Music Tech Talk

Let the Contest begin.  For a while, I published my blog to as many as 15 different hosts to see which one’s I liked best.   Currently, I have narrowed it down to only 3 hosts to do a stats comparison:  Self-Hosted Word press, Wordpress.com and Posterous.  There are pluses and minuses to each platform, but stat-wise, there is a clear winner…  But before we get to that a few things:

First, the SH and Posterous accounts are tracked in Google Analytics.   Apparently, you can’t do that in the Wordpress.com account yet, so I’m stuck with the built-in version.  Second, an xml sitemap has been submitted for the Self-hosted WP account.  Third, I have excluded my own IP from the Analytics accounts and try not to visit the WP.com account unless logged-in.

I will track the stats for 30 days starting on the 6^th of January.  However, clearly Posterous is easily the current winner with approximately with the SH and WP.com accounts at a mere 9 & 12% of the hits generated by Posterous.  Now, I don’t know how all of this works exactly, but it is clear that Posterous is doing something different when it comes to submitting your posts to the search engines in general.  If anyone out there has any insight into this, I would love to hear about it.