It’s Saturday again, tempus fugit… Just think with me a bit here, this is my 15th weekly update and I didn’t even post an update every weekend. I’ve been blogging since March 13th, it sure feels like yesterday and I stil very much feel like a total noob/beginner/greenhorn or whatever other names you have for someone starting out. These weekly updates are the only form of “proof” I have that I’m not a total novice anymore. Although this blog is small, it’s not tiny anymore. I was looking at the pageviews today and realized that I didn’t do anything to promote my blog today and still I got over 200 views today. I must confess I’ve been busy this week and so the number of posts was low again. However, in my last blogchallenge I mentioned a new source of inspiration. In the end, two of you found the right answer and so get to tell me a subject I’m to blog about. The contest was for the first three, so if you have a subject you want me to blog about and get a linkback and eternal fame and glory to your blog, check out last weeks update and answer the question.
It’s on to the numbers now
Average number of pageviews over this week: 168, slightly lower than last week’s number, I blame the lack of posts this week.
Number of subscribers to my RSS feed: 73, brilliant!
Where the traffic is coming from: Seeing as I haven’t promoted my blogposts through su.pr or other channels traffic is very diverse. Most of the traffic somehow seems to go directly to my blog nowadays and the biggest help is a Google. Nice SEO traffic so it seems.
What I have done this week to get my blog bigger and what I learned: Just as last week I’ve hardly invested any time in promoting my blog but the visitor numbers are still the same. If I spend some more time promoting I’m sure things will go up again.
I’ve learned that some of you really do care how things are going here and participate almost daily. I’m getting more and more mails, requests, tweets and comments (okay, maybe not this week) than ever before. It’s so much fun I can hardly believe I did this. I’m just writing what I think and you’re reading it, en mass. Sorry If I seem a bit monotonous in this but every week is a new surprise for me and every week again I sit here typing with a huge smile on my face because of all this blog.
Remember the numbers on the monthly visits? I’ll give them once more, now with July added. I’m shocked….
- March: 145
- April: 1637
- May: 2904
- June: 3598
- July: 5053
That’s 163 views a day, every single day and a huge jump at the same time.
Okay, it’s not the 500 I was planning for by far, yet. But we’ll get there in due time.
I’ve been thinking about productivity lately and how I’m slowly getting swamped with everything I have planned, promised and things I just have or want to do. The simplest solutions are often best and I’ll be shopping for an elegant whiteboard large enough to keep track of all the important things, a giant to do list as it were and a place to store quick notes. *flash insight* I have a big mirror in my room, I don’t need a whiteboard, a whiteboard marker will do just fine. The simpler solution is better indeed. Combined with a proper calender (Google) I think I’ll get back on top of it all in no time. Thank you for your patience.
Pretty impressive.