Today is an important day for TechWalls as this blog has turned 1 year old now. Actually TechWalls is 1 year and 7 day old at the time of publishing this post, I could not celebrate the anniversary on time because of busy work this week. TechWalls was officially founded on February 9th, 2011 and the first anniversary marks a very meaningful milestone of the tech blog.
Up till now, I still cannot believe that TechWalls could reach some specific successes within its first year. In the first 4 months launching this blog, I did not expect much and just considered this as my secondary blog. I spent less than 30 minutes per day to check its status and write new blog posts as TechWalls started with very short posts, that was my intention to make them short because I thought people tend to not spend much time on reading nowadays. And the result is my traffic increased day by day significantly, however, that was low quality traffic. I realized that the average time on page was always less than 10s while bounce rate never went under 90%. Those are the reasons why I changed the strategy and started producing longer content. The change has brought positive results in just 2 months.
TechWalls started gaining more readers and then reached some goals I set for 2011, including ranking stats and revenue. It turned from my secondary blog to the main one after I realized its potential. One year is not a long period but I’ve found many difficulties in maintaining a blog throughout a year, especially since I began publishing new post everyday. Fortunately, TechWalls became a multi-author blog and at the moment, there are always at least 3 authors writing new blog posts for this blog. This adjustment reduces my workload significantly and diversifies the content here at the same time. If you can contribute good content and interested in writing for us, join our writer team anytime.
There are some facts that I find interesting in the first year of TechWalls and I also want to let our readers know:
- Total Pageviews: 464,091 pageviews.
- Total Visitors: 339,856 visits.
- Traffic reached a peak on September 20, 2011 when the post compare Samsung Galaxy Note and iPhone 5 got featured on many forums.
- Total Posts: 292 posts.
- Total Comments: 1,064 comments.
- The most viewed and commented post: Use 3G USB on Asus Transformer.
- Google Adsense was the only revenue source in the first 6 months.
- SocialSpark is now the best revenue source for TechWalls.
- It is not Firefox but Chrome is the favorite web browser that our readers use.
- Apple iPad and iPhone are the most popular mobile devices accessing this blog.
- This blog used an ugly Genesis child theme but I kept it for a long time because of high CTR on Adsense ads. The current theme is from WooThemes and it looks much friendlier to readers.
What do you think about our development and what changes should we implement to make TechWalls better? Please comment below to let us know, we appreciate all your suggestions.
Michael Aulia @CravingTech.com says
Congratulations, Tuan! Honestly, I thought TechWalls is much older than that – feels like a really well established blog :)
Glad to still have you on board, friend… most techie blogs die after a few months heh heh
Tuan Do says
Thanks Michael,
Blogging would be very boring without relationships with other bloggers. I always have a passion on blogging as many people like you are very successful. It inspires me more to continue the way I choose. :)
Michael Aulia @CravingTech.com says
That’s great to hear!
PrIyAnGsHu @ Tech Blog says
Congrats to TechWalls for becoming 1-year old and achieving some great milestones within just 1 year. Although, my blog is also going to be 1 year old this April but haven’t achieved as much things as you did since it was initially hosted on Blogger. But I have recently migrated to WordPress and this move has now started giving me positive results. I hope I will be able to achieve all my goals which I have set for 2012 !Once again, happy 1st anniversary to TechWalls :D ! By the way Tuan, are you going to organise any party for the same ? If yes, the don’t forget to invite me :P !
Tuan Do says
Thanks a lot, PrIyAnGsHu.
Absolutely I will invite you when I have an anniversary party here. At the moment, TechWalls is too small and authors come from different parts of the world, so it is impossible to invite them to join. Maybe I will hire in-house writers some time in the future, that’s what I expect. :D
Your blog is so new but it’s been well-known already, I can’t imagine how big it is in the 1st anniversary. Good luck, mate.
PrIyAnGsHu @ Tech Blog says
Well, to be frank, my blog is not so new ! It was started in April of the last year but the only thing which is quite new is my domain as well as my platform :D !
Dev says
Congratulations on the awesome achievements, Tuan. I really like your current design, it looks awesome.
Keep up the good work, mate.
PrIyAnGsHu @ Tech Blog says
Yeah, I’m also in LOVE with the design and theme of TechWalls :D !
emory @ clickfire says
Congratulations on the speedy success, Tuan. It’s been nice watching you grow over the past year. More good years ahead :)
Justin Germino says
Congrats on the anniversary and you have very impressive 1 year numbers to show off.
[email protected] Tips says
Congo Tuan, Hope to see TechWalls reach more milestones in future. :)
Ileane says
Well done Tuan. Congratulations on year #1 and many more to come. I really like the new theme but I wish to see CommentLuv Premium on the blog one day. I’m sure you have your reasons, but that’s still my wish.
Best wishes!
Tuan Do says
Thanks for your nice words, Ileane.
That’s great to have you on board since my first days blogging. I love the CommentLuv Premium so much but its price is quite high for me now ($67 for a single version). As I need to balance other expenses as well, I will wait for a discount program to purchase the plugin. :)