Happy Birthday To Me! 1st Blog Birthday!
Yes, its true, I’ve been blogging for 14 months today but technically I count it as a year because there was a period in the middle where I didn’t blog at all or blogged very little. This has been a tremendous journey for me and I’m going to try to recap how my past blog birthdays have gone keeping in mind that I did skip over quite a few birthdays after month #6 but I’ll do what I can with the posts that I have. Considering I did plan on selling the blog in the middle, writing this post makes me realize why doing that would have been a stupid mistake. So keeping all that aside, lets take a look back at the past year or whatever has been documented atleast!
Blog Birthday - Month #1 - Link
I realized that it wasn’t easy running a blog and it was harder to get people motivated to keep coming back for more. At this time, Technorati was over 1 million and Alexa was around 997,000
Blog Birthday - Month #2 - Link
I had just gotten accepted into ReviewMe a few days before this birthday and had won a contest by Jay over at OnlineOpportunity! I had also won Ms. Danielle’s Zune Contest and had started a contest of my own to give away an video player and that really helped my rankings. Technorati at this point was at 160,000 and Alexa was at 420,000
Blog Birthday - Month # 3 - Link
I had started a link train by the name of Jump Start Your Page Rank that had become so popular that it resulted in over 600 blog reactions on Technorati over its life. By this blog birthday, I had won 3 more contests that included cash prizes, t-shirts and quite a bit of advertising. Alexa was at 225,000 and Technorati was a mind boggling 26,000 by this time.
Blog Birthday - Month # 4 - Link
I wrote my first post about female bloggers that inspired by to do the Top 50 List shortly after which is now replaced by the Top 100 Female Blogger List. I had moved to a new server and Technorati was around 16,000 and Alexa was at 109,000 at this point.
Blog Birthday - Month # 5 - Link
I decided to give TTZMedia a shot over Adsense and decided that TTZ Media wasn’t performing as well. I was also not as constant at blogging resulting in one of my lowest months since the blog was first started. Alexa was at 87,000 and Technorati was acting weird and rose mysteriously to 19,000 when this post was written.
Blog Birthday - Month # 6 - Link
After reviewing Robert Macewan’s Blog here, I was asked by the Prize Blog to review them by the time month 6 rolled around with half price reviews. Alexa was at 81,000 and Technorati was near 21,000 by this point.
TODAY - July 15th 2008
After moving over from the original domain to www.enkayblog.com I realized that I’ve learned a lot about blogging because I was able to set up this blog faster in terms of Feedburner, Technorati, Alexa, MyBlogLog, Twitter, etc. If you guys didn’t notice, Alexa was around 4,300,000 a week ago when it first showed up for this domain considering it was brand new but today it already stands in the 800,000’s. Thats a phenomenal drop and I hope that such things continue to happen.
As far as Technorati is concerned, I’m around the 230,000 mark compared to the rank of over 1 million that I had when I wrote my first post here which was July 7th, so thats not even 10 days!!
I also realized that the move made my blog go from a PR 0 to PR 3. Although PR is a bunch of bogus anyway, I know that I’ve always been punished by Google considering they’ve previously taken away my PR 3 for my original domain and bumped me down to a 0.
Currently the blog has over 350+ posts, 1500+ comments and a stunning 500,000+ spam comments! Nice to see those numbers, dont you think?
My RSS Subscriber count was what I was most worried about but thanks to feedburner I was able to do a simple transfer and my RSS count has been the highest its ever been being near and on some days over 100.
All in all, I’m very excited to be able to celebrate 14 months (technically 1 YEAR) of blogging. I’m also glad to be back to blogging after my hiatus and seeing numbers like these I really don’t want to ever have to give up my blog. Anyway, I hope that you guys check out my great contest and take part in it because theres some great prizes to be had so go check it out and Thank you to all my readers for all your support!
Happy Blog Birthday! It’s my blog’s first birthday too, though mine is exactly 12 months old today.
Congratulations!!! I’m glad you didn’t sell when you were considering it and also that you finally made the move so that your URL is much easier to remember and type in….although, I still remember the old address!
Thanks Nick! I just realized that selling was not such a good idea after all as it would have killed my readership and plus switching to the new URL was the best move I ever made! Thanks for remembering the old one because I think I’ve already forgotten it! haha
I know you’re not serious, but here goes (from memory) http://nkhan.jwmediabox.com/blog/
Wow, you do remember it! Thats pretty impressive. Most people don’t know how that had come about but I was actually 1 month away from the hosting and domain expiring and thats when I started my blog and stuck around since then. That blog will be down soon unfortunately once the hosting expires.
CONTRATULATION AMIGO! Happy blog birthday!!! Can I visit to your blog birthday party…hehehe
Thanks! My Blog Birthday party is technically the contest I’m running so check it out!
happy Birthday! Yay!
Thanks!
Congrats man.
This blog is becoming popular
Thanks! I’m really hoping to see the blog get even more popular!
Congrats on making it to your first year with your blog! You should show some screen shots of its progression through the year!
Thanks Debby! I think I’m going to do a post with screenshots to show how the blog has progressed. All I need to do now is figure out how to go back in time but I’m sure I can find it.
Happy Birthday. Congratulation on making it to your first year. Hope more to come!
Thanks Salwa! I definitely want to keep blogging myself so im looking forward for more of these blog birthdays!
Congratulation bud…I hope to see your blog in many more years to come. As I just started my own blog and make money to it, lol.
Julius @ juliusorias.ws
Thanks Julius! I will be checking out your blog from now on
Hey Enkay, I am just out cruising around tonight and came across you via Nick via the Standout Blogger so as you can see I’m just out on a summers’ night. When I was at Nick’s he mentioned your contest in a post and I thought I’d check you out. So it’s your Birthday congrats!! I am only almost 3 mths. old so it will be awhile for me to celebrate. I do however need a new laptop, if you go to my site you’ll see that all of a sudden the other day my cursor was stuck and would not move… got that fixed and now when you go to scroll, the cursor jumps all over the place. I had panicked and reached out to my readers in a comment from my neighbors house! What a day… so I will try to get going and enter your contest and see what happens. Great post and good luck with your contest.
Thanks for your post. I did look over your blog and saw the post about your laptop problems. I am sure that entering this contest could help resolve those issues if you win. Aside from entering and winning a brand new laptop, I wouldn’t want you to lose your old laptop so, considering that I think this is a touch pad issue, I’d recommend buying a cheap secondary mouse thats under $10 and trying that to see if it helps you out. I hope to see you enter and Thank you again!
Hey Enkay, Yes it is a touchpad issue. You are smart! I have worn a spot on the pad so now when I use the touch pad I have to keep my finger on the left of the pad. You guessed it, I’m right handed so there is a worn out place. Very difficult to remember to keep to the left… if I don’t the pages just go flying up and down. I contacted my computer repair guy and he told me to get a Logitech marble ball? But I also put an order in with him to get me a new laptop. He told me he would order me an Asus and I had never heard of it, said it was one of the better cp.’s around. Then tonight I read that your’s is an Asus, so I’m thinking that this is a sign.But I had better get going and read up on what I have to do to enter. Saturday-that’s what I’ll do. Thanks a bunch
Thanks for checking back with me about this. The Logitech marble ball mouse, in my opinion, is not something that most people even use anymore. Its a pretty old concept and I would suggest getting an optical mouse or if you prefer a wireless optical mouse. The ASUS EEE Pc is a best seller and thats why I had picked to give it away so yes, maybe it is a sign!
Congrats on the 1st blog birthday! The new URL looks cleaner & definitely easier to remember!
My blog’s 1st anniversary coming up soon, look out for it!
Thanks BetShopBoy! I am waiting for your blog birthday to come around!
Congratulations! I hit my 1 year mark for Online Opportunity back in April, and know what a great feeling that is. Keep with it, and you’ll make 2 years before long!
Thank you Jay. I definitely keep stalking OnlineOpportunity when I make my rounds. Unfortunately March and April were the two months that I wasn’t around so I missed your blog birthday. You probably have the most detailed and informative posts out there so its no surprise that youre still going strong! Thanks again!
happy birthday!! seems like much longer doesn’t it? congrats on making it to this mark and with much success. hope to see you in another year as well!
Thanks Danielle! It feels like a long but I’m sure you’ll still be leading the rest of us next year
Ill be waiting for another year!
happy birthday, maybe i late to say happy birthday but i hope you can be success and make a wish
Happy Birthday…
I have yet to reach this point at my blog.
Thanks Syed. I’m just counting on Year 2 to be better than Year 1 for me!
Congrats on your first birthday and wish you more success in the second year..
Yan
Thanks Yan!