This post is about my blog, zemalf.com, which I started on May 21st of 2009. I decided to write this here on my posterous, since this another channel for me. An extension of what I do. Extended commentary if you will.

41 Weeks Later

It's March 3rd 2010. My blog at zemalf.com is about 9 and 1/2 months old. Today I reached one milestone when the RSS subscriber count passed 300.

That's not completely true, since FeedBurner counts FriendFeed followers as subscribers as I syndicate my feed there, so the true count is around 170-180.

Anyway. I'm quite pleased with that number. At the beginning of this year the blog had 200 subscribers. So in just two months I increased the subcriber count by 50%.

How Did I Do This?

300 subscribers in 9 months is nothing spectacular, there are blogs that have reached thousands upon thousands subscribers and daily readers by this time. But this is my blog. This is my first real blog.

My gaming blog has been there since 2005, but I never put effort into that like I have done now.

So 300 subscribes is kinda big deal to me.

And I did all this through two things.

1. networking, blog commenting, forums and friends
2. content. quite a bit of it.

Here's what has happend on the blog during the last 9 months

• I have written 127 blog posts to zemalf.com
• Average word count for those posts is 1386
• That is 176037 words
• About 14 posts per month
• Over 730 comments have been posted on zemalf.com
• Contributing nearly 42000 words of additional content to the blog
• 3 guest bloggers have posted 1 post each on zemalf.com
• Totalling the word count of the site to 181k
• And the total number of posts to 130

If you're interested in traffic stats, they are public at: SeeTheStats for zemalf (during the first 41 weeks I had about about 23k visits which averages roughly to 2400 per month). Again, nothing spectacular, but it still feels pretty awesome that over 20000 people have read my stuff.

For Those About the BLOG, I Salute You

I've met awesome people through blogging and without them I would have not been able to have such a good time during the last 9 months than I did now.

thank you for reading my blog, thank you for subscribing, thank you for blogging and teaching me amazing things, thank you for helping me to keep going, thank you for saying hi to me on Twitter, commenting on my blog, emailing me...

It's been a great ride and it's just getting started...

Blogging with You, To You

Every day I learn something. And I enjoy sharing what I know, helping others.

That is why I started blogging and that is why I continue blogging.

Without others, there wouldn't be blogging.

Without you, I wouldn't be blogging

I could have not done this without you.

I would have not done this without you.

So once more...

...thank you.

Find the blog at zemalf.com