2007: A Great Year of Photography and Blogging
By Brian Auer • January 1st, 2008
WOW — 2007 was great! I started up the blog in mid-January last year, and it’s been an awesome experience since that time. I had been involved with photography a few years prior to the blog, but nothing like that of the last year. The blog has caused me to really focus on my photography and building relationships with other photographers and photography bloggers. All in all it’s been great, and I wouldn’t give it up for anything. A BIG THANKS to everyone who sticks around, reads the articles, links to the blog, makes comments, and especially to those with whom I’ve become friends (you know who you are).
This blog has grown far larger than I had ever expected. In the course of a year, we’ve had over 825,000 pageviews, 513,000 visitors, and 443,000 unique visitors! That’s a lot of people. The blog has a PageRank of 5, an Alexa ranking of 42,139, and a Technorati ranking of 6,481! We’re up to almost 2000 subscribers (it jumped to 2001 a few days ago and dropped back down) and the site gets around 2,000 to 4,000 visitors per day on average. We’ve also had 7 articles make it to the front page of Digg (which certainly accounts for a good chunk of traffic and growth)!
So if you’re fairly new around here, check out these articles from the past. I’ve picked out two from each month (excluding January) that might be worth checking out if you haven’t seen them before.
JANUARY
Not much really happened in Jauary — I was just getting the blog off the ground and trying to learn the ropes.
FEBRUARY
MARCH
APRIL
MAY
JUNE
JULY
AUGUST
SEPTEMBER
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
NOW ON WITH 2008!!!
Brian Auer is a photography enthusiast from San Diego, California. He's also the guy behind the Epic Edits Weblog. As a hobbyist photographer since 2003, his passion has been to constantly improve his photography skill set, to share his own knowledge with others, and to become an integral part of the photographic community.
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I’m so glad I found this blog. It has been one of my best finds of the year. I look forward to 2008!
I’m so glad you found it too! I always enjoy seeing your comments here and over on Flickr.
Brian congratulations on a great 2007. I hope that 2008 proves to be an even better year for you. This is the one blog I’m really happy to have found this year. I’ve met a lot of great people through it and enjoyed many of the great articles you’ve put together. I look forward to checking in frequently through out the year.
Thanks Jim! Same to you! I think we’re both in for a big one this year, with lots of new people and the great interactions that comes with that.
I’m glad you’re one of my homies. I plan to join the ranks of DSLR camera users this year and step things up a notch.
Keep on trucking!
I’m glad for that too, dude! I really enjoy hanging out with you on the photowalks — they wouldn’t be half as fun without you.
I’m looking forward to seeing you get your paws on a dSLR — you’ve really made some huge improvements in your photography over the last several months, and I know you’ve got a lot of potential with it.
Keep it up Brian
nothing less than a great blog indeed.
Best Wishes for you and your family
Thank you Antoine — I look forward to future interactions with you and your blog.
Brian thanks for a great photographic year. I don’t find every single article you write interesting for me as a starting photographer, but yet I read every single word you write. You bring everything with a lot of enthousiasm and try to communicate with yur visitors. I enjoy reading this blog and will keep doing so. All the best wishes for the new year to you Brian and all the other visitors of this site!
It’s been great having you around, Libeco. Your presence is always welcome here.
Great list! I just opned 5 or 6 new tabs.
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Congratulations on your blogs success Brian.
Congratulations on the massive success. Your stats are mind-bloggling. Well-deserved.
Happy new year from me and Jeff, Brian!
wow! what a feat! the celebration necessitates a feast! LOL.
it was only a week ago since i stumbled your site, but i already got a lot from it…and from you. (archives) ..and i thank you for that…also thank you for letting me use your tips in my class on wednesday.
it’s a big help.