Zen Zoomie’s Place: Chronicles of a (Wannabe) Pro Blogger

This week’s report covers two weeks (last update was July 21^st).

Google PageRank: N/A

(Google should be recalculating PageRank soon, so I hope that this will change during the next update!)

Alexa Traffic Rank: 497,601
(Improved from ‘No Data’ on July 1^st, 8,000,000+ on July 7^th, 1,336,647 on July 14^th, 557,205 on July 21^st)

Yahoo Inlinks: 1,566
(up from 80 on July 7th, 271
on July 14th, 808 on July 21st)

One Week Incoming Traffic from Search Engine Queries: 42
(up from none from July 1-7th, 5 from July 8^th – 14^th, 20 from July 15^th – 20^th)

Technorati Rank: 280,190
(up from 1,352,025 on July 14^th, 465,071 on July 21st)

Considering I didn’t make any updates to the site or do any marketing from July 21^st – July 29^th, I’m very happy with how things have improved over the last week. I’d expected traffic and readership to slow to a crawl during my week away, but things seem to have kept moving. Visitors did slow down quite a bit during the week off, but picked right back up when I began posting content again.

Over the last week, I’ve really concentrated on one thing: generating some good solid content that will keep readers coming back, and it’s paying off. Reader feedback to my current series about How the Great Blogs Began has been very positive. Visitors that find those articles are staying for several minutes on average—longer than any of the content I’ve written previously—which means more people are really reading them. During the next week, I’ll continue to focus on that series. I’ll also get back to doing some social marketing and link-building, which I’ve neglected completely this week.

If you haven’t read the How the Great Blogs Began series yet, you should! Check it out for a unique look at how some of the most successful bloggers today got their start.

• How the Great Blogs Began
  
• Great Blogs: The First Posts
  
• Great Blogs: The First Posts (Round 2)