If you’ve started a blog in the last few months and want to gain a better understanding of how your writing/marketing efforts have done in terms of performance, there are many ways to gauge the level of your Blog’s success.

- FeedBurner Subscribers FeedBurner also does a great job in showing click throughs back to your site and podcast downloads.

- Blog Influence – A formula which takes the following metrics into account: Google PageRank, Technorati Links, Yahoo Site Explorer Back Links, and Bloglines Subscribers

- Visitors, Return Visitors, Time Spent, and Content Viewed using your Analytics.

- Google News mentions

- Technorati Rank – Are other bloggers linking to your content?

If you are not satisfied with the level of your success, here’s a few questions to ask yourself:

- Is my blog’s content engaging enough to keep visitors coming back?

- Is the content I am producing also consistently mentioned by other bloggers? If so, am I providing a unique perspective to my readers?

- Have I participated in industry forums or left useful comments at other blogs in order to get my name out there?

- Have I written anything worthy of LinkBait

- Have I used other methods of promotion:

Social Bookmarking, RSS Feeds, Press Releases, Syndicating on other sites, Inviting Guest Bloggers, Guest Blogging elsewhere, Using Podcasts, Interviews, Polls, etc…

- How have the Search Engines reacted to my blog? Is it indexed properly?

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