Three Years

I’m all smiles today, as I reflect on three years of blogging at web-strategist.com.

Although I’ve been blogging about web strategy previously on Blogspot, Yahoo 360 for a few years prior, things really started to get serious when I launched this domain.

Over the three years, the technorati rank of this blog has settled around the 500 range (the lower the better) and it’s unlikely it will drop lower as I’m not a news breaking site, or have a team of writers like many of the top 100.

What’s worked for me? Pay yourself first. I put in a lot of passion, and read and blog nearly every morning (It’s 3:51am right now) before I check any email (which is paying someone else), have an editorial calendar, and am slowly writing drafts (there are 413 of them right now) each day as I collect little bits of information, or get ideas. I’ve learned to integrate the blog into many of my communications as a central hub, then use the social tools to pollinate and let the blog disperse to other locations.

Perhaps the best thing is that this has become more of a collaboration between us because we as a community are learning from each other. Although I’ve written 2,292 posts in these three years, yet there have been 42,694 comments and trackbacks, nearly 20 voices to my one. I still read every single comment, and skim most blog incoming blog posts, I learn a lot –especially when you don’t agree, or put me in check.

I really look forward to the next few years, thank you for being here with me and talking and learning with me. Thanks you for making this a fun project that turned into a career for me, let’s continue to share both ways.

45 Replies to “Three Years”

  1. Happy birthday!
    and thanks for sharing your ideas, knowledge, insights, passion with all of us!
    L.

  2. Jeremiah,

    I’ve only just started following you, and digesting all your thought provoking perspectives. I’m on a steep learning curve, and it’s refreshing to read this rumination.

    Have a happy third birthday – to think you’re just a toddler!

  3. Congrats Jeremiah! Forget the technorati 500 — you can be super proud of yourself in terms of the ‘social’ impact your blog has :-).

    And thanks for the “What™s worked for me ..”. Great tips and worth following. I too have realized (sometimes painfully and frustratingly) that our thoughts are fleeting and our neurons not as well connected as it may seem — a brilliant thought while driving to work sometimes get lost by the next day unless it is jotted down somewhere.

    Again, congrats and fantastic job with this blog.

  4. happy b(log) day! mazel tov! after paying yourself first, its time to give yourself a first raise.

  5. Thank you Jeremiah.

    I think one of the best things I could have done to try and stay on top of the trends and ideas around social media was to add your column to my iGoogle home page. It is one of the first things I look at and have learned a great deal from your posts as well as others insightful comments along the way.

    So thanks again to you and the others that share their ideas here.

    Regards,
    Patrick

  6. Jeremiah,

    Love your work man. My idea of a pefect evening – kids in bed, spotify on the headphones and reading your visionary stuff 🙂 This is such an exciting time in terms of the web, a far bigger wave than the e-commerce one IMO.

    Keep it coming.

    Best

    Rooven

  8. Happy birthday!
    and thanks for sharing your ideas, knowledge, insights, passion with all of us!
    L.

Comments are closed.