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Progress Update : 2009 January 19th-31st

Posted on 05. Feb, 2009 by Derrick.

Ok. . Another 2 weeks has passed. . and I feel I have neglected my blog. . but not for good reason, As I have been busy working on videos for the Video Competition.  I was shooting to win the creative and was still hopeful for the video that gets the most traffic for my last video uploaded 2 days before the comp ended (I Guess I was a little too optimistic on that one). . Anyways. .I haven’t heard confirmation of the winners yet. but will be sure to post the results when I do.

So what’s happened in the last 2 week of January?  well after checking my time log, I was a little shocked to discover I spent just over 50 hours on the 500 Video!  And due to a couple of mini holidays during this time - weekend trip to Brisbane for Chinese New Year and a 4 day break at Jervis Bay in New South Wales - that also cut down my time available to be productive :).  So here’s what I have achieved:

1. Produced the 500 Video - I know I probably over did it :). . but I wanted to be totally happy with it, and I have to say I am pretty proud of the result ~ 50 hours
2. Traffic Generation Activity ~ 3hours
3. Building and optimising blog ~ 4 hours
4. Writing Content ~ 2 hours
5. Miscellaneous ~ 10 hours

After this first full month working on the blog. . - which has mainly consisted with producing the videos :). . and just in my research on what’s happening and whats out there, I feel I’m getting a much better idea of where I am best placed within the World Wide Web - I’ll be making my plans in the next week as I spend time evaluating where I should be heading, and what I want to spend my time on.

Ok. . so lets see how all this activity affected my traffic to my site: - Just click to open up the full size image

You’ll notice a HUGE peak on the 19th wtih 144 Visits in one day!  This was as a result of my first Video being launched.  My Second Video was launched on the 30th Jan and had to leave for my mini holiday so didn’t have the proper time to promote it.

Lastly my Alexa Ranking has improved as well. . I didn’t do a check on the 31st so here are my stats from today:

Wow - I’m now in the top 250,000 websites :). . My goal to get to the top 100,000 is in sights!  When I first started this blog sometime in mid December it was ranked around 9 Million, and slowly I have gone up the Alexa Ranks :).  .anwyays still much more work to do, but this is definitely encouraging!

THE FUTURE:

Anyways. I think my future lies in making instructional videos and reviews, so I’m researching on what I should be making them for.  If you have any ideas or suggestions on what type of videos I should be making - please leave your comments below!

Cheers,

Derrick

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