May 18 2009
Blog Anniversary ONE Year
Writing and Publishing a blog has become so commonplace that we hardly notice when new ones arrive on the scene and others seem to simply “disappear.”
There are, by some estimates, over 100 million blogs worldwide. That means NONE of us will ever see even one percent of all the blogs. We could surf the internet all day every day and barely make a dent. That’s overwhelming when we think about it.
I have to acknowledge that this blog, Gruggers Way, Retired and Restless, has been in existence for one year as of May 19, 2009. During that time I have posted 335 articles. There have been a lot of visitors, although only 63 the first month, 274 the second month and 588 the third month. Then….EntreCard!! August: 3,558 unique visits and 5,525 page views!
Traffic kept growing with unique visits and page views that reached what I considered to be very successful for a one-person operation. I have to credit EntreCard visitors and Google Images with building the following numbers:
MONTH/YR VISITORS / PAGE VIEWS
SEPT 2008 - - 8,048 / 14,153
OCT 2008 - - 11,455 / 25,298
NOV 2008 - - 10,787 / 32,014
DEC 2008 - - 10,543 / 25,202
JAN 2009 - - 12,361 / 24,337
FEB 2009 - - 18,860 / 34,044
MAR 2009 - - 27,751 / 51,283 (Highest monthly counts)
Then…EntreCard visits no longer count….EntreCard widget removed from site.
APR 2009 - - 14,754 / 30,015
MAY 2009 - - 2,973 / 8,155 (May 1 to May 18 at this hour)
Although I have been working hard to keep visitor interest high, the absence of Entrecard traffic is obvious.
What the future holds for Grugger’s Way is yet to be determined. This blog has outlasted thousands of others. I have kept it fairly active, although I am not able to post every day, and summer will bring competing interests.
I hope that I will be able to observe a second anniversary and post another progress report. I sincerely thank each and every blogger and blog reader who has visited this site. I thank all the “Blog-Loggers,” “Catalogers” and “Stumblers” who have helped promote Grugger’s Way during the past year.
I thank you, the reader, for your comments.
Congratulations hope to be able to see those numbers on my blog someday. I’m new to the site and at this blogging thing. Love writing and love reading. I’ve taken a look around the “block” and have found some interesting stuff. But you are right, no one could even begin to imagine the numbers of bloggers out there. I for one will try and keep things interesting, like it seems you have, and hope that my ideas and thoughts will be read and even commented on. Here’s to another year of writing and Xpressing!
Congratulations! Love your blog,and must have discovered it not long after you started. I particularly like the fact that you post regularly,as it becomes more like a conversation,an invitation into your life.Keep plugging along,Gruggers
Happy bloggiversary!!!
:)