I’m a bit behind revealing my stats for 2007. There’s been a lot of illness in my family and that set me back. Everyone is good now though so here’s the growth www.14thc.com experienced last year…

• Unique Visits increased an average of 6,096 monthly over 2007
• Repeat Visits increased an average of 8,357 monthly over 2007
• Page Views increased an average of 14,235 monthly over 2007

I’m particularly proud of the Page View increase because I was consciously working on that. Page views increased by about 8,000 more per month when the redesign finally hit. If you think your choice of website designer doesn’t matter you may want to consider that.

And I’m grateful for the jump in return visits. That shows people were interested in what I had to say enough to come back for more. It seems once I get people to the site I can keep their attention. With all the work that goes into writing, editing, etc. I think that is fantastic.

So thank you.

2007 saw some interesting personal challenges as an accounting error nearly wiped me out. I was charging 95% of my cost on new projects. That was making it difficult to figure out why I was working so hard without seeing any return. My big lesson for the year was how important proper bookkeeping is. I hope you take that to heart.

Last year I also got mad at Google. A lot. As they grow in size, money and influence they bear watching. Consider what the merger with Double-Click could mean when the same company has access to your surfing habits and personal data. Consider what it means when that same company is the worlds biggest, most-used search engine and supplier of online ads… by a lot. Consider what it means when their words and actions no longer match. Or when their purpose changes from mission from “organizing the world’s information” to dictating how you create and share your information (and how to charge for it).

Remember when Microsoft was the bad guy? My how things changed in 2007.

Last year was also the year of social bookmarking. Out of theory and into practice this site went popular on several SB sites causing big spikes in traffic with lingering growth.

Thanks for your votes.

Finally, I did quite a bit of SEO experimenting, merging sites, restructuring sites and even banning search engines just to see what would happen! The answer to the banning search engine question will have to wait for another post and may surprise you.

Thank you all for a great 2007. I wish you huge success in 2008.

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