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Photo by urban_dataSince it’s the beginning of a new month, I will do a progress report of the SMART blogging goals I set this blog for this year. I’ll recap each goal as I go along together with the progress and current standing of each goal.

Posting Frequency
Before the B-monster caught up with me towards the end of 2007, I was comfortably doing 3 postings per week. Ever since, I must admit I didn’t quite recover from the blockage and even setting this goal as a respond to reawaken the writer in me didn’t quite produce the desired effect so far. Instead of progressing and increasing on posting frequencies, this area has been on a regress. Celebrations for my birthday and the Chinese Lunar New Year in early February didn’t exactly help the cause but I will not take those as excuses.

Interim result: Thumbs down

Average Daily Unique Visitors
When a blog don’t consistently publish quality content or killer posts, it cannot expect to attract and increase its unique visitors’ count. This is exactly what is happening to this blog at this point, in fact, the daily unique visitors in February averages 30, another regress compared to the previous months’ averages. My target of getting 100 daily unique visitors on average for the whole year of 2008 seems like a steep mountain to climb at this point.

Interim result: Thumbs down

RSS subscribers
This is another sore point to report as you can well imagine the RSS subscriber base is not going to improve with limited postings and the content mostly crap (as confessed in the above 2 points)!

Interim result: Thumbs down

Alexa Ranking
At the time I set those blogging goals, the blog’s alexa rank was 163k+ and I’m happy to report that the current alexa rank has improved to 140k+. My goal is to hit below 100k by July 2008, so there’s still some way to go.

Interim result: Thumbs up

Google PageRank
This blog didn’t get ranked during the last PageRank update but the latest update indicated a forward leap to PR4! This piece of good news came a few days after this blog crossed the 6 months mark and is the only bright spark out of the various gloomy interim results posted above.

Interim result: Thumbs up

Posting this interim progress report provided me with mix feelings about my blogging venture. It certainly gave me a clear perspective of where I stand, how well (or crappy) I’m doing with the blog, and I ended up asking more questions (as in more doubts) rather than answering the critics (I’m my biggest critics).

As I mentioned above, this blog just crossed the 6 months mark (24th Feb) and I’ve already lost the momentum that started this blog and at times during the last month, I felt I was blogging in a vacuum. I won’t deny the thought of giving up or just fading into oblivion ever cross my mind.

The fact that I’m making this interim progress report shows that letting go is a hard to do and I will stick around some more, especially after getting some encouraging comments and a seal of approval from the big G itself. Now I need to buck up and strive for the seal of approval from the community of fellow bloggers and readers without whom this blog’s main purpose will be rendered meaningless.

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