Well I have to say I’m kinda happy this roller coaster ride called January is over. It was just full of highs and lows, and like a roller coaster ride it was fun in the beginning but somewhere in the middle it felt like I gonna fall out my seat, then by the end I wanted to throw up yet I was up for a second ride. Maybe that’s just an extreme comparison but you get the idea.

About the traffic

The beginning of the month started out pretty good, I was getting around 50 hits a day. That quickly changed, mostly due to my writers block and lack of promotion. The traffic plummeted to 8 hits per a day over a week or so, then I started to get back into my grove, and all though i’m still not back up to where I was i’m working on it.

I have to say thanks

Most of my traffic came from Google and a few other blogs, here are the top three:
1. The Moneyac
2. Dollar Shower
3. Rowell Dionicio

The Posts

This month didn’t have too many “big” posts, you may remember the post, My Recipe To A High PR“. It’s the second most popular post comment wise and got about 200 views. From then on this place started to roll down the hill because of that sever writers block I got. Then their was the “What My Car Taught Me About Blogging“post. Theirs a story behind it but the gist of it is that I pretty much wanted to get rid  of this place. The other posts showed you my Secrets To Post Pictures, told you Why You Need To Sponsor Contests, and the last one gave a short lesson on Post By Post Blog Promotion.

Overall I was upset with my posts, they weren’t my highest quality posts, and I did fall short of my goal of 15 posts for the month.

Speaking of goals

Even though traffic went down and my subscriber count of 40 is a sad excuse for a blogger blog. I actually did do some damage on my rank goals this month.

Alexa Rank:

Current: 465,530
On January 1st: 618,207
Goal: 75,000

Technorati Rank:

Current: 206,378
On January 1st: 353,929
Goal: 20,000

Technorati Authority:

Current: 29
On January 1st: 17
Goal: 200

More Thank You’s

I wanna thanks every one that linked to me before with a little link love (sorry I couldn’t put you guys into individual posts yet, but i’m gonna try)
The Moneyac
New Year New Priorities New Start
Why Many Top Bloggers Use Magazine Style Themes
Saturday Blog Update

Rauru
Why Blog Commenting Rocks

Intertextual
Interview With Ardit From Blogict

Extreme Ezine
The Social Edition

Blogriffic
Sunday Link Love

I can’t say how much I appreciate the mentions/links, honestly I try to find every one that links to me but some times I miss em so please contact me with a link. Ill hook you up nicely.
I did get something like 10 other links from a contest I sponsored but I left those out cause the posts weren’t very informative.

Massive change?

You may be wondering why the picture says “Massive Change”, well i’m not going to go too deep into it but, it’s because this place has gone downhill quite a bit in the past month, and that’s gonna  change. I’m gonna get back on task, and post only my best stuff.

What happened in the past month with you and your blogs?
How are your goals going?

P.S. I commented over 100 times this month and I started using Twitter so follow me, even though I don’t use it too much.
P.P.S. I want to say thanks to every one that commented this month.

Image by sookie