End of the 2007, bring on 2008!
Well it’s the end of 2007 and it’s been a pretty good year, but instead of doing what every other blogger has done and write an entry on what’s happened this year I’ve decided to write a blog on what I’d like to see happen next year with my blog. I’m going to keep this short and simple as its New Years Eve and I’m getting ready to go out and play a round of golf.Anyway, lets get this little list started.
More Traffic - my average has been around 80 uniques a day, though I’ve had a few spikes of 400 a day throughout the year. I’d like a modest rise to an average of around 200 - 250 per day
More Subscribers - at the moment it varies, one day I have 30 the following I have 4. I’d love there to be atleast 100 subscribers to my RSS feed
More Advertising Revenue - currently I’m making around $10 AUD a month from the advertising on this blog. Those little ads at the end of each entry and the other ads on the right hand side of the blog, well if you click them and buy something or even sign up to your own Widgetbucks, Bidvertizer or Google Adsense account I make a few dollars, and so can you. I’d like to get that well above $100 a month.
More Links - I get a handful of incoming links each day, basically these are where other bloggers link my posts in there blogs. I’d love to be getting quite a few per day, this will also help get more traffic too.
Higher Page Rank - Google has a little algorithm which ranks different websites / pages on their relevancy, basically this Page Rank helps their search engine weed out the spam and what not. Currently my page rank is 0, though if you enter this site through www.mpimagery.com then I have a PR of 3. I’d love to increase my Page Rank in 2008, 5-6 would be really nice.
More Content - all of the above is achievable if I’m providing new and original content, particularly the sort of content that people want to read. So basically this part is completely up to me and only me, hopefully I can do it and if I can it’ll influence all of the above ‘wants’..
So now that you’ve read what I’d like to get done next year, tell me what are you hoping to achieve in 2008?
Anyway, I’m about to head out to golf and hopefully have a better game than I did yesterday. So have a fantastic New Years everyone and I’ll catch you next year.
Cheers Matt!
It’s Fireworks time!!
Well it’s that time of year when everything is very, very festive, there’s houses lit up everywhere with Christmas lights and if you followed the tutorial over at Strobist you should have some fantastic Christmas light photos now.
In a couple of days Christmas will be over and New Years will be rapidly approaching, and you know what that means BIG BIG Fireworks!!My good mate Tim Christie has worked in the pyrotechnic industry for a while and being a great photographer he’s naturally photographed a bunch of the displays he’s worked on. Tim and I have had a few conversations in the past about the best ways to photograph fireworks and being the great guy he is he’s gone and written a tutorial on how to photograph fireworks! Talk about good timing!
Anyway, head on over to Tim’s website and have a good read of his tutorial on How To Photograph Fireworks!
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