Its now been two months since I officially relaunched my blog at Ideas For Women. Actually, it was 2 months 2 days ago, but I was too busy to stop by here and write anything then.

For anyone recently joining in - this blog is where I am writing about what I want to accomplish with another blog of mine: http://www.ideasforwomen.com/news/. Ideally what I would like is to start a small blog network on that domain. But from reading Darren’s “A Strategy for Building Niche Focused Blog Networks” the first thing I need to do is work on my traffic levels on the first blog.

So what have I accomplished in the past 2 months? Back on April 23rd I set some goals for where I want to be in six months (now 4 months). I would like to have 1000 Feedburner subscribers and around 5-10 comments on average per post in six months (I originally said 10-15 comments per post, but I think that sounds like a lot now.).

I now have a lot more subscribers than I had, but I still have a long way to go. I don’t know if I will make it to 1000 or not in 4 months. Not only did I add a really big subscribe button in an obvious place, but I also added the FeedButton and a subscribe by email link. I haven’t had many email subscribers yet, which leads me to one of the various things I’ve had on my mind lately.

I suspect most of my readers at this point are also bloggers. I’m basing this on the fact that most people commenting leave a link. I love that I have other bloggers reading my blog, but eventually I will need people without blogs reading here too. I guessing that non-bloggers are less likely to understand what subscribing to a blog means too. I should add something to my blog explaining it.

I’m getting quite a few more comments too, but it seems they come more often on posts where I’ve linked to other bloggers, rather than on posts where I’ve actually written something more substantial. I hope that changes too.

One cool thing though - I’m reviewing a book that was sent to me on Thursdays and the author of the book has stopped by and commented a couple of times! She says she likes how I am writing about her book!

I have a whole list of things planned to help build up my traffic levels. I am also working on a redesign for the site which I hope to start testing on the 4th of July weekend. I’m really excited about that! I even have a little tag line - although its kind of long and not real catchy it describes what I want the site to be.

Hopefully in another month my subscriber numbers will have picked some!

(I see the archives on this blog are not working now - I’ll have to see what that’s about)