Announcing My 500th Blog Post
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A blogging guru’s advice says a blogger should not post about his blog’s statistics but I did violate the rule in the past and here I am again announcing another milestone in my blogging career. This is my 500th post on this blog which i started in January 11, 2009. It came after 1,050 days so statistically, I am only 25 articles short of having one article every two days. Not bad for someone who did not have any article writing experience before.
On the way to this 500th post, my blog achieved Google PageRank 4 in April 2010 and was able to keep the rank until June 2011 when its PageRank was downgraded to PR3 which it currently holds. Google Analytics also shows that this blog has 10,000 to 15,000 page views per month that come from 3,000 to 4,000 unique visitors who average more than 3 pages per visit. Also, 75% of my daily visitors are new so they could be coming here by way of the search engines which comprise more than 50% of this blog’s traffic.
Those of you who have followed this site for a while knew that I stop using paid blog advertising that could easily gain 1,500 visits per month but would increase the bounce rate to more than 80%. I remember a co-blogger asking me about the effect of my decision to stop paid blog advertising to which I replied, “My traffic was down by about 30% but the bounce rate was reduced to below 10%. I don’t regret losing the come-and-go visitors for as long as I know that my current visitors are reading my posts.”
Hello, Ed! Congratz to your blog site achievements! This is really something that you should be proud of. I guess, posting site stats nowadays are considered normal. But, only bloggers like us are the ones, who would really appreciate those post about our hardly achieved stats. Something that most of the readers do not mind at all. Anyway, seeing our stats grow from nothing to something should be cherished! Let’s grab a glass of wine and celebrate! God bless, and keep up the good work! =)
Hi JoMi,
Thanks for the visit and the comment.
Yes, only the bloggers among my readers could appreciate a post like this so I believe that is the reason why some blogging gurus advise us to refrain from posting this kind of article. In my case, I do post something about my blog when I feel it’s something that could inspire my fellow bloggers.
Congratulations for having reached this 500th Blog milestone in your blogging career! I hope to make even 1/3 of your achievements, God willing! Keep it up and let the fire burning in all your advocacy works notwithstanding the rocky road ahead and pitfalls strewn around.
Thank you, William. It’s a bit hard to achieve longevity in blogging. It’s somewhat similar to the industry we are advocating for. Many people try thinking it was easy. Majority fails along the way but the few who has the passion stays.
Corgratulations! 500 is a huge number seen from who, like me, is just over 100 🙂
Congrats sir Ed!
I hope I could do the same too.
Hi Ads,
You definitely can do the same. Just keep blogging!
why we should not blog about our blog statistics? what’s wrong with that?
Hi Michi,
Thanks for the visit and the comment.
I can’t find the article now but one thing I remember about not blogging about our statistics was that it will be bragging already. After all, who will blog about his lousy statistics, the author wrote. Instead, he advised to use stats plugins or widgets to show the PR, pageviews and visits to our blogs.