Dear Blog

Hello! Time for another update. Yesterday, Kenny pointed out this post on Chitika, titled "Help me, my mom is my blog's only reader!" by Darren Rowse from Problogger.net. The title itself made me want to read the article, not to mention Darren Rowse makes six figures a year from his blog(s). Here's a quote from his article describing his personal experience:

When I first started blogging, I had romantic notions of an incoming rush of traffic hitting my blog. A couple of months in I began to realize that that wasn’t going to happen. I remember the light going on in my mind one day - the rush of traffic just wasn’t going to ‘appear’. Of course there was a trickle of traffic that did just ‘appear’ - but if I wanted traffic in large numbers I was going to have to find some way of going and getting it.

For those of you that have been following along with my blog, it is now almost 2 months old; I launched it initially on 03/06/07. Luckily, the recent traffic my blog has been receiving has not only fulfilled my "romantic notions," but has far exceeded them. Perhaps my "romantic notions" are not grand enough, but I was hoping to reach 1000 unique visitors in one day by the time my blog becomes 1 year old. However, this last week blew away that goal; currently I have an average of 1,500 visitors and 2,600 page views per day. My single best day received 5,000 visitors and 8,000 page views.

I'm not here to brag about my site stats. On the contrary, I'm here to express my gratitude to you, my readers. I'd also like to thank StumbleUpon for driving so much traffic to my blog. I had a couple of my posts "featured," which lead to massive spikes in my traffic. Without StumbleUpon, I would surely be amongst the rank of blogs where my mother would be my only reader. But what's worse is that my mom isn't too good with English, so I'm not sure that even my own mother would be reading my blog.

I know that a large portion of that traffic will probably only see my blog once in their lifetime, so I'm mostly here to address my returning visitors. Seeing all of these huge numbers only makes blogging that much more fun for me. Hopefully after visiting my blog, you'll have at least smiled once, laughed once, or learned something new. Once again, thank you for visiting my blog.

Sincerely,
Michael Hwang

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