End of the month roundup: January 2009

January has been an awesome month here at Blogussion. New goals have been set, and our expectations couldn’t be any higher for February. We are incredibly happy with the way this blog has been going, and for that we thank all of our readers and subscribers who have made our first full month so great.

At the end of each month, I’ve decided I would make a post to go over with you our traffic stats, subscriber stats, top posts of the month, and other information. Just to show you how good of shape we’re really in, and so we can prove we don’t plan on going anywhere, except to the top, any time soon.

Subscriber Stats

The number of RSS readers on Blogussion has been fairly high by our expectations. I personally have never had more than 30+ subscriptions on a blog, so the number we have now is one I am very happy with. As of February 1st, 2009, Blogussion has 44 RSS subscribers. The numbers have jumped all over the place this month, but it ended on a number we are happy with. The most subscribers we’ve had at a time was 50, and we hope to double that number to 100 by the end of February.

Traffic Stats

The traffic here has been great. We never really set a goal for traffic, but what we did get was pretty impressive by our standards (and you have to remember that we are both small bloggers).

January 2008 Totals

Pictures speak better than words right? Here is a summed up screenshot for the traffic here at Blogussion in January 2009.

A good opening for 2009. Think we can beat it? I say we can.

Quick Fire Stats: The busiest day here was January 16, 2009 with 2,415 visits. People visit us the most using Windows XP (6076), Windows 2000 (2321), Windows Vista (2198), Mac OS X (1084), and Linux (426) with either Firefox 3 (5440), IE5 (2275), IE6 (2055), IE7 (1039) and Firefox 2 (594) as their browser.

Community Overview

• 325 people have commented on our blog this month.
• Richael Neet was the most talkative of the bunch.
• “How would you like 59 Awesome Ajax Scripts?” was our most viewed article.
• 31 articles were published in January
• We had 2 amazing guest posters on the blog

Thank You

Blogussion wouldn’t be as fun to write without all of readers. So to all of our readers/subscribers/commentators/guest poster/reviewers/friends:

To check out the kind of community we really have here, just check out the comments section. Lots of good discussion between our commentators goes on there, and the only thing missing is you. Get active, we’d love to have your voice in the community!

Guest Posting

We’ve had two guest posters on Blogussion, and in case you miss them, here are their amazing articles:

1. Optimizing the Layout of Your Homepage by Patrick DeVivo
2. 10 Tips for a new Forum Owner by Jitendraag.

Janith and I have also written on other blogs as guest posters. Missed those articles?

1. 7 Die-Hard Ways to Get More RSS Subscribers by Janith. Posted at Blogging Tips.
2. The ULTIMATE “fighting writer’s block” tip by Alex at TheBloggingPark.

Poll Breakdown

Every month, we have a poll you can all vote in. With January being our first full month on the internet, we made our first poll asking what you all though of Blogussion. A quick breakdown of the results:

• Out of 46 Votes…
• 18 people thought Blogussion was excellent
• 14 people thought Blogussion was pretty good
• 8 people thought Blogussion was alright, but nothing special
• 6 people thought Blogussion sucked.

Be sure to check out our new poll for February and vote in it!

What to expect in February

We have some pretty big releases for February. These plans may be carried out in this month, or for some unforeseen reason, they may be pushed back. But we are extremely confident about the following happening in February:

1. A homepage for Blogussion
2. The mother of all blogging lists
3. Advertising Opportunities
4. Possibly video posts.
5. More Guest post activity
6. Freebies!

Your Suggestions

So Blogussion has been around for a little more than a month, and I felt like we never really asked for your feedback. So I want to take a moment now to do so.

If you want to fill out a short survey, feel free to copy and paste this into the comments section with your answer. Remember, all answers will be looked at and there are no stupid answers:

What are your thoughts on Blogussion’s first month?:

Do you feel like the design of the blog can be improved at all?:

Do you think our content is good enough? Good post structure? Good information?:

What changes would you like to see here?:

Anything else you’d like to say: