Well, this year has been a strange and interesting one so far for the blog.

Here’s some interesting facts. The blog started in August of this year and;

Site Statistics

• I’ve gone to 64 regular subscribers in 4 months.
• I’ve been Stumbled, Dugg, Reddit, and Dugg about 3 dozen times so far.
• I’ve got an average daily page-hit of 100+ now.
• The most page-hits I’ve had in a month is ~6000.
• I’ve posted about 95 articles.
• I’ve got a Technorati authority of 53 and reactions of 143 blogs and a rank of 143,900
• I’ve got a Google pagerank of 1 (woohoo, I’ve been noticed!).
• I’ve got about 200 pages indexed with Google and my search engine traffic is around 6-7% of all traffic.

Networking/Social

• I’ve been invited into the M-Network annex
• I’ve made friends with around a dozen PF bloggers
• I’ve joined Facebook, StumbleUpon, Digg, Reddit and a number of other social bookmark sites.

Personal

• I’ve changed the web site look-feel three times (finally settled down to one theme).
• I’ve started accepting advertising, but have already had to reject one advertiser for payday loans.
• Because of the concentration on personal finance, I’ve maxed out my 401k, my emergency fund is over $12,000 and no credit card I currently have has an interest rate over 10%
• I have closed 23 credit card accounts, and have 3 more that I have left open with zero balances.
• I’ve paid off both cars.
• My available assets have increased to over $100,000.
• My retirement investments last year gained by 25%.

It’s been a fairly turbulent year, but good overall for the site, myself, and my family. I’d like to thank the M-Network gang (and annex) for their help, friendship, and ideas/pointers. It’s been a great help.

Happy New Year!!

Photo by Amelungc