inquisitr dropped 2 places to 8th on the April Australian Startups list from TechNation. This may have been available in previous months, but I’ve paid more attention this month: a Hitwise rating. According to Hitwise, The Inquisitr comes in at 7028 of the most popular web sites. Compared to some of the others in […]
2nd, 6th… got to try harder
The queen of Australian blogging lists Meg updated her Top 100/ 250 Australian blog list over Easter, the first time since Australia Day. The Inquisitr came second for the 2nd time running. My old business partner Darren Rowse beat me out with Problogger. He wasn’t there last time: in Jan it was Gizmodo Australia, the […]
10 million page views
It must be milestone week. First, 5000 posts for The Inquisitr, now 10 million page views. We snuck past the 10m mark some time on March 23 US time, or morning March 24 AEDT. The funny stat: if we take a line from Oct 5 (US time) our 5th month anniversary, we’ve done 9 million […]
5000
The comment count is a little strange. Disqus 17,300 odd, and I don’t think there was 7000 in the time before Disqus and after. The 5000 came Friday US time (March 20). So 5,000 posts in 319 days at an average of 15.7 posts a day.
Some days I wish there was a way we could do more Australian news
We get a really good run on GNews with Australian stories, but I don’t know how to monetize Australian news, well to the point where we can afford a sales team to make it worth while. The bad side is that while we get good treatment on Australian stories, GNews labels The Inquisitr as “The […]
The numbers recession we’re not having
Just a short(ish) note to anyone who is following our numbers at the moment. Over the weekend (Friday US time to be precise) I upgraded to WP 2.7.1 and we started having problems with our stats. At first, I thought that OMG our unique visitor count was crashing. Indeed, if you look at the data, […]
Inquisitr February 2009: and still the ad market bleeds
Pageviews: 2,315,920 (new monthly record) Traffic profile: largest post at 15.2% of views (and a bloody lot of comments). Finances: the ad market is still bleeding. Our overall monthly return was down 2.1% from January despite a 27% jump in traffic. By my calculations, we are off 23% on what we should have achieved in […]
Win
Meg updated her Top 100 Australian blogs, the best and fairest top Australian blog list (we can’t even get added to some of the others, go figure) Australia Day. Here’s the result Win. It doesn’t pay the bills I might add, but to be up there after just short of 9 months with the Allure […]
Inquisitr December 2008
Pageviews: 1,962,105 (per Google Analytics) Traffic profile: highest post accounted for 13.5% of traffic. Finances: profitable (that is, more income than the cost of paying writers excluding me). However unbeknown to us, the ad figures we were working with were make believe from one provider. We’re profitable, but not by as much as we’d believed. […]
The Inquisitr November
Pageviews: 1,085,598 (per Google Analytics) Traffic profile: highest post accounted for only 5.8% of traffic. Top 5 posts accounted for less than 20% of traffic. Finances: profitable (that is, more income than the cost of paying writers excluding me) Cash Flow: same as last month, tight. Net 60 on ads, so we won’t be making […]
Syndication Offer
The Huffington Post has an interesting way of syndicating some content. The short version is they run the first three or four paragraphs of a post on their site, then end it with “read more here xyz.” I’m not sure if it’s under legal agreement or not, and as a rule I don’t like running […]