Has it been a year already? Happy Birthday Port 16!
July 11, 2008
Boy, time sure flies when you’re having fun! I’m going to skip the normal link post today to talk a little bit about the last year.
It’s hard to believe that one year ago I made my first post here, “Welcome to Port 16 – and so it begins”. I was so excited when the idea for the domain name first popped into my head, that I just couldn’t wait to get the hosting set up, even though I was going on vacation.
Like a lot of blogs, I started out strong, and then petered off later on. It seems like especially since January, I’ve been having some difficulty posting. I hope to change that, and get back on track. I don’t think I’ll be able to get back to posting daily, but I’m going to do my best.
What have you learned?
1. It’s not easy posting every day. This is especially true with a busy work schedule, and the demands of a family. I haven’t even come close, although there were some stretches where I was able to pull it off, it’s a lot of work.
2. You can meet some really great people blogging. I’ve been really fortunate to meet some other great bloggers through my blog, and it’s really been great to have conversations with them, either on the blog, or through emails. I’ve also had readers email me with questions, and I’ve really enjoyed the feedback, as well as having the opportunity to help them out too.
3. It’s hard to turn visitors into readers – Granted, I haven’t worked at this as hard as I should have, there are some other tricks that I could employ. Still, as you’ll see later, I’ve had a ton of visitors, but it’s nowhere near the same number of people who subscribe to my blog.
So, what’s next?
Of course, I’m trying to get back into posting again. I also think that I’m going to be changing the direction of the blog some.
Port 16 has always been my personal blog, but I’ve posted a lot about technical topics. The tech content isn’t going to leave entirely, but since I’ve started Two Guys Tech with Art, I’m going to be focusing most of the tech content there, and posting more about non-tech personal stuff here.
Can we please see some numbers?
Being the geek that I am, I like to see stats. So here’s what I’ve got.
- 156 – The number of posts that I’ve made to port 16.
- 13 – The average number of posts per month.
- 29,068 – The number of absolute unique visitors I’ve had.
- 23,212 – The number of unique pageviews that my most popular post has had.
- 4, 057 – The number of unique visitors I had on November 23rd, 2007, which was my best day ever.
Now, to qualify those numbers some, I only saw such large numbers of visitors because Pearl had stumbled my post about WindDirStat, which sent a flood of traffic to me, for several months.
Conclusion
The last year has been really great, and I think that I’m going to be blogging for quite a long time. I just renewed my hosting account for another year, so no fears there.
I would really like to thank everyone who’s stopped by, and everyone who comes by regularly. I really appreciate you guys and gals taking the time out to read something that I’ve wrote, and I hope that you continue to find things that are worthwhile here.
Thank you, I look forward to another year of blogging.
The Photo is “Birthday Cupcakes” by Heather Shelley
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July 11th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
It’s unbelievable, isn’t it? I started in April of last year and may be I will start blogging again too – although once you stop writing, it’s really hard to get back in the routine. Oh, Im so glad my spending all that time on social sites is not going to waste
I enjoy reading your blog and am glad to have come in contact with you Scott, so it’s great to hear you are going to continue…
here’s to many more years of success in your online ventures..
July 12th, 2008 at 7:49 am
The social networking aspect is one area I could use some improvement, but you can’t do everything, right? You sure do carry some weight around those though.
It can be hard to get back into it, but it’s doable. Just before I started this blog, I was in a non-writing funk. I sure hope you’ll get back into writing again, I know I’m not the only one who enjoyed reading you’re blog.
I appreciate you’re readership, as well as all of the email exchanges and conversations we’ve had. You’re absolutely one of the people who’ve made this all worthwhile.
Thanks Pearl!
July 12th, 2008 at 11:12 am
that’s very kind of you Mike but how can you forgive someone so easily who keeps messing up on your name?
I just noticed that I called you Scott in that comment!
seriously, I’m so sorry… my minds been messed up a lot lately…. I had switched back and forth between your blog and Scott’s blog, had written a comment on his post too…I know that’s not a great excuse…
I’m embarrassed … well, this time at least its not Mark
hope you are having a good weekend Mike..
July 12th, 2008 at 11:24 am
I wasn’t worrying about it Pearl, my last name is Scott, and I’ve been called that for so long that it was hard getting used to Mike again. People do it all the time, I don’t even give it a thought.
Hope you’re having a good weekend too. We just got back from shooting rockets and camping, and we’re going to the zoo in just a bit.