Published October 6th, 2006 by hrabbach
A little status update
This site has been up and running for a little over two months now and I just thought it’s time for a little status update. First of all, thanks to all of you who keep coming to this site and making it a success. The number of pageviews has grown almost exponentially and there is now also a significant and growing number of feed and email subscribers. If at first I wasn’t sure if a site like this would really find an audience, I am now.
Last month, thanks to a gift certificate from my domain registrar, we were able to run a little 10 day Google Adwords campaign to drive more traffic to the site. Many of these visitors seem to be returning on a regular basis now because the pageviews haven’t dropped as much as I would have expected after the end of the campaign. These campaigns are expensive, so unless I get another gift certificate, there won’t be another adwords campaign anytime soon (of course if you want to make a contribution toward this, feel free to use the Paypal link in the sidebar) - this site isn’t making any money except for the little bit that comes in through advertising and isn’t even enough to pay for hosting and domain registration yet (which isn’t a big deal because making money is not what this site is about).
There are two things we need at the moment: links from other websites, so we can improve the page rank of this relatively new site and drive more traffic to it - and comments. If you can provide either of the two, feel free to do so. I would love to see some discussions and feedback on the articles, they will make the site feel more “alive”. And maybe if I see you have something to say, you might be invited as a guest author in the future. If you want to link to the site and use a logo with it, I suggest you use this logo - it’s ok if you use it from your site, no need to copy it to your own server. If we ever change it, we’ll make sure that the URL remains the same.
Again, thanks for visiting - seeing the number of readers and subscribers grow is one of the things that motivate me to sit down and write new articles even when times are busy (like they are going to be in the next few weeks, when I’ll be away a lot). Without you, this site would be like a radio station that nobody listens to…
