Traveling Project’s One Year Anniversary

Time flies!  I didn’t realize that last month, in April, it was this blog’s one year anniversary.  To be more specific April 19, 2008 was the official start of the blog when I registered the domain name;  although my first post was made the following day on April 20, 2008.  I don’t remember, but I guess it took me a whole day to setup the domain, get WordPress installed and configured, and all the other neat stuff that goes with bringing up a travel blog.

Reflecting back on my first year I would have to say it was a success with many bumps in the road.  The goal of this blog when I first brought it online was to generate income to help me travel more by posting about my travel experiences and general topics about travel.  Well, one year later I have to say that the blog did generate a modest amount of income for it’s first year;  in fact you’d probably be surprised if I went back and calculated the total income it generated the first year. Although it did generate income, it still wasn’t enough to cover all my travel plans for the whole year to be honest. Something I know will take time as the blog grows.

I do expect the blog to become even more successful this year and for many years to follow with a little more discipline on my end.  Some of the features I planned for the blog on a regular basis sort of died down for no apparent reason other than I got a bit lazy at times.  One example was the monthly income reports and updating the “Project Income” page for my readers to follow how much this blog made.  After the first few months I realized the blog wasn’t generating a steady amount of income to really keep this section updated, and once the blog did start generating income I never really got back to updating it.

So for this next year, I made a promise to myself to fine tune the blog, and to keep up with more frequent updates than in the past. I’m going to think about new ways to keep this blog interesting and let you guys know in a few days!

I’ve got to know many of the blog’s readers through comments or through emails; and by the growing amount of responses/comments I get as time goes by I know the blog is getting more popular with each passing moment. This makes me excited for what the future holds and for the people/friends I will meet on this project’s journey; so if your reading this blog please say “hi” by posting a comment and wish the blog a Happy First Anniversary! Don’t be a stranger.