About Readership...
Even though my site traffic is still increasing, I'm a bit concerned over a trend on this blog. One of the things that has seemed to happen, although I really can't tell for sure, is that I've been slowly replacing regular readers with Google visitors. A few years ago I could look at my SiteMeter report and see where visitors were coming from, and they were primarily coming from blogrolls. That is no longer the case, and I suspect that blogrolls are well on their way to extinction, to be replaced with a handier set of link tools similar to what Leftyblogs provides with RSS feeds and headlines.
And that's okay with me if blogrolls disappear over time, but I'm not sure what to make of not having a regular readership. It's nice to be a reference point for search engines on important and less important items, and it's always refreshing to see a post of mine referenced by Daou Report or Shakespeare's Sister or some other blog that generates a burst of interest. But shouldn't I rather want regular, daily, or at least every-other-day, readership? Is smaller and returning better than larger and sporadic?
What would you prefer on your own blog?
