My Blog – One Month On

Its now been a whole month since I started my blog and I must say I’m suprised by how much I’m enjoying writing it.

Okay so a month isn’t that long I know and i’ll be the first to admit that this isn’t exactly the best blog in the world – But even I would be hard pushed to do that in just 4 weeks .

Like I said when I first started, I’ve never wrote a blog before so i wasn’t sure how it would go.
I’m liking the fact that a small handfull of people are regularly reading my posts and keep coming back when its updated so i can’t be doing that bad. Its quite encouraging really – So thanks to all those that are reading.
 
To be honest I haven’t really made much of an effort to promote my blog and I probably should have added to it more regularly as some people seem to post something every day – So maybe this month I will make an extra effort to start writing more detailed posts.

As I’m an affiliate marketer naturally I’m obsessed with statistics and I was suprised by some of the stats that are coming out of this blog and some lessons have been learn’t from these
Here’s some stats from one months blogging and starting from scratch:

1. Hits: 350 
2. Top Post: The Future of Online Poker (read 41 times)
3. Top Referer: Affiliates4u.com
4. Search Engine Traffic: 53 Unique Visitors
5. Most Searched Term: deal or no deal pkr ( 4 times )

So what do the above stats tell me…
1. Well first off its not exactly a traffic magnet – but on the other hand it hasn’t done too bad either.
2. Is a little annoying as the main topic is affiliate marketing.  ( I will get this sorted )
3. A4u Rocks!
4. Again WTF is this?

These are the obvious statistics but as I’m a stats freak had to find some more – And these ones interested me the most.

5. My Blog has 53 inbound links
6. According to Alexa my blogs traffic rank is in the TOP 7.85% of ALL Websites
7. Google Crawls my blog everyday.

So what do I make of this:

5. As far as I can remember i’ve only made 2 inbound links to this blog myself – so blog sites are great at naturally generating inbound links.
6. Theirs an awfull lot of crap on the internet LOL
7. Well its obviously mainly down to the fact its hosted by wordpress

Final Conclusion:
Its well worth adding a blog to any existing or new websites as they are not only a great way of communicating to your customers but also a very usefull tool for SEO link building and creating targeted content.

There I’ve finally convinced myself

Thanks for reading
Mike