Technorati rank – two steps forward, three steps back

Well, we had climbed from our lowly beginnings of 983,109 to a high point of 415,722 at the old domain yesterday.
We start over today at 1,054,428.

Other stats to live up to:

• total page views at the old site – 3727 in 41 days = 91 views per day on average
• heaviest traffic day – 3 Jan 2006 – 260 hits.
• clawed our way to the top of blogsearch.google.com for both “use case” and “foundation series”, as well as “requirements management”.
• Most popular post: CRUDdy use cases and Shakespeare
• Longest comment thread: 9 – (same post)

Stats to look forward to:

• No more slowdowns of the website (now hosted via Yahoo)
• Restoring good blogsearch rankings
• A non-zero pagerank on google
• Indexing by Yahoo (part of the hosting package)
• The ability to customize the blog software with plug-ins (better stats, admin)
• Ability to do polls

Let’s try a comment poll (until I get set up to do a real one):

Which is your favorite image on the blog?:

1. The elmocerous
2. Yorick’s skull
3. The kitten
4. Write-in-candidate