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 2008) 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)

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

Update: April Fool's Day is over... So let's get back to routine

With an average of 1670 views per day over last week let's see how much time this blog takes to reach a million views.

Update 12.03.2008: The views reached 200,000 on 11.03.2008. that's average of 4545 per day for the additional 100,000 (in just 22 days), raising the overall average to 441 views per day.

Update 30.03.2008: The number of views reached 300,000 today, slightly faster that last 100,000, that's average of 5263 per day for the additional 100,000 (in just 19 days), raising the overall average to 635 views per day. Since the high average this time has high traffic in the beginning (which also put me to top 100 blogs of wordpress.com for a short period), the same speed is not expected for at least the very near future.

Update 18.04.2008: The number of views reached 400,000 today, again with an average of 5263 per day for the additional 100,000 (19 days) as happened for last hundred thousand. The overall average now is 814 views per day. Average views for the month of March was about 5400.

Update 06.05.2008: The number of views reached half-a-million today, again with an average of 5555 per day for the additional 100,000 (18 days).

All you need to do is to add code similar to that below

[audio http://wpcom.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/mattmullenweg-interview.mp3]

and you get a player that initially looks as that below

Want to hear that! Press the Play icon and the player expands playing the audio file.

Those are just the images above and the sample audio file with live player can be played below

The next new addition to wordpress.com is the increase in the free storage space from 50MB to 3GB! So without worrying about space exhausting you can add as many Images, Docs, Presentations as you like. Did I miss something? MP3, MPG.... No I didn't! the free 3GB space doesnot allow you to upload these file extensions but you can upgrade by paying $20 to get extra 5GB space and freedom to upload audio and video files.

So it's time that your reader hear, not just read.