We’ve watched the year 2009 come and go, therefore I think it is about time to check what this blog has done in the past 12 months. First of all, I have to admit that I spent rather little time in writing blog posts last year compare to previous years. The main reason was many times, I just tweeted a line or two about my thoughts and then no longer repeated those in the blog. However, I guess I did a few good things to my blog …
First is I installed the Thesis theme – it is simply the most versatile WordPress theme in the market right now. And I also implemented a few very good plug-ins : The TweetMeme Retweet Button, the No Self Pings, the Where did they go from here etc. Those really made the blog looks a little bit more professional.
The second good thing I did to my blog was I started to post information about Amazon Kindle 2 and Kindle DX from March last year. I bought the original Kindle 2 US version and then detailed how to purchase it from Amazon, how to set it up, how to use it and how to purchase ebooks … the traffic to the blog then surged:
And finally I put the Amazon affiliation network into good use … I did not actively promote the Amazon website and products, but just link to their Kindle products pages. Surprisingly, I start getting some affiliation fee from Amazon. You know, I never thought I can earn some pocket money from my blog … In addition to the affiliation fee surprise, another thing surprised me a lot is what products the visitors bought after they surfed to the Amazon website. And here are some interesting details:
- Other than the 30 Kindle 2 and DX I sold (not bad !!), there were also around 40 e-books sold thru the blog site – and the top seller was the Lost Symbol.
- There were also over 20 physical books sold, and the best performer was the Fooled by Randomness.
- There were some visitors purchased their iPod Touch, Flip Camcorder, in-ear earphone, CDs, DVDs, MP3 from here – even though those products were not mentioned in any of the blog posts.
- But the most bizarre ones are, believe it or not, the rebounder, Digital Caliper, and even Deodorant !!
To this tiny little blog, it is truly amazing !!
M.Y. Lessons Learnt 