Sep 14 2007
Nerdy Nomad’s One Month Anniversary
I’m writing this post with a hellish hangover so if parts of it don’t seem coherent it’s because my head is about to explode. It can tend to cause a bit of a distraction, the old head exploding thing.
Well I’ve been blogging now for one month and I though I’d check in with a sort of progress report. I’ve hugely exceeded my expectations! Of course, not having any expectations to begin with sort of helps.
Stats
- Posts - I’ve eeked out 31 posts and I have to say that I’m pretty impressed with myself for keeping it up. I find it pretty enjoyable when the topic is something I love talking about.
- Comments - At first I felt a bit like a psycho who was talking to myself but now that I’ve got a wee group of fab readers who’ve contributed 81 comments so far, I don’t feel so crazy anymore.
- Visitors - Lately I’m getting about 30 to 40 visits per day. My best day was last weekend with 93 people wandering over for a read.
- RSS subscribers - This one can fluctuate quite a lot but at the moment it’s at 54 subscribers. I reckon this is a decent number for a month old blog but who knows.
- Technorati - My authority thing is at 20 and my rank is 324,580. I don’t know much about Technorati except that the first number needs to go up and the second needs to go down so here’s hoping that happens.
- Alexa - I think Alexa is a pile o’ poop but for the record my rank is 805,232.
Other Stuff
- Search engines - I get barely any traffic from search engines so that’s something to look forward to. I’ve had a couple of obscure searches point to me though such as “banner ads play music” and “2007 money found this site”. However I don’t think those will be keywords I’ll be targeting.
- Links - I seem to be appearing on a few people’s blogrolls which is sweet. I like how bloggers share links pretty freely. With my websites I’m very careful about who I trade links with and rarely give a link without swapping. It’s nice to throw caution to the wind and send out some link love and it’s even better to see the love coming back my way. There’s a lot of love in the room.
- Contacts - This blog has reminded me that the internet isn’t some big faceless void and making contact with so many people with similar interests has been great. Hopefully I’ll see some of you out on the road working and travelling and we can have beers, get drunk and fall down.
I’ve said it many times that blogs are crap but I’ve changed my heathen ways and am really glad to be a convert on the road to recovery. It’s been good times so far but I’m really looking forward to sharing tips and advice on working on the road. That’s when things will start to get interesting! Bring on January I say.
Just one last thing… without going too much into arse kissing mode, I just wanted to say thanks for reading and commenting, your emails, link love and sharing your ideas and all that good stuff. Arse kissing done.
Woohoo, my hangover is gone!
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I've been travelling since January 2008 living off earnings from the web. Follow me as I bum around Asia and beyond, getting up to mischief and working online as I go. 
Congrats Kirsty on the 1st month!! I look foward to reading more posts. Nothing is more annoying than finding a blog that has potential and deals with a really interesting topic, only to have the creator post something new once in a blue moon. Way to go!
hangovers suck - been there many times myself
Awesome. Great wrap up. You’re so methodical, I love it! Keep up the good work. We’ll be reading.
So do you feel this blog helps you in any way with the other sites, to get a perspective, setting goals or such?
What I would be really interested in learning about are your other online projects. What are your other sites, how did you make them, how do you work on them, how do you market them, why did you choose to do those kinds of site, what toos do you use, what useful links, what books did you read, how do you monetise them or plan to do so?
Very few earning-online blogs do this, perhaps it is just common sense not to give away too many secrets or expose ones sites to copycats.
But it would give this blog an authentic voice of authority. It would make it a cut from the zillion of make-money-online blogs by people who are perhaps only running make-money-online blogs and sites.
Looking over your shoulder as you work on your sites would be of value to many and I wonder if you would not gain more by giving away some “secrets” or things you’ve learned through experience than risk loosing. Then again, pehaps your the type who hates being looked over the shoulder.
Congratulations on the anniversary! Over 50 RSS subscribers is great for just one month of blogging.
Ooh methodical! Never been called that before.
I know what you mean Steve… it’s very frustrating to find a site/blog that is exactly what you’re looking for but hasn’t been updated in an eternity.
WJM thanks for all the writing ideas. I’ve mentioned my three main sites several times in older posts but I’ve never dedicated a post to analysing them or anything. I’ll work on some posts in the coming weeks to address some of those questions you mentioned and hopefully it’ll make for some good reading.
It took me a few months to reach 54 subscribers. Be sure to celebrate when you hit triple digits!