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Persistance Pays

Last Updated June 1, 2009 by Matt Leave a Comment

In April I made a commitment to try to post at least once a day, and since then I’ve seen great increases in quality on my blog in all sorts of areas: my writing, creativity, people’s comments and interaction with my posts, and blog traffic. Although I did miss two days this month, I almost made my streak of one post per day (although I did make 33 posts, so it averages out to a little more than one per day). In case you missed it, here are some stats from the month of May on the blog.

Most popular posts this month:

  • The Ultimate Ubiquitous Capture Device?
  • Youth Ministry Compensation
  • How I Built a Church Website for Free: Picking a WordPress Theme
  • 13 Reasons Why (Traditional) Seminaries are Irrelevant (For Church Leaders): Part 1
  • How I Built a Church Website for Free: WordPress Plugins

Website stats compared to April:

  • Unique Visitor Increase: 100%
  • RSS Subscriber Increase: 28%
  • Visits Increase: 90%
  • Pageviews Increase: 69%

Thanks to these sites for sending me the most traffic (aside from google, twitter, and facebook):

  • Moleskinerie.com
  • Shaungroves.com
  • Smalltownyouthpastor.com
  • Deliciousdays.com
  • Erikullestad.blogspot.com

Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the conversation recently. Some of the comments have been really great, and that’s what makes blogging so interesting and fruitful. I hope you it will continue!

And those of you who lurk (I know you’re out there, because you’ve told me), leave a comment already! I’d love to hear what you have to say.

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