Looking back, setting targets and moving on

It’s the end of the year. The right time to look back, analyze and figure out how well you are doing, what’s happened and how can you improve.

How old are you now?

Technically, DSB started almost an year and a half back, on July 13, 2007. (It was on blogspot earlier.) And So it’s 18 months old now.

Webarchive for DailySEOblog

How has the traffic been, 18 months?

  
As any other blog, DSB started off at Page Rank 0, and a daily traffic of three visits. (One from my office, one from home and the other a mystery man!) . Today it has around 1200 –2000 unique visits per day, a monthly minimum of 40K visits, and an RSS subscriber base of 1969 (as of today). Alexa traffic rank is at 57,604 as of today.

Blog Statistics

Number of posts published – 516
Number of comments – 3,595
Number of pages indexed on Google  – 797
Number of incoming links on Google – 89
Number of incoming links on Yahoo – 3,438

Average number of daily posts – Almost 1 per day (0.95)
Average number of comments per post – 7

Social Media Statistics

Twitter followers – 545
Digg – Dugg 3956, Submitted – 238, Made popular 0, Friends 211, Fans 168
Stumble Upon – 4,274 pages, 405 videos, 375 photos • 263 subscribers • Received 20 reviews
(I’m not active on others as these)

Revenue from SEO Projects

Total Revenue – USD 35,000
Average per month – USD 2916
Number of SEO projects completed – 6

Social Meetups and Conferences attended

Search Camp Chennai
Kerala Blogcamp
Bangalore Barcamp
Mumbai Barcamp

Targets for 2009

1 -  Increase subscriber base to 10,000
2 -  Increase average daily post count to 2, increase unique hits at least by double
3 -  Get more involved with other projects
4 -  Get more involved with Social Media
5 -  Guest blog at more sites
6 -  Cut down my SEO rates and do more projects
7 -  Release more Wordpress Themes
8 -  Sell off some projects that are inactive
9 – Set up a mailing list at DSB
10 – Release an E Book

Inspiration to write this post – Daniel’s group writing project

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