Just in the last day or two working on my blogs, (www.joelbrown.id.au and www.nofixedoffice.com) i realized, that they have been operating a little while now, 15months and 8 months respectively. While in this time i believe that i have probably exceeded some of my expectations, there are also many that i have not reached.
As it currently stands, i have a collective 212 posts between the two blogs, made up of a range of posts, from short quick tips, right through to some quite expressive posts, that i share my thoughts and ideas on different topics. While i this is a milestone for me, considering that i never thought writing would be something i would do let alone be able to accomplish this sort of scale. Even though for me this is an achievement it is quiet low on the overall scale, in comparison to what some other bloggers have created.
Another area that i have really worked on and just started to learn on the tip of the iceberg is traffic. The actual traffic to the blogs is still relatively low. However the more that i work with my blogs and methods for gaining traffic the more i realize that it is not something you can force. You can create potentially better reasons for people to visit but at the end of the day, people will often only visit if you create something that they want to read.
As part of my learning about traffic, i ran across the concept of social media, while i had been using social media, in a personal respect for some times, eg Facebook and Myspace, it was not really to drive traffic to anything, it was to connect with friends, and that was about it. So i found you can share more than your life, this helped a little. Then i found myself seeing Twitter, like short messaging for the internet. So i took a look it seems that it has been one of my more successful steps, in building additional traffic.
Overall though when i stopped and thought about it, i have close to 8,000 twitter followers, a currently unknown number of readers on the two blogs, and when it all comes down to it, i am still a small guy in the blogging world. It is something that i am planning to work on and grow, however i want to do it the right way. Which may or may not end up how i expect, and may or may not see some direction changes as my blogging already has. But i know for one thing, i am not looking to give it up any time soon. Post frequency may vary and content may vary, but i will keep at it.