It has been a year since this blog was started, and has been an exciting ride to say the least. Since the beginning of the blog and January 1 are so closed together I think I’ll just join the two post themes as they are pretty much the same thing.
Lets start with the top posts of this last year.
Top Posts of 2009
- Online Japanese Music Radio Stations
- How to Learn Japanese
- 5 Ways to Use Subtitles to Learn Japanese
- Who Are the Ainu
- Top 10 Japanese Tongue Twisters
- Japanese Verb Conjugation Te-Form
- Butt Attack Punisher Girl Gotaman
- Kenichi the Mightiest Disciple English Audio First Impressions
- Top 9 Japanese Language Blogs
- 5 Centimeters Per Second First Anime I Didn’t Like
Top Post Thoughts
I’ll tell you a couple of these are a bit odd to have at the top. I am curios where so many people hear about “Butt Attack Punisher Girl Gotaman”. I know the Anime World Order podcast did a review, but I can’t imagine it is all from them.
The others I can see, but the Kenichi really makes me wonder too about where the advertising is for it. I really am curios where people see advertisements or hear about this anime from because I never hear about it from anyone but myself.
Stats of 2009
- February: 672
- March: 978
- April: 1,497
- May: 7,495
- June: 6,575
- July: 5,774
- August 8,126:
- September: 8,186
- October: 9,546
- November: 10,544
- December: 8,210
262 RSS Subscribers
Stats Thoughts
I started out doing pretty low traffic numbers, but am excited at how well I did for my only real advertising being via twitter, but what really threw me up high in April, and I have to give credit to my Japanese teacher for, was the Top 10 Japanese Tongue Twisters. I had asked if she knew them and she later came back with a printout of them, from goo. It was linked to on a site from Hungary and got over 1100 pageviews in one day. From there things went fairly well traffic wise since Google finally noticed me at that point.
On the subscriber count I’ll be honest that I am amazed at how many I got in 1 years time. I don’t know how I got so high to be honest. I know that I got 50 or so from alafista linking me, but the rest I am not to sure. I am every so thankful and appreciative people think my site is nice enough to even subscribe to. If you don’t know what RSS is please read this post to find out more A Primer on RSS.
General Thoughts
First I want to say thank you to all those who have visited and commented it means a lot to me. When I first started I had no idea how long I was going to blog for or even how useful I could/it would be. Since people felt enough to leave comments, subscribe, and revisit I take it I was able to be of some use.
Content wise I didn’t know how long this blog could go before I started I was asking others to co-author the blog with me because I didn’t know if I could ever come up with enough content or good content. Things started off rocky for the first few months, but around June or July I found some focus and a direction to take things and that is where quality started going up from readers hopefully because the blogs quality went up.
2010 Goals
It has been an adventure and I have learned a lot about blogging. However, this is only the beginning I feel confident since it has been a year that there is no reason not to continue. So here are a couple of goals for the next year in no particular order.
- Continue to improve quality of content
- Try to build a tighter community here and in J-Blogosphere
- Review more books
- Increase readership and subscribers
- Do more history posts
If you have any suggestions or comments good or bad please let me know and leave a comment. I am constantly looking for ways to improve so please help me out if you can.
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congrats on your first year blogging, it took me quite a while to settle in and find my focus on my blog as well.
All the best in your second year blogging!
One year of blogging is awesome. congrats!