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Today is my first blogging anniversary!
On July 29, 2006 at 5:43 pm I posted my first blog post on bomega.com titled “The Internet Entrepreneur“. Since then I have written 571 posts (an average of 1,5 posts per day) and received 1,572 comments (an average of 2,7 comments per post). My posts have received 77,686 unique visitors in the last 365 days.
I still get a lot of satisfaction from blogging. It helps me get my ideas out there and I enjoy all the feedback I get from people. I fully intend to keep blogging here and hope you keep reading and commenting.
There are also a few things I have learned in the past year.
1: Readers remember and like the longer posts but will only comment on shorter posts.
2: It is more important to be original than fast. Breaking news isn’t nearly as important as telling an original story.
3: Google ratings are overrated; I do great in Google but for the weirdest queries. Search for ‘My First Vibrator‘ and I’m there on result number 5. These kind of posts sure attract a lot of people but they stay exactly 3 seconds and are gone again.
4: Don’t ever use your blog to vent your frustration about people. Frustration about things is great but getting mad at people won’t do you much good.
5: ‘Hyperlinks are little acts of generosity’ –David Weinberger; the more I link to other sites the more visitors I get and the more my blog is appreciated.
Next to having learned these simple truths my blog also got me a lot of other things. You might remember my Blackberry Pearl post which got me a free Blackberry Pearl within a few hours. But I also met various people and made a few deals after I got in touch with some of my readers. I also speak more often and get paid more since I started blogging.
All in all I can honestly say that blogging works for me.
I hope it works for you too…
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Congrats and happy blogging (one of your feedreaders).
Congrads and keep em coming!!!
Congratiolations with 1 year blogging Boris. Hope to read those 1,5 posts every day for another year :-)
Congrats on one year of blogging, I think I started following you about 9 months ago (don’t know how I ended up on this blog) but I will sure keep on following you in the future, always a nice read with original stories. Happy blogging!
Mazeltov!
Boris,
I fully agree with point 2 (and the others, but this one in particular), it is the reason why I subscribed and still am today. The combination of optimism and almost childlike wondering about things you see and do makes a fun read almost every time.
Keep it going!
- OD
Only one year.. that’s short although it feels like you have been blogging a much longer time.
I guess that’s just the quality of your blog messing with time :).
Congratiolations, I am always looking out for new posts on your blog, so keep on going!
Thank you for your comments! As I said in the post these comments make blogging fun…
Congrats Boris, keep it up
Congratiolations, enjoy your blog very much! Keep it alive!
Gratz on your anniversay Boris.
You’re an inspiration for us all :)
Happy B-day! are feedreaders the “new” unique visitors btw? your readers seem to be growing while the unique visitors are on a more stable level (or even going downwards)
Congratulations! you have a refreshing blog. Just when I thought the whole blogging hype was over you started. I sometimes compare your blog with tonie.net which was on of the first. (after Francisco van Jole’s Daily Planet http://web.planet.nl/archief/daily/dp95.html).
Your blog has a nice personal touch.
(I have the feeling everybody including me at first, copy-pasted the word Congratiolations, from the third post, which is spelled wrong).
Happy anniversary Boris! Keep it up as I would love to keep reading your interesting thoughts and posts..
Congratulations and keep on posting interesting content and thoughts, as you already do!
Gefeliciteerd! Always nice to read your posts Boris!
being on the universe top 5 for “My First Vibrator” is definitely a big hit - kudos! Shows how big is the power of blogs and the value of conversation.
I don’t even want to suggest monetising that post…but it could have very interesting results :)
Congratulations and celebrations!