200th post and 500,000 visitors
Look at that, I’ve been blogging for almost a year and I’ve made it to my 200th post on this blog. Now overall I’m around 700 posts for all of the blogs in my network, but I think it’s and interesting milestone to hit, any century multiple on a blog is reason for announcement. Plus I thought I would update you all on my progress.
Blogging
For those of you that don’t know, I started blogging last November, November 12th to be exact with the hope of creating a blog, a site, or a network of sites that received over 500,000 visitors a month. Well, I can honestly say that I’m way, way off from that.
However, the process of trying to get there over the last year has allowed me to learn so much that if I didn’t have that goal of 500,000 visitors I probably wouldn’t have learned nearly as much. I more than likely would have become one of the millions of bloggers that try it out and then drift away after about three months. If you look through many bloggers blog rolls you’ll find these blogs, especially if a blogger hasn’t cleaned up his/her blog roll lately.
But I’ve stuck with it and I’ve actually expanded from just this one blog into a whole network of blogs called Blogtown Press Blog Network. The network launch is coming along, however I feel as though it would have been a little more successful had I practiced what I recently preached over at Blogging on Empty about building content before a launch, but I’m a “do then learn” type. I’m still working on promoting and hopefully my
Forum Building
I’m working on a much needed forum (I have one called the Rants Forum over at Sprint Rants). I want to wait on the launch of that forum but hope that it is not only successful but also helps a lot of people out. I’ll be looking for some “beta testers” soon so let me know if you’re interested.
I’m also busy on some super top secret stuff that I can’t mention at the moment.
Thanks to everyone who has kept me motivated and kept me going at this blogging thing. I never thought I would actually have started a blog let alone 13 of them and continued blogging for over a year.