Erik’s Blog: Board Shorts and Business Suits

Today is the official day which I have been blogging for two months. This blog has slowly evolved and is taking shape into a place where I am posting my progress on various goals I have set for myself. In the process I have received several comments as well as emails from people telling me I have helped them out in one way or another. I use these comments as motivation to keep on moving forward and build more concrete methods to accomplish whatever it is I or anyone wanting to has set out to accomplish.

Take for instance my goal of increasing traffic to 500,000 visitors a month. Last week I had 318 Unique Visits with 179 of those coming from search engines. I also am claiming 831 page views. I am unsure how well my stat counter is working but I feel as though it’s getting the bulk of visitors. I switched mid way through December so January will be my first full month with the same stats. I also began using FeedBurner as my RSS client and can now track my those that subscribe to my RSS feed. As of today my feed circulation is 7 people. This is no where near Yaro’s 1,000 in 6 months or TechCrunches 21,000, but it’s a start.

I have also redone my goals list to better reflect my intermediate goals and allow my readers to easily navigate my goals. My front page has evolved to a color scheme that I feel is gentle on the eyes and looks professional enough to keep visitors who visit via search engines. My hope is that over the next few weeks and can round off some of the sharp edges and make a more bubble feel. It shouldn’t be too difficult and I’ll be sure to post some help on the topic within my easy html lessons.

Athletically my goals have been up and down and I believe I need to refocus some of my energies away from this computer and more towards my goals. With that said my plan is slow down on monetizing and work on building content. I mention this in several posts but now have to practice what I preach. This way I can spend more time working on my backhand and less time checking my monetization results.

It’s a new year and I plan to follow through with my goals like never before. I have reached a few bumps in the road here and there which I will no doubt post about in order to help others avoid similar mistakes but I have learned from each and every one. I plan on shooting for the stars again this year and you can’t fail unless you try.

Hope everyone has a prosperous new year, if you want to link exchange send me and email.

Aloha,
Erik
(a new daily high with my new stat counter, 64 unique visitors)