My blogchallenge, a weekly update 5
Here we are again, another week has passed and what an eventful week it has been. I’ve set my three goals for the oncoming months, I’ve set my life goal and my reason for wanting to achieve it and I’ve entered the Project Mojave to make this life goal (which is a dream) become reality. Although we must not forget that goals are not the things we should be trying to reach, we should be enjoying the route that takes us there. Also, keep in mind what you want to do after you reach your goal. Many people who worked all their lives and saved up for retirement now sit at home, depressed, because they had no goal, no life plan, no idea what to do when the time came for them to start enjoying themselves.
Let’s have a look at this weeks numbers shall we?
Average number of pageviews over this week:118, a slight increase.
Interesting to me is the growth this blog has experienced in three months. If we look at the number of pageviews a month it get’s interesting. Remember, my first blog entry here was on March 13th.
- March: 145
- April: 1637
- May: 2240 (And we still have a week left! I’l probably get 400-500 more views)
Number of subscribers to my RSS feed: This has been fluctuating quite a bit. Google reader is still being a total git when it comes to displaying my feed. The number of subscribers maxed out at 40, but is now back at 32.
Where the traffic is coming from:I had another “powertweet” this week. Someone promised me a guestpost but things fell through as my post wasn’t exactly what they hoped. (Multi-author blog) So I could post it on my own blog instead and they would tweet it for me. It has resulted in some nice traffic coming this way although I doubt I’ve made them stick. If you must know, it was the blogpost about using twitter to climb mountains. Another small contribution in traffic has been made by the forum over at Project Mojave. Traffic sources are becoming more and more varied.
What I have done this week to get my blog bigger and what I learned: I’ve learned that you can make friends in the strangest ways, as I wrote yesterday I’m now participating in Project Mojave and all the knowledge I’m getting there will certainly help me grow this blog further. As you might have noticed my blogposts are getting longer almost every day. I started out with blogpost containing no more than 400 words. My post on hormones this week was over 2000 and I felt comfortable with it. I can really tell my writing skills are getting better. Not only that but I’m making fewer typo’s and grammatical errors as well.
I’ve also learned that google reader can be a real pain.
I did a new setup on the feed and found the problem, faulty HTML coding… Things are back to normal now.
Nice progress. It shows that you can move forward even when your destination is not fully set and that obstacles (or disappointments) may actually be opportunities.