AC Benchmark – 100,000 Pageviews

I’ve been writing at Associated Content for quite a while – since December 2006.  I’ve had bouts of creativity and long droughts without writing. But, it’s always easy to just pick up where I left off and start writing again.

Interestingly, some of those old articles still pick up plenty of pageviews each month.  An article I wrote about stamina food in WoW in October 2007 is still getting 4-500 hits a month.  Intriguing, considering the information in the article is completely outdated now that WotLK came out. Another article, about gemming for Paladins, gets even more hits… even though was completely outdated months before WotLK was released.

Thanks in no small part to these successful articles, I’ve surpassed the 100k mark for page views.

If you’re interested in any of my newer articles – on topics as varied as Fallout 3, buying computer parts, and fixing steam radiator systems – check out the RSS feed I just added to the sidebar.

Creating a Portfolio…

Although I tried to keep my blog moving through the new year, it just didn’t happen.  Now that classes have started with Rutgers, I’m working feverishly on the yearbook, and I’m constantly after school tutoring students, I just don’t have the time or energy to devote to daily or regular blogging.

The solution I came up with a few weeks ago was to shift my efforts from a singular blog to a multitude of “mini-sites.”  The first of these was about tax credits and tax benefits for higher education.

Although I’m pleased with the site, I neglected the promotion part of things.  I didn’t plan on promoting it a ton, but I did plan on writing some articles on AC, posting some articles elsewhere, and building up a small link profile to the site.  Again, real life intervened and I lost momentum shortly after the site went up.

This portfolio is now an attempt to refocus myself on these mini-sites.  It won’t be regularly updated like my old blogs.  It will simply be updated when I do some work on an existing project (like Education Tax Credits) or start working on a new project.

In a month or so, I should have a pretty healthy amount of free time.  I’ve got some ideas floating around, and hopefully that free time can turn into some productivity.