October Recap And A Big Thank You

Before we get into all the links - I’d like to send a big “thank you” to all Nusuni Dot Com readers and anyone who has linked to it or otherwise helped it grow. During October, Nusuni Dot Com experienced some absolutely AMAZING growth! It is quite astonishing - and it won’t be long until it starts to compete with some of the big blogs out there. Ok… fine… it’ll be a while until that happens - but this month has definitely given me a bunch of hope as a blogger.

And, all of this occurred despite the fact this month really hasn’t had my best posts. I apologize for being a bit… errr… lazy. Basically I’ve been finishing up a content management system which I am thinking about either selling or open sourcing. In addition, my personal life has been a bit hectic and such. In November you can expect to see much higher quality posts and I will be going all out with promotion.

I really don’t like posting raw numbers, so here’s some charts. The first one is the feed circulation chart, and the second is for page views and unique hits:

I like the direction that is going

That is probably one of the ugliest traffic charts you’ll ever see - in a nutshell in March I got hit with several high traffic stumble attacks, and July and August were inflated due to social media as well (September was pretty much 100% non-social media traffic). October… well… heh. It basically towers over every other month.

So, please keep linking to articles, subscribing, etc. November will definitely be a harder month to keep the growth going since I don’t have any major script releases planned for it (which accounted for roughly 20% of October’s traffic). I’m also getting busier with other projects as well, so all help is greatly, greatly appreciated.

My overall goal with November is to start monetizing it more, promote it better, write better, and to start more engaging conversations. My guess is it will have 30-50% more subscribers (it’s a big range, but very achievable), and it will have a traffic increase of 50%.

So, without further delay - here are some of the best posts from October:

• 5 Ways To Make Your Computer Use Less Energy And Last Longer
• 2 Weeks Of Blocking Google Image Search - The Results
• End Of Back To The Basics
• The Four Dimensions of A Link Portfolio
• 9 Ways To Improve Your Link Portfolio (thanks again for those two excellent posts, Ryan!)
• Three Unique Uses Of WordPress Tags
• How I Overcame The Fear Of “No”
• 5 Of The Biggest Blog Promotion Mistakes I’ve Made
• Is It Possible To Succeed Without Google Search Traffic?
• How To Become A Lean, Mean, Writing Machine
• A Little Bit Of Info About Myself… (those are serious questions people have asked me via e-mail and IM)
• Last Minute Notes On Blogging In General

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