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Sunday Blogbits – Performance Report and more

Althaf — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:34:37 +0000

Blogrepreneur has entered its 3^rd month. January was a pretty slow month, mainly due to my busy schedule and the accident I met with, in the late second half of the month. Nevertheless, there were a couple of interesting developments worth taking note of.

To start off, The blog made 3 Clickbank sales off one review that I wrote in the beginning of the month. It was for Micro Niche Finder. The total commissions ended with $91. It isn’t a great amount, but it definitely is not bad for a plain review.

The Blog received 330 visitors from Google and a few from MSN and Yahoo. The most searched were “Worlds weirdest homes” and Micro Niche Finder”.

According to Google Analytics, the blog received a total 6700 visitors and 10575 pageviews, much less than December. However, I am happy that the quality of visitors were better than what it was in December. I observed it from comments and personal feedbacks, as well as the source of the traffic.

The RSS Subscriber was static for the most part of the month. It changed last week after Yaro Starak from Entrepreneur’s Journey mentioned my book in his blog. RSS subscriber base jumped from 137 to 150 in the last 6 days. Not a great development, but a development overall. Thank you Yaro for sending the traffic as well as new readers.

I had a goal of 3 guests posts every month. I completely missed it. I am going to work better towards hitting that goal. Last month, I started off the Micro Niche Marketing experiment. It is still going on. I will give an update in a few moments.

Do I have a goal for February? Nothing specific really. As usual, I would like to see myself fire up top of the world posts, would like to increase my readership, linkbaits, etc. If there is one thing I would like for my blog, that would be to maintain the quality I started with. Everything else, in my view will be bonuses.

Now to the Micro Niche Marketing Experiment. There hasn’t been any progress in terms of Google ranking, as it is a pretty new domain. I have been building links slowly. Last week, I managed to get about 50 links. In my opinion, 50 links a week is pretty good. I am targeting the same keywords I did before. I am positive Google has sandboxed me. It may take a couple months before I am released from it. I am going to continue building it.

I have been getting a steady 50-100 visitors everyday from referral sites like StumbleUpon, etc. This traffic will help me expedite the time to get out of Google’s sandbox. Hopefully.

At the moment, the experiment is pretty boring. Next week, I will reveal the niche I am running this experiment on. Hopefully, that should bring in the excitement.

How was January for you?

Sunday Blogbits – Performance Report and more

Sunday Blogbits – Bidding Farewell to 2007

Althaf — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:46:02 +0000

The year has literally come to an end. This is the last edition of Sunday Blogbits as well as my last post for this year. This year has had its own good and bad. For me, the year started with a bit of turmoil with the closing of my Hedge Fund, but got better in April when I met the C.E.O of Royal Forex Trading, Mr. Rayan Elannan. It was a come back to my old passion, Marketing and Business Development. From there, things have taken off pretty well for me. The year end witnessed the launch of Blogrepreneur.com and the release of my book on Google Analytics. So, overall, 2007 was a good year.

As of today, Blogrepreneur is 49 days old. 7 calendar weeks. In these 7 weeks, the Blog has witnessed an excellent growth, beyond my expectation. One of my goals was to reach the 100 subscriber figure before the year end. Let me give you a recap of the developments the blog has gone through in the past 7 weeks.

Alexa Rank – 880,401 -> 212,566
Google PR – NA – Same
Backlinks – 120 -> 500+
Technorati – 461,000 -> 224,227
RSS Subscribers – 97 -> 137

The Blog has received 10,055 visitors and 15,332 page views according to Google Analytics. Apart from the above, I was able to set aside time to finish an educational series for newbie bloggers titled “Blogging 101”. Almost simultaneously, I released my book “ABC of Google Analytics”. The book has been downloaded by 230 people.

The above is definitely not bad, considering the time frame they were achieved in. I am happy, but definitely not satisfied. If there is one thing in the world that never gets filled, it is the desire of man. So, I am just another human craving for more.

It is time to say farewell now and to welcome the year 2008. I plan to start the year with a set of goals for myself and my blog. I am going to work on them one by one, reward myself when each one is achieved, until all of them are fulfilled by year end.

Guest Blog at least 3 times in a month.
Create powerful linkbait articles.
Achieve a Page Rank of 6.
Average 2500 Page views per day.
Rank below 50,000 in Alexa.
Enter Technorati Top 1000 Blogs.
Develop 50 Social Media Contacts.
Gain 1000 RSS Subscribers.
Generate $2500 in Monthly Income.
Develop Techrepreneur.com.
Launch Next6.com, A Marketing Venture.
Achieve Financial Independence.

I know the goals are not really modest, but I do believe in thinking outrageously. By the end of 2008, if I achieve even 70% of the above, I will be very happy. There is one other element that I briefly mentioned in the Goal list. Techrepreneur.com. It is a technology related blog I started sometime back. My younger brother Azeem runs the show at the moment. By the end of 2008, I hope to see similar achievement, at Techrepreneur.com.

I want to thank all my visitors and RSS readers for helping me achieve the above. I hope to see the same community feeling in the year 2008 and later.

Welcome 2008.

Sunday Blogbits – Bidding Farewell to 2007

A Recap of November 2007

Althaf — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 10:46:13 +0000

I launched this blog on the 12^th of November. The blog started off the usual way everyone begins. I had given a few statistics in my first post promising to return to it every month to gauge the growth. I have to admit the blog has taken off very well and that I am happy with the 18 days progress report. So, let us recap the figures:

Alexa Rank – 2,176,961 -> 880,401
Google PR – NA – Same
Backlinks – 0 -> 120
Technorati – 3+ million -> 461,000
RSS Subscribers – 0 -> 97

Ok Ok, I agree the RSS Subscribers shot up because of the contest. Nevertheless, it was an achievement that cannot be ignored. Apart from this, 3 days back one of my articles was featured on the front page of Shoutwire sky rocketing the visitors from 70+ to 700+ for 3 days. It was again a positive feeling and a healthy motivation to continue.

Today is the first week of the contest and I have picked up 2 winners at random. The first winner is Laura Williams for a $25 gift certificate from Amazon.com. The prize was sponsored by Muhil Jayaraman from Halomark.biz, a blog about Technology. Laura, Muhil has already emailed your gift certificate to your Yahoo address. Kindly confirm upon reception in the comments section. Second prize goes to Barbetti from barbetti.wordpress.com. Barbetti, you have won a set of ebooks. I will email it to you in 24 hours.

Congrats to both the winners and looking forward to next week. Good Luck all.

For December, I plan to continue as usual with one exception. I will be posting once every 2 days rather than everyday. This is mainly because of my tight schedule at Royal Forex. The company has expanded to Switzerland and now is building up office in Dubai, U.A.E. Busy times ahead.

I also plan to open up Guest Blogging area. Dee Wilson opened up the category with her article on Social Marketing. Excellent writing Dee.

I will be releasing my book on Monday night to the public. Be sure to subscribe to my RSS to stay updated. This is one book you shouldn’t miss. Best of all, it comes at no cost to you. Stay tuned for the announcement.

With this, I conclude this post. Have a great weekend everybody.

A Recap of November 2007