January 2013 was my first month of “real” blogging.

I pushed myself to start blogging before but never kept up with it for more than a post now and then. What had changed?

• overcoming the fear of “how should I get started? what should I write?”
• writing about my experience with startups, projects, research
• strict schedule for writing

Once you started with the first couple of posts in a row the ideas start flowing for new topics. You develop this “awareness” for interesting stuff during your daily-routine and become really good at finding things to tell from your experience. I’ll cover my learnings from starting to blog, my schedule, etc. in a seperate post the next days, as I learned a lot from reading other peoples’ thoughts on this topic before.

As I have always been asking myself all these questions before getting-starte like “where to publish my posts?”, “who is going to read them?”, “how many readers do people have?” (and a lot more questions…) I’ll publish my findings and analytics on a monthly basis and hope that it’ll be useful for others who are just getting started.

So for January 2013:

- 4320 visits / 3820 unique visitors

- 4950 pageviews

- average visit: 1 minute 20 seconds

I have written 5 posts in January:

I posted the first four on reddit and hacker-news:

- 1607 Unique Pageviews: Don’t be evil: advice for Startups using Google Adwords

- 1501 Unique Pageviews: Hacker, Painter & Understander – a guide to coding as a biz-guy

- 870 Unique Pageviews: Early-Bird vs Night-Owl: Finding your optimal workflow

- 199 Unique Pageviews: How to write research-backed blog-posts – and why!

- 66 Unique Pageviews: 10 Ways To Drive The First 1k Users To Your Landing-Page

The brakedown of the traffic in terms of its origin:

And I also started tracking the Facebook traffic which was bigger than I thought. My skepticism comes from the content that my friends usually share (videos, images, cats, etc.):

I also got some really nice comments and emails from readers. These were mostly focused on getting-started and I hope that I was able to assist in each case.

I am really looking forward to February and to continue sharing my experience as I gain so much by the effort, time and thought that other people put into their blog-posts.

Have a great start into the new month to all of you!!