Looking back, setting targets and moving on
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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.
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
Mani thats great to hear the complete stats of this blog and your personal achievements. Good luck for the year ahead!
Your stats look awesome. Where does most of your traffic come from?
Most of my traffic is organic. Almost 70% to be precise, rest is social media. Region wise – US > UK > India > China
Thanks for sharing this. It is interesting to see and well deserved. Considering the high volume of posts you do the standard is very high IMO.
Good luck in 2009.
looking forward to an update next year to hear if you made your targets
Congrats and thanks for sharing the stats, looks impressive! I can see a peak in somewhere around Nov 2007 and a high peak in somewhere around Dec 2007, any specifics that made the peak to give you a head start?
When I read this post, i remembered what adheeth told me….. Lagay raho.
lol perfect !
Its great!!! thanks for sharing..but i have one question,how does the traffic come from?
thanks,
seo philippines
As I said most of it is organic, and around 30% from the social media.
You have gone a long way Mani. Your blog is growing healthily day by day. All the best in 2009 and may you achieve all your goals.
Cheers
Wei Liang
You’re already making a good amount of revenue, I hope you succeed in all other goals you set.
I’ve posted my goals online as well at my blog http://www.improvingtheweb.com
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