Just as promised, I’m back with Part 2 of my Building Traffic for Your Blog series. When I wrote Part 1 of this series, this blog had a monthly average of 60 Visits / day and about 20 Subscribers. I also said that my plan was to reach and average of 500 Visits / day in the next 3 months. While I’m still pretty far from achieving that goal, I have to say April was a pretty good month.

I also drew some conclusions: I have to improve SEO, social networking traffic is just like the sea tide and blog traffic building doesn’t happen over night. They were all confirmed this month:

• While I didn’t put too much effort into SEO just yet, search engine traffic is better. I guess it has more to due with the quantity of content. More content = more chances of being hit. Still gotta work on this.
• I had my share of social networking traffic, which helped reach new people. Like I said: take advantage of your 10 minutes of fame.
• Blog traffic building is a long term commitment. It’s not easy, you often feel like quiting, but if you are persistent, results will start to show.

Here are this blog’s statistics for the month of April:

• In April I more than doubled the traffic: Ireached a total of 4366 Visits, which brings the monthly average to about 145 Visits / day
• The traffic sources pie chart looks like this: 26% search engines, 56% referring sites, 16% direct traffic
  
• Subscriber count tripled in just 1 month and now shows 62 subscribers (Thanks again!)

One of my goals when I started this blog was to create a free Wordpress theme and reach 100 downloads. I can check that one from the list. Corporate Sandbox has been downloaded 133 times.

Another wish was to find more freelance gigs (mostly blog design) and this is exactly what happened: I usually get 2 or 3 blog design requests each month, from people that stumble across my blog and like my design work. Generating some traffic to this blog is also something I can check from the list.

Now all I have to do is make my first $100 from blogging and be the first Romanian blogger who’s internationally famous, then I will have to come up with a new st of goals.

Thanks for listening!