Sat, April 25, 2009
The First FFS Blog Blogoversary
It seems only right to take a moment for brief reflection on the occasion of our first blogoversary!
I continue to be surprised by the number of people finding their way here; lately it’s been approaching 5,000 a month. Much of the traffic seems accidental, but about 20% of the site visitors appear to be “regulars” according to Comcast. Although most traffic is from North America, my analytics have clocked a fair number of visitors from India, Singapore, Australia, and China, too. The number of people viewing the site from business ISPs in the financial industry is really intriguing; readers at Merrill Lynch, Fidelity, H&R Block, UBS, Charles Schwab, Edward D. Jones, Wachovia, Salomon, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan Chase, Credit Suisse, Citicorp and Lehman (maybe the last two aren’t so surprising!) are all represented.
I’m writing well above three posts a week, which is 50% more than I anticipated at the start. Because the last year has been so eventful, there’s been no lack of interesting financial news to write about. I’ve tried to combine commentary with educational material whenever possible.
My primary purpose in writing the blog has been to provide timely information for my clients and to build up a store of informative articles that I can point people to when they have questions about personal finance. It’s been gratifying to see people unexpectedly linking to specific posts that they’ve found helpful. I’ve noticed some financial bulletin boards latching onto items that I hadn’t expected to attract so much attention.
Thanks to all of you who’ve provided suggestions for post ideas, and to all who’ve offered helpful feedback and questions, and suggestions. It often takes me a while to get around to using an idea, but I appreciate them all. Thanks to all of you who regularly subscribe to the blog via Feedblitz, and via NetworkedBlogs/Facebook. In addition to acknowledging Alastair Halliday, who encouraged me to consider writing this blog in the first place, I’d like to thank David Merkel of the alephblog.com, who has kindly taken time to respond whenever I’ve had blogging-related questions. Finally, I’m very thankful to God that my efforts have been successful thus far.
I hope the blog continues to be useful to my readers (especially those who are my clients), and if you have suggestions, please send them to me: FFSBlog “at” FFSCambridge “dot” com.