I wanted to take a minute to thank everyone that has subscribed to eXtra for Every Publisher’s RSS feed. This site went live July 16th, 2007, and in a little over two months, I now have over one hundred people wanting to read what I write and that to me is really amazing. It shows just how powerful the community is and that there is room in any niche if you have experience, a message, and passion.

I hope that everyone that reads this site, via RSS or by stopping by, is enjoying the content I am producing. I will be working on some tips on how I got to where I am today, as well as some more details on monetizing your blogs, avoiding the echo chamber and continuing to work on ways to promote other great bloggers in this and other niches.

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Originally posted on September 21, 2007 @ 6:11 pm

While on the most recent episode of the BloggerTalk.tv podcast with Jeff of Jeffro2pt0, he mentioned a site called the Reader Appreciation Project, and the great posts on the site made me think about my own systems for appreciating readers, and I came to a simple conclusion for Xfep.com.

Once a month, I am going to pick two people that have commented on this blog, and feature their site. Not only am I going to link to them, and talk about why I chose them, but I am also going to follow their link and talk about their site. It could be another blog like this one. It could be totally unrelated, but I believe that someone that takes the time to comment on a blog deserves some sort of pat on the back, and I hope by featuring not only the URL of the people that comment, but going beyond that to the site they have, I can foster a community here, and hopefully, introduce you all to some amazing products, services and blogs.

I will be doing my first Commenter Appreciation post tomorrow. So if you haven’t commented on Xfep.com before. Now would be a good time, as it could mean getting your site critiqued or featured.

Originally posted on September 19, 2007 @ 8:07 pm

I just wanted to take a minute to express my awe and excitement over August’s stats for this site. This site began in the middle of July, and has only been around for a month and a half. During the two weeks in July, the site only received 272 unique visitors. Things sure have surged since then.

So many people told me not to take on this project because their are numerous high profile people already in this niche, but I knew that my experiences were unique, and that some of the things I have learned might help others either achieve their dreams in blogging, or realize before they over committed that blogging for money wasn’t for them.

I am not sure if I have really helped anyone yet, but it seems that you all like what I have been saying, and that really excites me.

Raw Stats

Without further adieu, here are the August stats as reported by Awstats:
5,008 Unique Visitors
17,889 Page Views
713.94 MB Bandwidth Usage
Visitors were mostly from the USA, Europe and Canada.
For search engine hits, it went MSN, then Google, and then Yahoo.

Popular Posts

My five most popular articles in order of traffic received were:
Mistakes in Design: Problogger.net
Con’s of Being a Problogger
The Five P’s of Improving Your About Page
Blogger Doesn’t Mean English Major
Text Link Ads

Traffic Sources

My two biggest sources of traffic were StumbleUpon and Copyblogger.

RSS Subscribers

According to FeedBurner, the highest my subscription rates went was 48 subscribers, and it is currently hovering around the mid-low forties. This is up from 11 subscribers on August 3rd. Over 50% of my RSS readers are using one of Google’s feed related services, with another 20% using Bloglines, my RSS reader of choice.

Originally posted on September 3, 2007 @ 7:27 am