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

Week two’s raw stats…things are looking up!

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

Alexa Traffic Rank: 557,205
(Improved from ‘No Data’ on 1 July, and 8,000,000+ on 7 July, 1,336,647 on 14 July)

Yahoo Inlinks: 808
(up from 80 two weeks ago, 271 on 14 July)

One Week Incoming Traffic from Search Engine Queries: 20
(up from 0 two weeks ago, 5 on 14 July)

Technorati Rank: 465,071
(up from 1,352,025 on 14 July)

Not bad. I really concentrated on two things during the last week. #1 was generating some good solid content for the Blog and brainstorming future blogging topics. I have quite a few ideas that I haven’t seen covered anywhere else, and I can’t wait to get to work on them. #2 was getting out on some of my favorite blogs and actively participating in the discussions. I chose a mix of "Do Follow" and "No Follow" blogs to make sure I’m getting a few links built in the process. If there’s only one thing you can do to ‘market’ our blog in the early days, this is a great bang for the buck. If you contribute thoughtful or insightful comments, you will get visitors that follow your link back to your site. If you have good content before spinning up your marketing efforts, people will continue coming back to see what you’ve added or improved.

Unfortunately I’m going to have to take a quick one week break right as things are getting moving, but we’ll be back in the full swing of things on 30 July. I expect some of the stats will take a hit during that time, but it will actually be an interesting experiment in how a ‘pause’ effects site traffic growth in the early stages.