2007 Review, Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone! As 2007 is coming to an end, I thought I would look back over my first year in blogging and mention the major points in whats been an interesting journey!

March 2007: Start blogging with my first sports blog NRL News. A daily blog discussion on Rugby League, launched on the Blogger.com platform I would soon after register my own domain www.NRLnews.com

April 2007: My NRL website begins to get a decent amount of hits. Mostly direct hits (non-search engine traffic) So I implement AdSense and was able to make $5 a day from this website.

June 2007: After enjoying on-going AdSense revenues, I decided to expand my blogroll and create several other sites that would bring in additional income from AdSense. So DOTA Tips was born, dedicated to the Warcraft 3 game - DOTA. What started as a very basic blog, now receives over 700 unique hits per day and brings in impressive AdSense dollars and also is an affiliate earner through Azoogle Ads.

July 2007: Google awards my sites new PageRanks. NRL News now becomes a PageRank5, DOTA Tips becomes PageRank 2 and several of my 'throw away' blogs get PageRank. (6 blogs received PageRank 3 or below which was a surprise)

August 2007: Doctor tells me I have 30 days to live. I sign on for Ed Dale's 30 Day Challenge (www.thirtydaychallenge.com) and I have proved all the doctors wrong. I live happily and healthy 4 months on. The 30 Day Man (this blog) is born.

September 2007: My true introduction to the blogging world. I discover the likes of Problogger, Shoemoney, John Chow and countless others. I start using an RSS reader daily and upgrade my goals on what the earning potentials are of my blogroll.

October 2007: The 30 Day Man armed with a PageRank 4 starts signing RSS subscribers. Approaching 40 subscribers.

November 2007: Total blogroll earnings over $10 a day now ($70US per week) and the future is exciting. RSS readers hit 50 and Tyler Cruz dot com reviews The 30 Day Man on his popular personal blog.

December 2007: Through additional promotions such as EntreCard and some SEO Experiments - 30 Day Man's hits approach 200 uniques per day.

And guess what? I am still alive and kicking. Proving all those doctors wrong.

Thanks for visiting and I look forward to seeing everyone again next year. Merry Christmas!

3 Comments:

Anonymous said...

Sounds like quite the success story. Keep up the good work and prove those doctors wrong!

Anonymous said...

Thanks CG ...

Anonymous said...

This is probably the coolest post I have read this week.

Congrats on your success and here is to your longevity my friend.

All the best.

The Hustler