So I’m a little bit late on the uptake with this one, most of the organised bloggers out there had their 2008 review posts done by the 15th of December and scheduled to autopost on the 31st, but better later than never! So let’s take a brief look back at what 2008 has held for both myself and EggRage.
Achievements For 2008
Well given that we only launched in February of this year I think we’ve done pretty well for 2008, though still a pale immitation in comparison to some of the bigger blogs out there.
New Job
I moved jobs in 2008 from being a full time SEO engineer at an SEO agency to being lead web designer, and head of SEO at one of the UK’s leading extreme sports experience retailers [Extreme Element]. This was a great move for me and I’m chuffed to be working in a far more relaxed office environment, as well as being a core member of a company which has got some really bright prospects for the future.
Redesign
In August I purchased my very first theme from WooThemes and applied it to this site to expand it’s range a little bit as the previous free theme which we were using was pretty basic! I’m made very little visual modifications to the theme so far but you can expect it to get a little more ‘custom’ in 2009!
Launched Other Sites
Throughout the year I’ve launched a couple of other sites that all now growing very well, and in turn link back to EggRage to provide us with more coverage and traffic.
- Stunning CSS – A fresh new CSS gallery
- Sinflip – A blog for musicians to help them make money from music
- Digital Designer Forum – A forum for web designers and developers
Statistics
- We made 42 Posts for the year – An average of 1 post per week
- There are 5 Pages of static content across the site
- Posts are spread across 22 Categories
- There are currently 153 Tags in use
- We received 266 Comments across all posts
- Akismet caught 5,758 Spam Comments
- We received over 20,000 unique visitors
- And over 120,000 pages were viewed this year
- Just under 100 RSS Subscribers
- Firefox is the most used browser on this site with 61% of all traffic
Top 5 Posts (According To Traffic)
- How To Get 3,000+ Diggs in 24 Hours
- 7 Reasons Why You Don’t Need SEO
- Google PageRank Has Nothing To Do With Inbound Links
- 5 Essential SEO Tools To Analyse Your Site
- 5 Ways To Tell You’re With A Deadbeat SEO Company
Plans for 2009
Obviously for 2009 we want to keep EggRage going as strongly as possible and keep growing our traffic figures and subscriber numbers. There aren’t any plans set in stone yet but some of the things that we’re going to be working on are listed below.
- Minor redesign
- Advanced SEO technique screen casts
- Beginners guide to SEO E-Book
- Site-wide user polls
- Lots more guest posts
- Some interviews with industry leaders
Thank You
To all of our loyal readers for 2008 – without you guys this blog wouldn’t exist, we hope to keep you on board in 2009 and make it an even more successful year! If you have any suggestions for topics which you would like to be covered in 2009 please get in touch and let us know via our contact page.
A further thanks to all of our advertisers for 2008, and to BuySellAds for providing such a great service allowing us to sell adspace on this site. If you are interested in advertising on EggRage for 2009 please check out our advertising page and get in touch!
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