On Dorm Earning, I have found that if I remove the counter, I begin to see an increase in the number of daily readers of my blog via the RSS feed. For a blog that only three days ago had no readers, when I took the counter off and added just a button for them to click, it began to go up rather fast. And that is with no marketing really other than a few blog comments. It brought me to a conclusion that I intend on studying farther with my two blogs: Dorm Earning and Zero to Med.
My hypothesis is: There is no difference between when I use a counter and when I use a normal button. Now, that is called a null hypothesis. What I am trying to do is prove that statement wrong. If I find that there is a difference, the hypothesis will not be supported and thus, I will be one step closer to successfully determining what gauges RSS readership. So many people think that a hypothesis is an ‘if, than’ statement, but null are really the ones scientists use.
The point is this…I have really been hoping for an increase in RSS and if this experiment works, I will finally be there. I want to be at 100 by the end of October for Dorm Earning and I really think that I can get there. If anyone here likes the blog, feel free to subscribe by going to the blog. If you don’t, that’s okay. But, I am really excited about the growth and I expect some great things in the future. Stay tuned for results on this experiment. Thanks.
