I was supposed to write this yesterday but I didn’t even realize it was August haha… time sure does fly! JonLee.ca is now half a year old (give or take). In that time I feel I have accomplished quite a bit. However, I seem to have fallen short in my goals from last month.
Goals for July 2007
- Increase Alexa ranking into top 50,000
I came close! I peaked at around 51,500 but have dropped to 51,679. Just a slight decline but this could be where I begin leveling off unless I pull in some decent traffic next month! - Increase RSS readership above 275
At 264, I am about a dozen readers short of this goal. Thanks to everyone that has subscribed so far! It’s really encouraging to know there’s a good handful of people out there reading my blog! - Increase Technorati ranking into the top 2,500
Finally a goal I did accomplish. I am now ranked as the 2,323rd most popular blog on the Internet! - Maintain a post a day! (I’ll get it… one of these months…)
31 posts in 31 days — mission accomplished! I know there are blogs out there that make 2 or 3 posts a day. But I’m just one person and I heavily believe in quality over quantity. A post a day is already plenty of work for me! - Finish a huge project that I’m sure you will all love and will hopefully make me rich!
Unfortunately, there have been a lot of obstacles with this project — mostly time constraints. Also, I switched implementation platform a few times from Zend PHP Framework to Ruby on Rails to plain PHP/MySQL. I think I might just end up turning it into a Facebook Application! Stay tuned!
Also, my blog is getting well over a thousand unique visitors a day which I am quite happy with! Monetary wise, it hasn’t generated much income this month (under $20) but that was never the primary purpose of my blog anyway.
Goals for Next Month
- Increase Alexa ranking into top 47,500
Not a huge increase from the current ranking but man competition is fierce! - Increase RSS readership above 300
With some added exposure from my Slim Mouse contest, I don’t think this should be too difficult. - Increase Technorati ranking into the top 2,000
Here I can find out if Technorati has a “Top 2k” icon. I’m currently holding a “Top 5k”. - Maintain a post a day
- Hold another giveaway contest
Since my current contest seems to be so popular, why not have another one to award my readers! - Launch something!
I have my doubts as to whether my current project can be finished by next month but I do have something else on the backburner that shouldn’t take too long to launch! Hint: It’s not a website! - Win another Contest
Since winning John Chow’s 2P Slim Mouse, I have been feeling quite lucky and have entered a whole bunch of contests, hopefully I’ll win something!
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