So at the start of last year WordPress sent me an email to tell me how I hadn’t been blogging. At the end of 2010 I had about 5000 hits on this site and decided I wanted to do something about that. So I made a conscious effort to blog more and got average daily hit count up from 14 in 2010 to 40 in 2011 (currently at 47 in 2012). By the end of 2011 I’d moved from 5,000 hits to almost 20,000. Here’s the graph showing the growth in traffic coinciding with me being more active…
Wordpress Stats
Now I think that’s quite impressive for someone who blogs on occasion on random stuff, but I think it’s even more so since the blogging virtually ended around April time. It was then my second kid arrived and until recently there was very little spare time. Babies take up an unbelievable amount of time!
But now WordPress have sent me an email again with my stats and I want to see if I can do better, both on hit counts and regular posting. I’m hoping I can at least achieve the same number of hits and do better, so I’m aiming for 50,000 hits by the end of this year. I’d be pleased if I could achieve that.
So my plan for 2012 is to get blogging again, and post more than last year. I posted 19 items last year and my posts on the Amazon Kindle and online storage proved most popular, but I’ll aim for more this year. I’ve got a few ideas lined up, hopefully a detailed one online photo albums will be out soon, followed by another look at online storage options.
And I’m still considering moving to Google for my blogging, only because it’s possible to get ad revenue. For a blogging platform Google can’t compete, but I think that’s the case in many things they do these days as they no longer know their core business and have their fingers in too many pies. This ends with Google doing lots of things, some well (email & calendar), some not so well (Wave, Buzz). I’m not a big G+ either, but I’m not into Facebook either so can’t really comment. So I’ll stick with WordPress for a while longer and see if I can myself enrolled in WordAds.
