30 days of blogging

Just to be clear, no, the title doesn’t mean that this is my first 30 days blogging. Far from it. My original blog has posts dating back all the way to October 2003. I’ve been at it a while. However, I don’t always blog on a regular basis. Sometimes you’ll get 5 in a week, sometimes 3 in a month. Sometimes it’s less frequent than that.

At the beginning of September, Jason asked if anybody was interested in joining him in his 30 day challenge. The goal was to blog at least 1 time per day for 30 straight days. I’m usually really bad at following through with these types of things, so naturally I agreed to join in. And, as of today, this marks the 30th consecutive day! I made it! What’s most amazing is that of the 8 people I knew who were in the challenge, I’m the only one that finished all 30 days! I’m not sure how it happened, but I made it and I’m really excited about it!

There are a fair amount of benefits that you receive by blogging every day. Here’s a small sample of what my experience have been:
- Google page rank went from 1 to 2
- Alexa rating dropped from 616,280 to 371,929
- #of visitors tripled from last month to this month
- # of RSS subscriptions tripled in 1 month

I’ve also realized that the more I blog, the more I enjoy the writing process. It’s nice to have a place to just sound off on whatever topics I want. But even more enjoyable is writing posts that solve problems for people. The solution to an issue in WordPress and fixing my broken Rock Band drum pedal both have received steady traffic from people searching for answers on Google.

This month has been pretty gratifying. I intend to keep the streak alive and see if I can break 50 days, then 75 and maybe even 100 days in a row. We shall see.

Here are some highlights from the month in blogging:

Most visited blog post
Fixing the WordPress login issue

Most active referrer
http://stumbleupon.com/

Most common search term to find my site
rock band foot pedal

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