Into 6th year of blogging
Last Sunday this blog completed 5 years of existence. You may read the first post, published on May 22, 2006 here. This blog was then on enidhispeaks.blogspot.com
2010-2011 has been very fruitful year as a blogger- I was official blogger for Tata Nano Superdrive 1 (Superdrive 2 is in progress as I write and I’m missing it), live blogged several events and conferences of CII and IAMAI. However I did miss an opportunity of US travel and another opportunity to join a cycling event as official blogger. Most of the posts were related to travel only, compared to business related posts which I used to write a lot during initial few years. Travel bloggers’ trip to Hoysala Village Resort has been the recent most activity related to blogging.
For the first time I could publish some international content on this blog during this year, thanks to two international travel opportunities that came my way.
As far as stats concerned, no major improvements. Visitor count still hovering around 400-500 visitors per day (about 1400 pageviews per day on an average) for past few years. Apart from publishing new post in Indivine and facebook, I’m not doing any promotions for the blog. May be I should, but no time. Couldn’t pursue link building either. The current template is about 1 year old- no immediate plans of changing it. The blog continues to be hosted on blogger- no plans of moving it to wordpress or incorporating better comment plugins.
Lucky to have a good number of regular readers, who continue to read and comment on my posts. Have identified regular commenters on two occasions- in two posts here and here. Will publish some more posts featuring regular visitors soon. I take this opportunity to thank all my readers.
Facebook and twitter are eating into one’s time which otherwise would have been spent on reading/writing or commenting on blog posts. The short and instant versions are indeed getting more popular and convenient. Not so serious bloggers are shifting to these, while regular bloggers are holding on to their habit of writing detailed posts. Not sure how future will turn out, but at this moment, I feel blogging will sustain for near future, due to their SEO value and ability to deliver quality long term content.
Made some friends and am sure to have made some enemies as well- there were many requests from Individuals and agencies, asking me to promote their product/service/cause, which I’d to turn down at my own discretion. Haven’t done strong reviews of any products/business schemes of late. The 4 years old Club Mahindra post is still doing strong.
The only regret is the number of articles I’ve sent to print, which is near zero. If I was not active online, I would have written down stuff on paper and send them to newspapers/magazines. At least one in ten would have got published. With blogging, its lot convenient to just type and publish instantly, than writing it down, reviewing, editing it and eventually sending it to some print media, only to wait sine die for a response…
Looking forward to 6th year of blogging and your continued support. Thanks in advance
Related: Best of 2007 * 2008 * 2009 * 2010 * About Me *
2010-2011 has been very fruitful year as a blogger- I was official blogger for Tata Nano Superdrive 1 (Superdrive 2 is in progress as I write and I’m missing it), live blogged several events and conferences of CII and IAMAI. However I did miss an opportunity of US travel and another opportunity to join a cycling event as official blogger. Most of the posts were related to travel only, compared to business related posts which I used to write a lot during initial few years. Travel bloggers’ trip to Hoysala Village Resort has been the recent most activity related to blogging.
For the first time I could publish some international content on this blog during this year, thanks to two international travel opportunities that came my way.
As far as stats concerned, no major improvements. Visitor count still hovering around 400-500 visitors per day (about 1400 pageviews per day on an average) for past few years. Apart from publishing new post in Indivine and facebook, I’m not doing any promotions for the blog. May be I should, but no time. Couldn’t pursue link building either. The current template is about 1 year old- no immediate plans of changing it. The blog continues to be hosted on blogger- no plans of moving it to wordpress or incorporating better comment plugins.
Lucky to have a good number of regular readers, who continue to read and comment on my posts. Have identified regular commenters on two occasions- in two posts here and here. Will publish some more posts featuring regular visitors soon. I take this opportunity to thank all my readers.
Facebook and twitter are eating into one’s time which otherwise would have been spent on reading/writing or commenting on blog posts. The short and instant versions are indeed getting more popular and convenient. Not so serious bloggers are shifting to these, while regular bloggers are holding on to their habit of writing detailed posts. Not sure how future will turn out, but at this moment, I feel blogging will sustain for near future, due to their SEO value and ability to deliver quality long term content.
Made some friends and am sure to have made some enemies as well- there were many requests from Individuals and agencies, asking me to promote their product/service/cause, which I’d to turn down at my own discretion. Haven’t done strong reviews of any products/business schemes of late. The 4 years old Club Mahindra post is still doing strong.
The only regret is the number of articles I’ve sent to print, which is near zero. If I was not active online, I would have written down stuff on paper and send them to newspapers/magazines. At least one in ten would have got published. With blogging, its lot convenient to just type and publish instantly, than writing it down, reviewing, editing it and eventually sending it to some print media, only to wait sine die for a response…
Looking forward to 6th year of blogging and your continued support. Thanks in advance
Related: Best of 2007 * 2008 * 2009 * 2010 * About Me *
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