Comments on: Building a Better Blog for 2007: Define Your Own Success http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/12/04/building-a-better-blog-for-2007-define-your-own-success/ Financial talk for the rest of us Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:14:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Derek Cormier http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/12/04/building-a-better-blog-for-2007-define-your-own-success/#comment-827641 Derek Cormier Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:41:05 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/12/04/building-a-better-blog-for-2007-define-your-own-success/#comment-827641 I think writing about porn or kittens would help too, lol, but you failed to mention it.

]]> By: Scott http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/12/04/building-a-better-blog-for-2007-define-your-own-success/#comment-415361 Scott Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:00:17 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/12/04/building-a-better-blog-for-2007-define-your-own-success/#comment-415361 I’m curious as well as to how you were able to get 11,000 viewers your first week. This post was awesome, but I feel this is unexpected for most new blogs.

]]> By: Daniel J. Pritchett http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/12/04/building-a-better-blog-for-2007-define-your-own-success/#comment-355111 Daniel J. Pritchett Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:03:34 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/12/04/building-a-better-blog-for-2007-define-your-own-success/#comment-355111 Wait, you got 11,000 pageviews in the first seven days this site was live? What sort of amazing marketing bonanza did you launch with to get that kind of exposure? I just started writing a few small posts a week and sharing links here and there and after a month I’m nowhere near that territory.

]]> By: Adfecto http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/12/04/building-a-better-blog-for-2007-define-your-own-success/#comment-143424 Adfecto Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:43:14 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/12/04/building-a-better-blog-for-2007-define-your-own-success/#comment-143424 I just passed the one month milestone of my blog Aspire 2 Wealth. I must admit that I check my statistics frantically. I’m pretty happy with the 1,500+ unique visitors I’ve managed to pick up thus far, but I want to GROW. I need a little over 5% week-over-week growth to make my Dec 2008 goal of 5000 unique visitors per week. Continue that growth for another year and I would have nearly 10,000 unique visitors per day. Thanks for reinforcing my resolve to keep building.

]]> By: Gaya http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/12/04/building-a-better-blog-for-2007-define-your-own-success/#comment-2360 Gaya Tue, 02 Jan 2007 11:09:13 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/12/04/building-a-better-blog-for-2007-define-your-own-success/#comment-2360 Excellent and practical!
I love the spread sheet thing.
Thanks.

]]> By: moneysmartlife http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/12/04/building-a-better-blog-for-2007-define-your-own-success/#comment-574 moneysmartlife Mon, 04 Dec 2006 07:50:27 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/12/04/building-a-better-blog-for-2007-define-your-own-success/#comment-574 I agree it’s important to track your growth and a great way to look at it is in terms of percentage increase.

One thing I’ve found to be helpful as I’m getting started is to only check my site statistics once a week, not every day or every hour. That way I don’t worry so much about whether anyone is reading and can focus more on content. Think about it in terms of “if you build it, they will come”.

If after a while no one is reading your stuff, just start to leave comments on every one of Trent’s articles and maybe you’ll pick up a few readers that way :)

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