Watermark 10th Highest-Rated Poetry Blog?

I just don't see how this is possible:

Since I've been blogging again, I took a look at my stats, and discovered several visitors from this site (images are linked.) How can this be? 

Watermark was neglected for a long time. I recieve fewer than 200 visitors a day, and most of those are looking for Friday Cat Blogging posts.

I rarely get comments, I suspect because I rarely comment myself. This is partly by choice, and partly not. That my energy is so limited is not by choice; that I spend what energy I have on writing poems and making collages rather than commenting on the work of others is by choice. 

(Though I would really love to get more comments.)

So how can Watermark be #10? 

I'm guessing that this site doesn't index a good number of us: if you have a poetry blog, get over there and add yours. Push Watermark down a bit. 

There is some reason for optimism in these numbers:

Clearly, there is an audience for poetry; it's just a bit limited in what sites it goes to. The big shots, Poets.org and Poem of the Day get most of the action. Which is fine, but where's trickle down when you need it?

Where is Poetry Daily? Where is Via Negativa? 

So, it's somewhat gratifying to see my own blog ranked so high, but it certainly would be more so if I could believe it, if I got lots of hits on my poems, if readers left comments, if the other blogs I read were on this list, and if I thought we blogging poets had more of an audience than each other.

 

 

Comments

[Catherine]

Well, it won't rank my blog without a feedburner URL, and I have no idea what that is!
Also, even though you have a list "top poetry blogs" I couldn't find a way to choose poetry as a blog category - the nearest I could get was Arts & Literature/Writing.
It doesn't seem as if you can submit other favourite blogs either, it has to be submitted by the blog owner.

[sbpoet]

Catherine,

I went in to add Abide (my other blog) just to see how this works.

When you choose a category, like Arts & Literature, a drop-down box appears; that's where you would choose Poetry.

The "feedburner URL" is the RSS feed for your blog. I think that will work fine. That's the "Suscribe to my blog" URL. I don't see it activated on your blog, but basic Blogger instructions should tell you how to do it (and you should.)

[Catherine]

I'll check out blogger. I've never used "subscribe to my blog" because I just put the ordinary URL into Google Reader and it seems to work fine.
In the drop down box for Arts & Literature, I didn't see any category for Poetry - only writing.

[John Walton]

Hi! I wondered if you would consider having a link to my Blog as I am desperately trying to build up a following. My poems are well received on Google+ but blog activity is rather slow. Thank you.
mylifemywordsmypoetry.blogspot.com