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Midas Media Blog Network: June update

Remember those blog targets I set myself back in April? Never really said much about those ever again, did I? So let's revisit them now, and, in a bid to create a record for myself as much as anything else, let's try and make it a monthly update, shall we?

The good news is that both TheFashionPolice.net had its best months ever in June 2009. The bad news is that because January is always such a good month, and the traffic tends to dip off for a few months after that before picking up again, the final figures weren't massively higher than the previous Best Ever.

Hey-Dollface.com, meanwhile, had

The Fashion Police, June 2009:

660,956 page views
426,104 unique visitors

Hey-Dollface.com, meanwhile, had its best ever month in May, reaching 63,000 page impressions, but had a big dip in June, which can be mostly attributed to the fact that I was on holiday for most of the month, and so the site wasn't being updated (The Fashion Police, on the other hand, continued to publish the same amount of content during my break, so didn't experience any drop-off in traffic.)

Hey-Dollface.com, June 2009:

50,277 page views
37,631 unique visitors

Summer is always a really difficult and weird time for all of the sites, not only because I take a vacation myself, but because other people do too, so many of my readers are off relaxing somewhere rather than staring at a computer screen, and even those who aren't on vacation tend to spend more time out of doors, assuming the weather is good. Then there's the tennis, the 4th of July holiday and various other summer events that keep people away from the internet.

This summer we also launched the other blog I mentioned back in April, Shoeperwoman.com. As the name suggests, this is a blog entirely about shoes, and while it's still early days, at least I'm having fun writing for it.

Hopefully we'll have even better stats to report next month - assuming I remember to write about them, that is!

The Fashion Police named best fashion blog in the Glam Network Awards 2009!

A few weeks ago, my blog The Fashion Police was nominated in the fashion category of the Glam Network Awards 2009.  

I posted about the awards on the site itself at the time, but then more or less forgot about it, so you can only imagine how excited I was yesterday when I received an email notifying me that The Fashion Police was the winner of its category!

This is the first major award any of my sites have won, and, coming a few weeks after I decided to quit freelancing and focus on my own blogs full time, it couldn't have come at a better time. The award is voted for by blog readers, so if there's anyone out there reading this who voted for us, my heartfelt thanks: you helped made my day! (And my week, too...)

Setting Some Blogging Targets

  Well, after my declaration of a whole new start for me, including more posts here at Writing World (thanks for the encouragement on that post, by the way, everyone - it's much appreciated!) I managed to fall at the first hurdle, and didn't update here at all. D'oh.

I have no real reason for this, other than that it was just One of Those Weeks. On Monday I had my first migraine in nine months, and the after-effects didn't really clear until Thursday or so, leaving me struggling to keep up with my posts, and playing catch-up by the end of the week. This is one of the perils of being your own boss, of course, and the main reason why it's always good to have some posts up your sleeve, and saved as drafts, to prepare for just such an eventuality. If only I'd take my own advice, eh?

Anyway, things are now back on track (well, sort of...) and as I tend to be fairly goal-driven, I thought I'd try setting down a couple of goals for myself, to see if I can try and meet them in my first year of blogging full-time.