April 2007 - Blog Report

There’s nothing like a good old Monthly Blog Report to see if the work this past month has lead to improvements in my blog. With the lingering effects of the Name in My Domain Link Train and the new Technorati Faves Link Train still going strong, my overall rankings have skyrocketed along with other metrics:

Technorati

• Rank - 7,840 1,111 links from 417 blogs
  • An overall increase of 15,585 in rankings from 23,425 due to the 703 new incoming links from the 256 new blogs linking to my site.
• Technorati Faves - 365 members have Favorited my Site.
  • I have now cracked the Top 25 Most Favorited Blogs on Technorati. I still can’t believe it’s rising and I promise this will be the last post I make about my position on the Top 100 list until I crack the Top 5, so don’t expect anything anytime soon :).

Alexa

• Rank - 108,768
  • An improvement of 118,945 with an average page view of 3.1

RSS Subscribers

• Number of Subscribers - 71 - increase of 18 subscribers
  • The high for the month was 93, but I would safely say the average for the month was just around 71, so this has come as no surprise.
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MyBlogLog

• Family, Friends & Contacts: 339 - increase of 100
• Community Members: 86
  • The MyBlogLog Link Train just started last week and it has picked up a lot of steam so I expect the community members to slowly grow - Click Here to Join

My Top Commentators - Thanks for making this community live with conversations and opinions.

• Ms. Danielle
• Nathan Drach
• Saman Sadeghi
• Homemom3
• Jon Lee
• Scot Smith
• Julies Journal
• Jimi Morrisons Head
• Ms. Q
• Jane May

Highlights

• Most definitely, the biggest highlight of the month has to be the success of another Link Train as the Technorati Faves Link Train has truly become a global blogosphere phenomenom.
• Cracking the Technorati Faves Top 100 List.
• Being Nominated as The Best Marketing Blog and currently tied att No. 5 on the list. If you haven’t voted yet, Please Vote for Me!
• Meeting New Bloggers from all over the world through the link trains.
• Finally getting my Page Ranking of 3 this past weekend. Definitely not what I expected, but certainly not the end of the world. If you haven’t checked it out yet, click here to check your page rank, courtesy of DoshDosh.com

Summary

This month, I have definitely learned that gaming the system with my Link Trains was really great for PR and notoriety, but it didn’t equate to the type of traffic I was hoping for as I explained in my Technorati Faves Link Train Effect post. The most humbling experience for me this month has to be the release of the Page Ranks this past weekend as I was definitely hoping to get a higher ranking. To be honest, ever since I started blogging a couple of months ago, I have just been concentrating on content and getting links. I neglected to make sure that my site was properly optimized for search engine results and have paid the price, assuming that it will take care of itself by installing the basic plugins such as the sitemap, optimal title and crawlpage. Of course, I have a lot of other theories behind my Page Rank, but if you could chime in with your opinion, I would definitely love to hear what you guys have to say about it! As for this upcoming month’s goals, it’s simple. I’m going to concentrate on just two things this month - writing more quality content and optimizing this blog as best as possible this month to rank better on Google SERPS.

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