Last week I posted my blog turns a month old and showed my traffic but I never talked about any goals or what my plans where for February. I have been doing some thinking and am trying to plan reasonable goals.

My goals for the month are:

• Finish my blog design
• Get a better logo designed
• 2500 Visitors
• Write 15 posts
• Get 25 subscribers
• Comment on 3 new blogs a week

These should not be goals I cannot achieve but I still will have to work hard to achieve them. The first two items will take a lot of strain of me though.  I have not been happy with my design since launching it and I have been trying to make it better but it is not there yet.

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I announced my contest last week Comment More and Win My Contest. The top commenter would get $10 through paypal or an amazon gift card. After a week of commenting and some great comments we have a winner.

The winner is Mann3r

Congratulations Mann3r - I just sent you a email. Thanks to everyone who entered, I was able to go from 47 comments to 135. It was a big jump in comments and I even picked up a few subscribers. I hope you like my blog and keep coming back and post some comments.

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Today my blog turns 1 month old. I am amazed how the time flies but also I am realizing the work involved in running a blog. It has been a lot of fun and I will keep working on growing this site. I wanted to share my first months statistics and maybe compare it to their sites when they first started out.

For the month I have had 1,447 Visitors and 3,101 page views.

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I got around to doing some updates to the design of the site last night. I have wanted to change the footer around and update it so there where plug ins that where actually working. I am not a designer or a coder so I struggled for 3 hours and after breaking the footer multiple times I decided I needed some help. After getting the code fixed and cleaned up from my mistakes it looks good. Now in the footer you will see the top posts and top commenter’s and the recent comments box was already there. Also when I was working on the site I opened it in Internet Explorer and saw there was a box in the header for an image but the image was broke. I normally don’t use IE and FireFox doesn’t show this problem. There used to be two headers on this original theme so I imagine that why that was happing but it is fixed now.

So a few minor changes but I like that it some who my top commenter’s on the site. It gives some credit to the people who post on here.

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Over the past week I ran my first contest for a free Amazon gift card. You had to subscribe to my rss feed to enter. Also you could write a review on my blog to enter as well.

The winner is Missy.

Congratulations Missy - I just sent you a email.

Thanks to everyone who entered. I was able to get 6 new subscribers to my feed and got some nice spikes in traffic, I received 203 visitors on the last day of the contest. I hope you like my blog and keep coming back and post some comments.

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Today is your last chance to enter my contest for the free amazon gift card. You can find out about the rules and and how to enter here.

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