Happy Blogiversary To Me!
June 30, 2010
It was 1 year ago today that I started The View From Out Here!
It has been a pretty quick year, full of ups and downs in real life as well as with trying to stay committed to blogging. Overall it’s been a pretty good year though. I figured I’d try to go through some of the highlights from my blog from the first year.
Here we go:
- Total views: 44,000 +
- Total comments: 92
- 383 if we’re counting Spam
- Surprisingly, very few of these comments are from me…….the real ones, not the spam ones…….although those aren’t from me either!
- Total posts: 85 (I’m impressed that it made it that high with all the lulls in my posting frequency)
- At least 1,500 views every month!
- At least 100 views every day for the past 2 months!
- Busiest day: July 27th with 3,300 + views!
- Top viewed post with over 30,000 views : Buy a truck, get a free AK47
- Go figure, it’s also the top commented post as well
- My favourite post: Mass Flooding in Hamilton, ON
- This is the closest I’ve ever come to breaking a news story. I was driving on the Red Hill Expressway when it flooded and I had the whole scoop, complete with photos. Which I posted as soon as I got off the road. It was so cool to get like 3000 views in like 9 hours when the most I’d had in a day before that was about 10 since it was in my first month of blogging.
- More than 1 person subscribed, so a hearty thank you to you all!
- Number of people I helped with web development (that I’m aware of): 4
- Most of my top search terms are either to do with AK47 or Flooding but, I have a surprising number of searches for “cat deer”, “bird and fox”, as well as xkcd
- The number one thing clicked on in this blog is………the Hamilton SPCA link (the one with the cat & dog in the sidebar). Apparently people like it, which I’m glad for. I wish I knew if anyone ever adopted an animal after coming from here…
- Number of themes I’ve used………..1! Shocking I know.
Okay, so year 1 went well. I hope that the second year comes just as easily as the first did, I’ve enjoyed it all. Thanks to everyone who reads, please, feel free to comment as well!! Have a wonderful and uplifting day everyone!
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Amazing Job, my lad!
And you can add my thanks for helping Carmen Lezeth Suarez get her Web stuff figured out.
Happy Blogiversary Indeed!
Roger
Thank you very much!
It was my pleasure to help Carmen out, she was my first subscriber so it was the least I could do for her, lol. Seriously though, she’s a lovely girl and I was happy to help her with everything.
Thanks for stopping by Roger!
Happy Happy Bri-Bri! WOOHOO!
And yes, thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you so very much for helping me with my website! I adore everything you did for me (and I love that Roger does too! He’s so very cool!).
…and do you know how much I love that I was the first? ( Hee! Hee!). I know you’re big on stats and stuff, so I wish you much more great success in the year to follow.
Looking forward to reading (and learning) so much more!
Hugs, love and all that good stuff!
Carmen!
Let’s not go through this thank you, you’re welcome thing again Carmen, lol! I believe we’ve covered all of that already. And yes, you were the first, lol, I thought you would like that.
Thanks Carmen, much success to you as well! And there WILL be a test at the end, so I hope you are retaining all this info that you’re learning here!
Wonderful site and theme, would really like to see a bit more content though!
Great post all around, added your XML feed! Love this theme, too!