As some of you may have noticed, I stopped writing the monthly blog traffic posts, for two main reasons:

I reached my initial goal

When I started writing those posts back in March, my goal was to reach 500 Visits / day in the next 3 months. Well, it took twice the time, but I manged to achieve that. I now have about 560 Visits / day and the subscriber count also increased considerably: from 3 subscribers in March to about 360 subscribers.

I can’t help smiling when I read Part 1 of this series. I was so excited when I got my first StumbleUpon traffic. 247 Visits! Wow, man, I’m gonna be rich! Ha ha! ;)

I want to make this more meaningful

Instead of writing one post each month, just bragging about my traffic, I will try to write less, but add more meaning to these posts. I will talk about my blogging experience and how blogging helps me as a freelance web designer. Things happened during the last couple of months.

The final countdown

Here are some one final graphs: a monthly view from Analytics and the evolution of my subscriber count.

If I were to draw the line, this blog’s statistics for the first 8 months are not bad at all. They’re not impressive, but not bad either. I have been unable to write as often as I would have liked. You can see that on the graph as well: the quick increase in traffic toned down a bit in the last couple of months. But just like Adii, I seem to have a sustainable traffic (at a smaller scale, of course).

So here are “the lucky numbers”

50k Visits, 100k Pageviews and 360 subscribers.

If you guys have questions…

  • Was it hard work? I wouldn’t say so, not yet. I wouldn’t call working on my own WordPress theme “hard work”. I would probably call it “fun”. As for the writing… come on! It’s not brain surgery.
  • Was it a lot of SEO? Not really, just basic stuff. Just trying to keep the code as clean as possible, use some keywrods here and there (nothing obvious by any means), meta tags, that sort of thing.
  • Did I write “one post per day”? No way! That would have been great though, cause now I would probably have 10 times the traffic.
  • Did I write kick ass content? I don’t know… maybe… Yeah, some posts. Definitely not all of them.

Ok, then how did I do it?

Oh… why didn’t you say so? That’s easy: use common sense!

Common sense? What the hell do you mean by that? This isn’t going to be one of those “use the force” type of blogging tips, is it?

No, man! Common sense! Like… go and comment on a couple of blogs (starting with your own… duh!), meet some cool people, Digg their stories, answer their emails, give something back before asking for stuff. You know… be yourself. Unless you’re a selfish bastard, in which case this strategy isn’t gonna work! :)

Ok, enough of this “talking to myself” nonsence.

Is this really the end?

Well, for now it is. I mean you won’t be seeing the Analytics screenshots for a while now. But you can always contact me if you have questions. There are only a handfull of things that I consider to be “confidential”, so I’ll be more than happy to answer your questions (the simple ones at least).