The year in review and what has worked and what has not.

For a blog that is only three months old I suppose I have not done to badly. My unique visitor count is closing on 3000 - that equates to about 1000 per month or 250 per week. I know some blogs count those numbers by the day, not month, but my traffic is steadily growing. Like most new bloggers I am impatient to see them grow more.

What isn't working. BlogRush for starters. Steadily going downhill. Adsense. I am glad I am not relying on adsense for income. RSS and comments are not receiving much attention. Content. I don't seem to be able to strike the right content as yet.

What is working. BlogCatalog and MyBlogLog are good communities are definitely bring in some traffic - probably the majority. Pay for post has been a nice little income earner from a variety of sources, mind you I still wouldn't be relying that for income. The downloads have been popular judging from web stats. My traffic is growing and in the three months my Alexa has gone from well over 3 million to around the 370000 and seems to fall a little every week. the Rubicon ads are interesting and earn more in a week than adsense does in a month so I will stick with that a little longer.

For 2008. My aim by this time next year is to have at least 500 visitors every day - not uniques but regular visitors. I am also planning at some stage to move from Drupal to Wordpress. The Drupal platform is okay to use but most of the themes are a little buggy and very easy to spam. Content wise, I will continue to test out various styles and subjects until I can get the balance right. I will also be expanding the download section to incorporate more family orientated materials.

From my visitors I would like to see more feedback. What they like, what they don't like. Which articles interest them and which articles they find inappropriate so if you have any ideas or want to make a comment = please do.

To all my readers this year - thanks for your time - I wish you all a very happy new year and the very best for 2008.