Boostpost 3 month report

Well, Boostpost is now 3 months old, and its time to take a look at how it is doing. The stats for far:

Pagerank: 2
Alexa: 271K
Tweets: 55
Facebook shares: 30
Delicious bookmarks: 34


The other statistical aspect would be actual pageviews. The widget is getting a lot of attention. Since starting the website, the total number of overall hits is 1,265,039. I guess that is pretty good. Boostpost does not have a marketing budget per se. So getting anything is probably a good thing. The other positive note is the apparent growth of Boostpost:

Month	Daily Avg				Monthly Totals
	Hits	Files	Pages	Visits	Sites	KBytes	Visits	Pages	Files	Hits
Feb 2010	16064	15082	79	60	70218	765069	904	1195	226236	240969
Jan 2010	16054	14982	176	75	132682	1787972	2344	5476	464464	497687
Dec 2009	14227	10673	170	94	89555	1245787	2936	5287	330871	441053
Nov 2009	4491	4051	169	100	20145	312556	1909	3220	76979	85330
Totals						4111384	8093	15178	1098550	1265039

Each month from Nov thru Jan has seen an increase in the total number of hits. Feb is lower than prior months, however it is currently Feb 15, and Feb is a shorter month than all the other months. Regardless, the pace of activity for Feb is actually very good, and in a 30+ day month, we would very likely see consecutive growth. A couple of sites have started using Boostpost in Feb and I anticipate some really good numbers to be generated as a result.

Challenges, however, do exist. Boostpost is in a rather transient market. Bloggers change their widgets with a high degree of frequency, and Boostpost - though a useful service - is simply caught within the moving gears. So far, the result has actually worked more in Boostpost's favor than not; however, there have been cases where really great sites have elected to not continue with Boostpost. That is a shame, because I sincerely think that with full utilization - including your adsense id - Boostpost represents a new wave for bloggers to earn revenue through a vehicle which previously was a liability (redirecting traffic to another site). The good news on that front is we're beginning to see bloggers incorporate that full utilization, and expect that trend to continue.