Jalaj P. Jha

I started this blog on 12-Dec-2006 with simple aim to journal my learning. I am no SEO but when I learnt that next PageRank update (2 updates happened in January) brought me a PR4, I started thinking that way. Later I upgraded to own domain on 24th May 2007. At that time the highest pageviews on a single day was 587 and total pageviews at about 25000.

Moving to new domain brought a heavy drop in traffic as it was that time that Google took highest time for next update. The dropdown also had it’s root in my failure to note that my most of the highest viewed posts were not in Google’s index for new site. At last with Google PR update and my efforts in bringing all posts to Index paid and traffic started moving ahead.

While it took me 432 days to reach first 100,000 pageviews, the next two 100,000 pageviews took just 22 days and 19 days respectively. March 2008 witnessed highest pageviews ever 167,544 in a single month with highest pageviews 8221 in a single day.

And Alexa too started showing up the graph for my blog as I crossed Top 100,000 on two particular days (shows up when graph smoothening reduced to minimum on graph).

Though this blog still shows as PR4 in Google Toolbar, Probability is that at least the home page is indeed a PR5 as evident from the Crawl Status Page, which shows page(s) existing in “Medium” slab.

Here is the breakup of how all posts found viewership (stats as on date, as of now).

Above 100,000 views (1 post)
10,000 to 99,999 views (2 posts)
1,000 to 9,999 views (26 posts)
100 to 999 views (102 posts)
below 100 (102 posts)

I intend to sale this blog for three reasons, one because due to my other commitments I have gone slow in learning, and even if I do I rarely get chance to journal it on blog. There is too low and uneven activity nowadays. Second, I may not be able to sustain the traffic flowing-in in future. Third I have this blog hosted on wordpress.com which doesnot allow adding Google Adsense or anyother javascript code which could have monitised the blog. Most traffic to this blog flows from Google and other search engines and there are too few RSS readers. I cannot risk moving the blog to self-hosted account as I am no entrepreneur.

By selling this blog I would be giving away the entire content, administrator access to this wordpress.com blog, the domain that expires in May 2009. After the transaction is over you can remove my Administrator access to the blog and export / move or do anything with it.

Feel free to comeup with amount that you think you can pay for this blog in “as is” condition. I will continue expecting bids till 15th May (the domain upgrade on wordpress.com expires on 23rd May 200 or until someone comes up with an irresistable offer.

You can use the contact form below for privately placing your bids and Comment section for any inquiry which being public may benefit other bidders too.

Use this contact form for bidding (Private)

Use Comment form at the bottom for any inquiries (Public)

Update: April Fool’s Day is over… So let’s get back to routine