About five months ago I hit the milestone of 200 posts, after the site had been running for a year. Five months later, I’ve hit 300 total posts. Time for some comparisons to five months ago:
- The site has received 621 comments to date, averaging 2.08 per post (up 30%).
- 19920 spam comments have been filtered since the site started.
- The site now averages over 5000 unique visitors a month, or 167 a day (up 67%).
- Those visitors have over 25000 page views between them in an average month (up 127%).
- The RSS feed has 79 subscribers (up 55%).
- The average visitor looks at 3.5 pages before leaving (exactly the same as before).
- The site’s PageRank is still 3.
And some other stats:
The majority of traffic has come from search engines (61%), followed by links (25%) and then direct traffic (14%).
Traffic sources as of February 2012
37% of traffic comes from the United States, 10% from the United Kingdom, 6% from China, and the remaining 47% from 108 other countries. That means I’ve now had visitors from the majority of countries in the world (53%).
Traffic heatmap as of February 2012
Inviting guest posts
I’d really like to start including some guest posts on the site. The topic is huge: anything to do with East Asian Studies. That could be anything related to learning Chinese, Japanese or Korean (or other languages in the region), or history, politics, whatever. I’m interested in it all.
Currently the site’s pretty lacking in non-Chinese content, as China and Chinese make up the vast majority of my studies. That’s not to say that China-related guest posts wouldn’t be cool too!
Anyway, please get in contact (you can email me directly here) with a guest post submission!
If you found this useful, consider helping me out in return.
Congratualtions on your accompliment so far, Hugh!
What you’ve done for the blog in one and half years is awsome. I can’t see myself to reach your state in that short of period yet.
I’m definitely interested in writing more guest posts for your wonderful blog after my first one on Chinese grammar study.
Keep your good work up!
Grace
It’s easier than you think! Also remember that I do quite a lot of short posts, e.g. on individual hiragana or translations of a single poem.
And of course you’re very welcome to guest post again!
很高兴发现你的网站！ Actually I’ve been dreaming of having a blog focusing on East Asian languages but you’ve managed not to actually do it, but do it much better than I imagined myself doing it.
I’m not a very regular blogger but I’m interesting in helping out because we share the East Asia / CJK interest! Unfortunately if I will contribute it will mostly be information on Chinese though I’m starting to learn Korean now too.