I started blogging again a week ago. Since then, I’ve talked a lot about blogging, being happy with it, and I even had my blog reviewed! I had taken some time off, and I needed it to realize how much I really do enjoy this. Right now, there’s no way I could do this full time, but it’s fun and definitely keeps me occupied. Since I started, here’s some stats from the beginning of the month until yesterday:
- 164 page views
- 103 Visits
- 92.23% of those visits are new people
- Most visitors are coming from Facebook, Twitter, Google, and TentBlogger.com
Truthfully, the numbers aren’t that impressive, but that’s ok!
For most, it takes time to build up viewers. I’m here for the long haul and anxious for what the future holds.
Speed is important. If a visitor comes to your site and everything takes forever to load, do you think they’re going to want to come back? Your content had better be good because if it’s not, no one is going to wait on your slow blog. It just doesn’t work that way. Humans are naturally impatient. Waiting doesn’t work.
When I saw the opportunity to have 
Optimizing your database is an increasingly popular way to speed up your blog. The concept is really simple: over time, your
really fast, and I won’t lie, it was hard making an attempt to keep up with staffed blogs like Engadget, Gizmodo, and Lifehacker. I’m a one man team with one man’s resources. After several months of awesome blogging fun, I quit one day. I logged in to the WordPress Dashboard and the steam was gone one day. It wasn’t fun for me anymore and I wasn’t getting anything out of it. Anything monetary, any feedback, any anything! It was just another one of those blogs you might stumble across one day. The kind with an enthusiastic author, but no audience.